The quiet mind walks unnoticed(Open training)

[~Emi~]

(OOC: This is not a private training thread as I'm in the open in Amegakure's streets, I will however post regardless of who's turn it is, as this training thread is so I can gain some more techs before CE. So those joining, do it and see if u can keep up, otherwise I'll just post anyways.)




Continues on with the training from 'innocent accompany the immoral. ||T||Private||'


Emi:

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Chakra Suppression Technique
Rank: B
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A technique designed to hide the users chakra.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot perform any chakra related technique.
Description: Using expert chakra control the user is able to suppress their chakra levels to a bear minimum. This makes it impossible for chakra sensing types to detect the user. Dojutsu that can see chakra will not be able to see the user’s chakra signature. They can still be spotted by normal sight methods.
Limit: Must be a Sensor.

Zetsubô:

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Chakra detection
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu/Passive
Effect: The animal companion can sense a person's level of chakra.
Special: ---
Drawback: Has very limited range. Is not very precise.
Description: Utilizing an animal's senses, they are able to sense ones power level by 'feeling' there chakra. They can only tell if the chakra level is lower, the same, or higher then there masters and has a range of 10 meters. Cannot be used for tracking, being the animal cannot move while detecting the level of chakra since it takes so much concentration.
Limit: Any type of animal.

11/60 Emi | 10/30 Zetsubô


Emi was dragged through the streets of amegakure, the water splashes to the sides as he glide through it with a high speed. Even though the situation was very much serious, he couldn't help but to enjoy himself. The people around him gave him surprised looks and he could sometimes hear a person scream at him to slow down or to look out. Emi had to jumped several times to avoid carts or slow moving animals in the way, which made it even hard for him to keep a track on a good spot to punch in the breaks and stop zetsubô. But as they turned for the fifth time into an alley, he noticed that the ground had less water on it, so he used some chakra to make him stick to the ground and then he pulled in his vines as hard as he could, trying to make Zetsubô stop in his tracks. The vines really got strained as the force in them was immense, but Zetsubô was stopped in one pull.

I'm sorry zetsubô, but your not allowed to hunt rain ninjas. Also, why did you even do that?

But Emi knew the answer, it was something special with that ninjas chakra. To make sure he wouldn't strangle his companion, he released the grip slightly and removed some of the vines from its neck. Zetsubô growled a little as he walked back to Emi, still with its head in the direction of where the ninja had ran off. But now when they were all alone again, Zetsubô appeared to calm down as he laid down on the cold stone street and Emi sat down next to him. By the sudden interest in chakras, Emi knew that Zetsubô previously hadn't experienced the feeling before, so it had to be confusing for him. Emi's hand rubbed the back on the big beast as he started to think of ways of improving that ability.

We're really area a matching pair, aren't we zet?

Emi knew that the best way to train both of their newly discovered abilities, was to do it together. As his hand wandered to Zetsubô's eyes, Emi closed his own and started to make some deep breathing. The most important in this technique would be the breathing and the calmness. So even though he kept on thinking of new ways of increasing the strength of the ability, he tried to let go of his thoughts and focus a little more on his breathing instead. Even though it was so basic to only focus on one thing, and to breath at the same time. Emi found himself weird deep breaths that wasn't filling his need for air, and the breathing felt forced and out of rhythm. So as Zetsubô turned his head and looked on Emi, he didn't know if it was as he was able to lower his chakra, or if he started to get concerned about him.

Don't worry Zet, I'm just trying a thing.

But the animal didn't appear to listen or if it was that he didn't understand, because he stood up on all four of his legs and licked Emi in his face. The action was so distracting that Emi lost his focus on the breathing and had to wipe slime off his face instead. The action was so random that Emi couldn't help himself from laugh a little and patted the big animal on its neck. As Emi returned back to normal in Zetsubô's opinion, he sat back down again and allowed himself to be patted and since he wanted to relax, he leaned towards the building to his right. But as Emi's handed wandered from Zetsubô's neck to his eyes yet again, making him blind, he tried to get that small hand away from his head.

Calm down Zet, I'm trying to see something. Relax and clear your head.

Even if Zetsubô didn't understand what Emi said to him word by word, he still understood the main concept of it, so he allowed Emi's annoying small hands rest as his eyes as he sniffed the air to try to discover possible threat to them. Almost immediately when Emi had covered Zetsubô's eyes with his hands, he noticed that the beast's muscles, breathing and pulse got relaxed and it was almost like if he was sleeping. So Emi split with two of his fingers to see into Zetsubô's eyes, and saw that they where still open, so he closed the fingers again. A little impressed that the beast had succeeded to fall into such a relaxing mode, but Emi also got a little bit annoyed and jealous as he had such troubles with falling into meditative states. But he sat right in front of his new companion and leaned his head down on Zetsubô's and tried to copy the beast's breathing. Hoping that would calm him down when he had something to go after.

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Emi: +10; 21|60.
Zetsubo: +10; 20|30.

[~Emi~]

21/60 Emi | 20/30 Zetsubô


The seconds passed and even though the rain was chilling them both down, Emi found it quite pleasant as it made his body a more sleeping mode and his physical sense was numbed. He tried not to think about what time it was as he didn't want to know how long they were sitting there, but when he started to feel that his breathing was in the same rhythm as Zetsubô's, he made sure that his focus remained on the breathing as he stood up from the ground and removed his hands from Zetsubô's eyes. Even though his physical calmness was ruined slightly as he picked up a piece of cloth and tied it as a blindfold around Zetsubô's eyes, he knew he would have to do things while trying to suppress his chakra anyway. But before he did anything else, he waited after he had tied it to his companion and made himself calm down again.

I don't know If you'll understand this Zet, but I would like you to find me only by that detection of yours.

The words probably was futile to the ears of a beast, but Emi hoped the meaning got through as he picked up a couple of day old fish pieces of a nearby trashcan. To make sure Zetsubô wouldn't follow the scent, Emi rolled the fishes in the mud before putting them into his cloak pockets. Even though Zetsubô had remained calm, he still had turned around to face Emi with his head, like if the sharkboys direction was known to the beast. A small smile escaped Emi lips and he lost some of his focus on his calm breathing, which made Zetsubô immediately turn his head as if he was looking Emi in the eyes. A small curse was send out into the air as he realized what had happened, but he didn't allow himself to think to much about it, as it would only make it worse.

Now, find me Zetsubô

Even though he said it, Emi stayed for a couple of more seconds, just to make sure he didn't haste it. If he would stress about any part of this, Zetsubô wouldn't have any problems at all to find him. So he took his time, relaxed his breathing and focused on nothing in particular. Emi then took a couple of careful steps, and made sure not to care if Zetsubô moved or not, but was to his great surprise able to walk away from within the hearing distance without his companion following him. When he had turned around two corners, Emi looked around and found a inviting pole to sit on about 17 feet up into the air. It was a little slippery to sit on, and since Emi didn't want any chakra, he had to make sure he had both of his hands on it to avoid falling down from it. Emi then closed his eyes and concentrated on his own chakra.

Come now Zet, come and find me

To make sure Zetsubô understood him, Emi whistled a high note to get the big beast's attention. But since he wanted his companion to search for his chakra signature, Emi made sure to really increase his chakra amount circulating his body to the max by starting to form the seals to create the mud creations while sticking to the pole with some more chakra. He could really feel the difference as the chakra started to rush through his body, making his entire being vibrate of energy. So when he heard the heavy steps from his friend and he had to lower it again, he got a little sad. But the training was important for him, so he stopped the seals and took a firm grip of the pole again to avoid falling. Emi then tried to enter the same breathing rhythm he had just a few seconds ago, hoping he'd be able to calm down enough until his friend got to him.

Here comes the real test, if he cant find me with the blindfold, I'm good enough to at least fool him.

When the steps got louder and he knew his friend was about to start hearing his heavy and deep breathing, Emi forced himself to breath slower and not as loud. Something that made him believe it wouldn't work was that he was afraid his constant thoughts on Zetsubô and his hopes on what would happen next would make him less relaxed and therefor easier to find. So Emi closed his eyes and tried to detect his own innate chakra. It wasn't that hard, as he found a big amount of it hiding within his heart. He didn't know if it was a good place to hide it, but he would have to find one at least, so he focused the chakra he could find split up in his body and tried to send it as close to the heart as possible. But as he figured out that he now was extremely focused on something else than his breathing, he noticed that he wasn't as physically calm as he had hoped to be, and the steps of the incoming bulette was closing in on him. Zetsubô appeared to have found a track, which was leading him in the direction of Emi.

[KoKoKo]

+10 +10

[~Emi~]

Zetsubô:

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Torakkingu Nioi (Tracking Scent)
Rank: [D], C, B, A, S
Skill: Skill
Effect: An animal companion hones their sense of smell to such levels that they may track an opponent.
Special: N/A
Drawback: Certain animals cannot progress to the higher levels of this technique do to their lack of acute scent abilities. Animals with unremarkable scent abilities, such as the bird, can only learn up to the B ranked version of this technique.
Description: The user of this technique gathers their natural scent abilities, using them to track an opponent. The animal catches the scent of the tracked object or person, and from there follows the scent trail. With the D ranked version, the user can only track a scent ten days old. Each rank higher that is trained increases the time frame by ten days. This means that a user with the C ranked version can track a scent twenty days old, while the S ranked version can track a scent fifty days old. This technique may be used to track humans, objects, or even herbs. However, when tracking an herb or poison, the user can only track an herb or poison of the same rank of as their current level of this technique. The user can only track an herb they have encountered in the past. The user must have encountered either a poison itself or the components making it up in the past in order to track it. This technique increases the user’s chance of finding an herb by five percent. This amount increases by a further five percent at each rank, so an S rank user has their chance of finding an herb increased by twenty five percent. The user can track an opponent over various terrains, including grassland, hard earth, and undisturbed snow and sand, and still water. When tracking another human being, the user has a thirty percent chance of catching a scent while in the same region, or a ten percent chance while in an adjacent region. A user must have at least one post between each post asking for a scent roll. This percentage increases by ten at each rank, so the S ranked version of the technique allows the user a seventy and fifty percent chance, respectively. Once a scent is successfully caught, and the user is in the same region as the tracked victim, the user has a twenty percent chance of finding them. This percentage increases by ten for each rank of this technique learned, so the S ranked version offers a sixty percent chance.
Limit: Must be an animal with a high sense of smell.

Emi: 31/60 | Zetsubô 0/10


The panic started to rise in Emi as the big animal got closer, which made his chakra levels to increase more than they had done before. Since the chakra aura appeared to have increased in strength, Emi had become an easier target to find for Zetsubô, so the big animal's footstep got a little faster as it turned into the final alley and walked towards Emi. But as Emi saw Zetsubô, he noticed that the animal was smelling in the air, as if he didn't track by the chakra signature, but with his scent. The fact that he no longer was discovered due to his lack of control made him relax a little and he made a quiet sigh as he leaned back on the pole. But as he did, the fishes in his robe pockets were making small bumps towards his back, which made him remember he had still got them in it. Emi smiled a little as he got to think of a useful plan to fool his friend.

You think you know where I am thanks to that smell, do you?

Emi pulled out almost half the amount of fish he had saved and started to put it on the pole. The idea was to make the pole smell so much of fish, that he himself would be able to sneak away to a new hiding place. When the fish pieces was in place, Emi let go of his firm grip of the pole and started to climb as quietly as he could on the building facade. As it was several small items like flowerpots and lamps placed in the windows, Emi had to really look where he placed his legs and hands not to nudge any of it and make any sound. The climb was making him a little more pumped up and the adrenaline started to flow throughout his body, which made him more alert and more energetic, but he also felt how his chakra started to pour out from the core and fill his body.

I need to get away from the fish fast and calm down.

With a quick glance at his companion, Emi noticed that Zetsubô was indeed interested in the fish hanging on the pole, but as Emi's chakra levels had appeared basically out of nowhere, the animal seemed curious about that too. So Emi braced himself and jumped of the building and unto the next, by using the force he landed with, he used it to jump away from that building too. After he had distanced himself to Zetsubô without using any of the chakra in his body. He sat down and draw a couple of deep breaths, eager to lower the chakra amount running throughout his body again. Emi sat down on the ground with his legs crossed, closed his eyes and had his hands in his own concentration seal. The main priority was to calm himself down physically before he'd gather the chakra remains in his body and store it in his core.

So, I'm now hiding from an animal that could detect both my smell and my chakra aura. Great, this will be hard.

But Emi had to clear his mind from all the thoughts but the sound of his steady breathing, the pulsing of his heart and the focus he had on the decreasing amount of chakra hiding in his body. To make sure that his focus could be a little more concentrated on the chakra, Emi placed his hands holding the seal in front of his mouth and had his breath warm his hands. It was a simple solution and he felt how his breathing calmed down without him thinking the slightest about it. So Emi located the chakra in his limbs and forced it to move to the chakra core around his heart, he hoped that the fact that every living being had a lot of chakra in their heart would make it less obvious that he had a higher chakra amount. The chakra at his heart also appeared to be harder to detect, as he felt how some of his energy always appeared to hide away as the chakra entered the core.

Maybe I should be a little careful of doing things like this, It might be bad for my heart.

But he quickly removed the though from his mind as it would only distract him from his goal, and because he really didn't mind small risks, as the whole ninja life was about risking ones life. When he felt that he had succeeded in hiding most of his chakra, he heard a very distinct sound of Zetsubô finding the fishes and rip it apart from the pole. The sound was quite gruesome and a pretty clear image popped in Emi's eyes, it wasn't disgusting him, but he got a short lack of focus.

I really need to learn how to do this even when not completely focused on it.

It wasn't something that he thought would be easy, as he now was struggling to keep his chakra levels low enough not to scream out to Zetsubô where he was. But he had to master how to conceal it before taking the next step, so he screamed out and whistled to Zetsubô, calling him to come to him. Emi was surprisingly able to do that without having his focus flicker even the slightest, which strengthen his beliefs that the technique really would able to be mastered to such a degree he would barely need to think about it. The sounds from the alley nearby indicated that Zetsubô no longer was in one spot, but was now moving towards Emi with the fish pieces hanging from his gap all the down to the ground, on which it now was dragged on.

[KoKoKo]

+10 to emi and +10 to ac

[~Emi~]

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Torakkingu Nioi (Tracking Scent)
Rank: D, [C], B, A, S
Skill: Skill
Effect: An animal companion hones their sense of smell to such levels that they may track an opponent.
Special: N/A
Drawback: Certain animals cannot progress to the higher levels of this technique do to their lack of acute scent abilities. Animals with unremarkable scent abilities, such as the bird, can only learn up to the B ranked version of this technique.
Description: The user of this technique gathers their natural scent abilities, using them to track an opponent. The animal catches the scent of the tracked object or person, and from there follows the scent trail. With the D ranked version, the user can only track a scent ten days old. Each rank higher that is trained increases the time frame by ten days. This means that a user with the C ranked version can track a scent twenty days old, while the S ranked version can track a scent fifty days old. This technique may be used to track humans, objects, or even herbs. However, when tracking an herb or poison, the user can only track an herb or poison of the same rank of as their current level of this technique. The user can only track an herb they have encountered in the past. The user must have encountered either a poison itself or the components making it up in the past in order to track it. This technique increases the user’s chance of finding an herb by five percent. This amount increases by a further five percent at each rank, so an S rank user has their chance of finding an herb increased by twenty five percent. The user can track an opponent over various terrains, including grassland, hard earth, and undisturbed snow and sand, and still water. When tracking another human being, the user has a thirty percent chance of catching a scent while in the same region, or a ten percent chance while in an adjacent region. A user must have at least one post between each post asking for a scent roll. This percentage increases by ten at each rank, so the S ranked version of the technique allows the user a seventy and fifty percent chance, respectively. Once a scent is successfully caught, and the user is in the same region as the tracked victim, the user has a twenty percent chance of finding them. This percentage increases by ten for each rank of this technique learned, so the S ranked version offers a sixty percent chance.
Limit: Must be an animal with a high sense of smell.

41/60 Emi | 0/30 Zetsubô


When Emi was able to see Zetsubô again, he was glad that the blindfold was still on, so the training still had a point. But as Zetsubô walked into a container with a loud bang, Emi couldn't help but smile when the beast stumbled back out on the alley street. He took a couple of quiet steps out from his hiding place, certain that the beast wouldn't see him, and started to back away from him, slowly and with calm motions not to disturb his focus. As Zetsubô started to smell the air, Emi picked out a small piece of fish from his upper cloak pocket and threw it unto a garbage bag. The distraction seemed to work as Zetsubô turned his head in the direction and then ran over to it and started to smell a little on the fish. But the animal didn't appear very interested in the small piece, and started to walk around a little while smelling around himself to find a new trace.

You're smart, that's good, but I had hoped that the fish would work longer.

The fish was no longer anything he could use to fool Zetsubô, and it was actually helping the beast to find Emi, so when he passed a trashcan, he dumped the rest of the fish. An overwhelming stench came out from the trashcan as he opened it and his first reaction was to hold back his food. But as he stepped back a little, he realized he could camouflage his own scent with it. So he hesitantly reached his hand down into the bin and smeared it with a little of the liquid on top of the garbage. His face displayed pure disgust as he brought the hand back up and started to smear it over his clothes. A chill went through him and he quickly backed away from the bin when he was certain the stench covered his own smell good enough. His mind was unclear due to the smelling clothes, and he doubted his chakra was as low as it had to be, so he hurried to move away from the area.

This training is probably coming to an end soon, it's not even that much about sensing my chakra anymore, he's just trying to find me.

The procedure to calm himself down and hide in the shadow was starting to become almost second nature to him now, and he was able to focus a little more on clearing his mind. As the smell was so overwhelming, Emi allowed his head focus solely on the smell of his clothes and tried to accept it as an ordinary smell to make sure he didn't rejected it as much. When he was able to maintain a calm breathing without losing his focus, and started to locate the remaining chakra in his body. But as he was able to gather a little too much chakra in the space in the core he had close to his heart, Emi tried to find any new area with a hidden reserve. Even though the body had hundreds of possible hiding areas, he decided to try if the brain would suffice as such a reserve. So he tried to send some of the chakra to a small spot in the brain and concentrated it into a small slot.

I didn't know I had this much unused chakra in my body

Even though he was able to gather some chakra into the spot in the brain, it was way less than the chakra contained in the reserve at his heart. Something that did bother him though, was the fact that the chakra reserves kept on leaking chakra into his body even if he was perfectly calm. So he even after he had calmed himself down and successfully hid the chakra, Emi still would have to force himself to gather the small amounts leaking out into his body. A little frustrated that something as hard to grasp as water drowning his crops. So to allow himself to work on some containment system, he allowed the chakra he had store in the core to flow out in his brain and further throughout his body. The energy-chock mad Emi twitch and as a chill went down through his spine, he shook his head twice before focusing completely on the core again.

Come on, this shouldn't be this hard, I'm way better than this.

When he only had one core to focus on, the borders remained relatively intact, which made him relax a little as he no longer had to gather the chakra anymore. Since he need it to be more stable, Emi started to weave the surface of the chakra into a thin web that were to cover the whole core. At first he made the web quite basic, with the holes in the web a little to big to catch that much chakra from leaving. But Emi used that layer to make sure the core would be stable, and when he had made that layer, he made a much tighter web, to keep the chakra in. He didn't fool himself that it would be anything perfect, but as he finished the second layer and continued on with a third on, he noticed that the chakra amount leaking out from the core was basically non-existing. Before he was able to finish the third and final layer, he heard a couple of heavy steps before a cold head bumped into his back. When he turned around and faced the big beast, Zetsubô started to growl and smell the air around Emi and then his clothes. The scent was unfamiliar to him, but something told Emi that Zetsubô still could detect some trace of him inside the stench of trash.

[~Emi~]

Emi 41/60 | Zetsubô ?/30


Emi pulled the big beast closer to him and opened the blindfold with a smile. The training might have been a little mean to Zetsubô, as he might not have understood what was happening, but Emi was satisfied with the result. After he had given his friend some of the fish from the surroundings, he forced the animal down on the ground as he closed his eyes. His training wasn't complete, and he wanted to make sure he finished it by nightfall. The core by his heart seemed to still be intact, but had some minor leakages. So Emi moved his hand from the animal and used it to form the known concentration seal again. Since there was no way of forcing the chakra back in without risking damaging the walls, Emi focused on a spot on the sphere and started to make an entrance.

Even though it's suppose to hold the chakra inside, I might still need to send some more inside. I do regain chakra as I rest after all.

But as an opening would risk making the leak even worse, he took a few seconds before he decided how he should do it. If he made the inside of the "door" to the core bigger than the outside, the force pushing from the inside would keep the opening closed without any effort from Emi's side. The effect was similar to a cork, but he would have to make the difference in size the much more greater, as the shell around the core was to thin. But as it also was a weave rather than a solid mass of chakra, Emi would need to make an edge on the core around the entrance before carving it out. The process wasn't hard and took just a couple of seconds to make a firm frame around it. Emi tried it out a little by sending some of the extra chakra and push on the edge before accepting it as solid.

Now for the carving.

As the chakra weave was so thin, he made sure to be really careful as he had the chakra from the inside dig its way out in the circular motion he had decided on. When he had reached almost halfway through, Zetsubô stood up and distracted him, which resulted with Emi slipping with the chakra, making a small crack in the surface. A curse crossed Emi's lips and he hurried to fix the crack before to much of the chakra stored in the core would leak out. His companion walked around him sniffing on the trash around him, like if he was looking for something interesting, and it didn't take long before Zetsubô set off and tilted over a couple of trash cans as he caught something. Emi shook his head without opening his eyes and filled the rest of the crack with some solid chakra wall. He would have to have that part as web next time he made the technique, but as he now was learning, he settled with almost perfect.

This technique is something I really will need some seals for.

To shape chakra was something he had done plenty of times, but it always used to be using some kind of secondary element. Just to take a raw material, bring it to life and to shape it by force of will alone. So to find proper seals for a technique using only chakra to shape a web of chakra with another quality than the raw version was quite a lot harder. Emi started to sign the twelve different seals one by one, very slowly and as he formed them, he took a long time to think back on what they all represented. A lot of them did have some kind of connection to what he had to do, but Emi was able to filter it down to four different seals. The order of the seals were the main thing, and would change the effect a lot, and since the details were important, then Emi made sure not to haste it.

One mistake, and the chakra might damage my heart.

Even the most talented ninjutsu user did mistakes all the time when they created new ninjutsus. So when Emi started to decide on a combination that would work like he wanted it to, he started to get scared. His pulse started to rise, which made the pressure inside the core increase. So to avoid any dangers happening while he was only preparing himself, Emi released the chakra out into his body again. He screamed out of the pain as the core's walls broke down a little to fast, and some of his veins close to his heart got burned by the massive amount of chakra pouring out from the shell. It didn't take long before Zetsubô came rushing towards Emi and started to poke on him with his head. Emi took a couple of strained breaths while he forced himself to hold the first seal in the combination with his shaking hands.

Here goes.

Emi didn't hesitate at all, and made sure that every single seal was performed to perfection even with his shaking hands. Since he didn't want to stop out of fear of getting burned again, Emi made sure to perform the seals as fast as he dared. When he reached the final seal, he held it for a couple of seconds, before he breathed out. When he barely had any chakra left in his lungs, he activated the technique and had his chakra activate the seal combination. Then he felt how the chakra started to rush in his body, it moved to fast....

[Umehara]

+ 19 Emi
+ 20 Zetsubo

[~Emi~]

Emi:

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Kirigakure no Jutsu (Hidden Mist Skill)
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A Skill where a user uses the water around them to create a massive mist to fill around the user.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: A skill which creates a very dense fog that descreases the surrounding visibility to near zero. It produces an environment perfect for a silent assassin who follows an opponent through sound. This mist can not be blown away by any type of Wind Jutsu.
Limit: Water Release

Emi 0/10 | Zetsubô 20/30


The effect of the technique made him draw a quick breath as the feeling of the sudden chakra loss was overwhelming. But as his control returned to him, Emi laughed as his whole body had a tingling sensation spreading through it. He jumped up unto his feet and stretched a little with his arms and shook his legs before he tried to relax. It was an unnatural way to be for a human being with chakra, but Emi knew that to have such control over ones own energies was a way to become a deity. Zetsubô seemed to be exited as he saw the joy in Emi's expression, and the pair started to notice how the environment quickly shifted. A fog appeared out of nowhere rather quickly and caught them off guard. Even if they were almost one feet from each other, neither one of them saw the other after barely one minute.

Zetsubô, we need to get back home, we're cold and hungry anyway

Emi heard a low growl as confirmation that the beast had heard him, but as usual, Emi knew that his friend might not understand the meaning behind the words. But he heard the steady steps of Zetsubô when he started to walk down through the alley. The beast didn't appear to follow Emi by any shadow in the mist, but by the scent of the rotten thrash scent he still had on him. But something was troubling Emi as the mist surrounding him appeared unnatural. Even if he didn't suspect that it was a ninja doing the fog, he couldn't rule it out as he knew there was an entire village that loved using techniques like the one he saw now. The master of assassination, the ninjas from kirigakure. Emi knew that he wouldn't be able to prevent him from being attacked unless he started to use his chakra again, so he stopped and formed his concentration seal and deactivated the technique.

I need you to be perceptive of the surroundings Zetsubô, someone might be nearby.

When he was finished and was about to start walking again, he felt a powerful bump hit his thigh. At first he was about to draw his polearm, but then he remembered that he still had Zetsubô behind him. A little embarrassed that he was so jumpy, he focused his sight forward and kept on walking. Due to the limited vision, he kept on walking into things and almost walked off an edge. Emi hated the feeling of being so exposed, so he started to try to find some solution to reduce the density, or at least the radius of the fog. So while he was still walking, he send out a couple of pulses of chakra out into the air, trying to fill the moisture with his own chakra so he would be able to manipulate it.

Maybe I should learn how to make these fogs too, it's a handy tool to surprise someone.

But as the closest mist had absorbed some of his chakra, Zetsubô made a surprised sound and started to walk off to the right. Emi could hear how the beast walked around in a circle and smell the air as if he was looking for something he clearly was able to smell. But Emi just shook his head and focused back on the surrounding fog. He reached his arms to the sides and had them to gather the surrounding chakra. To make sure that he didn't force the chakra out of the tiny water drops, he made sure to collect them as slowly as possible. His surroundings started to get a little clearer, and small water orbs was gathered around his arms. The water was cold and made him get goosebumps, but he continued on to gather more and more, until he finally had a full five meter vision through the mist.

This was rather easy

Emi then send away two more pulses and extracted another 15 meter with mist, making the surroundings quite interesting. It was is it they were in the eye of the storm, but as the wind blew, the fog started to cover the area again. So Emi used the short time he had to test if he was able to make some mist on his own. Since the water around his arms already contained his chakra, he just used the chakra to start dividing the spheres. He splitted the spheres down in half 30 times before he was satisfied with the result. Emi then had the chakra spread out in the air, taking the very small water drops with it. Since he had taken the amount of water from the cleared area, he didn't settle until he had covered the whole area with his own mist. The change was small, but he could sense which mist was his, and which wasn't.

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Emi: +10; Learned.
Zetsubo: +10; Learned.

[~Emi~]

Emi:

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Mind's Eye of the Kagura
Rank: D, C, [ B ], A, S
Skill: Passive
Effect: The basic technique needed in order to learn all Sensor Techniques.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The basic yet complex ability that allows Sensor's to find, sense, and track individuals over a vast range. This ability is done by the user closing their eyes and opening their mind's eye in order to see the advanced chakra systems around them. At A rank and above, Sensors no longer need to close their eyes in order to access their mind's eye. The user of this jutsu can only sense those up to the equivalent class rank of the rank they know. (i.e. If the user knows up to B rank in this jutsu they can sense characters of all the way from D to B rank. The basic range of this technique is ten meters.
Limit: Must fulfill all requirements to become Sensor in order to learn this technique.

Zetsubô:

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Torakkingu Nioi (Tracking Scent)
Rank: D, C,[ B ], A, S
Skill: Skill
Effect: An animal companion hones their sense of smell to such levels that they may track an opponent.
Special: N/A
Drawback: Certain animals cannot progress to the higher levels of this technique do to their lack of acute scent abilities. Animals with unremarkable scent abilities, such as the bird, can only learn up to the B ranked version of this technique.
Description: The user of this technique gathers their natural scent abilities, using them to track an opponent. The animal catches the scent of the tracked object or person, and from there follows the scent trail. With the D ranked version, the user can only track a scent ten days old. Each rank higher that is trained increases the time frame by ten days. This means that a user with the C ranked version can track a scent twenty days old, while the S ranked version can track a scent fifty days old. This technique may be used to track humans, objects, or even herbs. However, when tracking an herb or poison, the user can only track an herb or poison of the same rank of as their current level of this technique. The user can only track an herb they have encountered in the past. The user must have encountered either a poison itself or the components making it up in the past in order to track it. This technique increases the user’s chance of finding an herb by five percent. This amount increases by a further five percent at each rank, so an S rank user has their chance of finding an herb increased by twenty five percent. The user can track an opponent over various terrains, including grassland, hard earth, and undisturbed snow and sand, and still water. When tracking another human being, the user has a thirty percent chance of catching a scent while in the same region, or a ten percent chance while in an adjacent region. A user must have at least one post between each post asking for a scent roll. This percentage increases by ten at each rank, so the S ranked version of the technique allows the user a seventy and fifty percent chance, respectively. Once a scent is successfully caught, and the user is in the same region as the tracked victim, the user has a twenty percent chance of finding them. This percentage increases by ten for each rank of this technique learned, so the S ranked version offers a sixty percent chance.
Limit: Must be an animal with a high sense of smell.

Emi: 0/60 | Zetsubô 0/80

The mist quickly reshaped itself to cover the pair and it started to become thicker until Emi was barely even able to notice a blurry hand if he held it right in front of his own face. Even a normal human would understand that the mist was not natural, so Emi started to listen on the surroundings. Both his and Zetsubô's footsteps was too loud for him to make anything special out as the water on the street splashed. So Emi estimated where his companion was and held out his hand to stop the beast. He could feel how Zetsubô smelled on the suddenly appearing hand to see if it was anything he could eat before he licked it twice. He recognized Emi smell, something that were going to make it so much easier.

Zetsubô, please be still.

The alley was completely quiet and every raindrop sounded as high as a stone hitting a wall. But then suddenly, he heard a step from a person walking the roof. Emi rolled forwards and drew his polearm. Seconds afterwards he rolled away, a small group of ninjas appeared to swipe the area he had stood at trying to attack him. "They goes by sound". Emi closed his eyes and tried to locate the ninjas in the mist, but to his surprise, he was unable to see more than two. Since he knew he heard the steps from at least five, he started to be a little suspicious of the situation. "What if the rest were clones?". But when he waited and listened, he noticed that there were more people running around on the walls and rooftops than the auras he was able to detect.

We need to detect them Zet, do you mind smelling them out while I try to force my inner eye to see them?

The beast had walked up to Emi again as he smelled where he was. When he was asked a question he didn't understand, he growled a little and tried to determine if his master had told him to attack the shadows. As they appeared to be hostile and almost had attacked Emi, Zetsubô decided to track them down. So he gave Emi a quick look before he started to walk away from the young buy, sniffing in the air for the shadows. Their scent had been faint and the rain and the mist was making it even harder, but his masters life depended on it, so he gave his nose his full attention as he tried to find his way through the fog.

The men are clearly ninjas, but they are not high ranked are they?

Even though he knew he couldn't afford speaking loudly, he had to say it out loud to make it clearer to him. The auras around him seemed a little confused when he had whispered, as if they heard him or if it was too hard to determine where the sound came from. The confusion amused Emi, and he wanted to use it to his advantage, so he picked up a shuriken from his robe. Emi then threw it so it landed a couple of inches away from the weakest one, trying to avoid him seeing it, but instead react on the sound. The move appeared to have succeeded as the ninja quickly jumped away as the shuriken hit a metal object a feet from the ninjas head. Since they didn't appear to be prepared for someone to resist them, Emi could hear a quiet swear coming from the one the shuriken almost hit.

Yup, I won't go down that easy.

Even though this was still a whisper, he made sure that the words could be heard by ninjas, hoping they didn't have any extra sensitive hearing that could detect his location by that. Emi then picked up another three shurikens and threw them on different distances to the ninjas, trying to scare them a little as they didn't know where he was. But he quickly noticed that his tactic wasn't having the effect he wanted, as shurikens and kunais started to hit the street around him. They didn't have any known direction, so they made them rain down upon on the alley to be able to hear some kind of sound from Emi. The first three waves was luckily not very close to Emi, but the feeling of not knowing where the kunais and shurikens would land frightened him, and as he heard a couple of them sound like they were headed in his direction, he instinctively jumped backwards and held his polearm in front of him, ready to protect him from the projectiles.

[Umehara]

+10 Both

[~Emi~]

Emi 10/60 | Zetsubô 10/80


Since he wouldn't be able to deflect the shuriken and kunais in any normal manner, he started to spin the polearm and had it parry them all. But as he had moved, he noticed that the two other auras started to move around as well, they had heard him. Emi kept his eyes closed, so he would be able to detect their chakra, and he followed their movements. When the projectiles stopped coming towards him, he allowed his polearm to slow down until he had it rest in his right hand. The both auras stopped as they got relatively close to him and all the steps around him stopped in their tracks, except for one persons. The lonely person was about 7 meters in front of Emi and walked towards him. The frustration of not being able to see his opponent Emi started to pour in some more chakra into his system, forcing himself to see a clearer picture. But the individual in front of him kept on being undetected, he did however see another aura on one of the walls, so the auras he now could see made a perfect triangle.

They're well trained assassins, they've even made a formation based on strength.

Emi jumped back a little more, until he felt how he hit a wall. The enemies around him laughed quietly as they now started to become a little more confident. The steps in front of Emi stopped, and he could hear a blade being drawn out of a sheath. The fact that he would have to fight while being blind made him furious, it was as they were scared of his power, even though they outnumbered him with at least 4 to 1. But as the steps came back, Emi started to get a vague image of the aura in front of him. It was as if someone held a filter in front of it, making it blurry and vague, but he breathed out as he finally knew at least some distance to his opponent. "If they doesn't want to fight me as a human being, then lets fight them as a superior being."

Do you actually think you can beat me one versus one?

He said it in attempt to mock his opponent, and he appeared to have succeeded as the ninja stopped for a brief moment before he came rushing towards Emi screaming a battle cry. This was exactly was he hoped for, Emi was now able to hear his opponent, but also see his vague chakra aura, making it a lot easier to anticipate attacks. But to make sure he wouldn't get hit anyways, he would use big motions as he wasn't able to see the long blade that was swinging against him. So when the opponent was within the range and the blade came swishing towards his upper chest, Emi jumped up to the right. He stayed on the wall and waited until the other ninja's aura came jumping after him before he'd make a frontal flip pass the other ninja as he tried to attack his back with his polearm.

Kill her

The man exclaimed right before he screamed out of pain. The polearm had sunk into the man back shoulder and even though the wound wasn't very deep, the damage it had caused to the muscle seemed to be greater than expected. When Emi landed on the ground, he finished the motion with the polearm, yanking it out from the shoulder and painting both Emi and the street with warm blood. An evil laugh erupted from Emi's throat as he now knew that the man had nowhere to hide, Emi's nose had caught the sense of blood the second it filled the air. He didn't know if he just imagined the change, but when he caught the blood scent, the opponents aura shifted to red and became a little stronger.

You can't escape me now

Emi knew it wasn't good to underestimate his opponents, but he was starting to see a little better now, and the mist didn't appear to hinder him as much as it hindered them. But he now noticed that the other three auras was starting to go walk down to the ground while heard the sound of seven swords being drawn. He secretly hoped there were at least one with more than one edge, otherwise he'd be very outnumbered in the matter of seconds. Emi realized he would need to increase his vision further, so he took a couple of deep breaths and send in some more chakra into the technique. Even if it wasn't a technique based on chakra amount, but based on chakra control, he couldn't help but hope that it would gain strength from more force as well. The second the chakra was release within his body and entered his brain, he felt the power surge as a mind numbing pain and he lost his focus on the technique. His vision was completely black and he started to get frightened as the enemies closed in on him. "I will have to fight this one out blind" He though as shadows appeared in the mist.

[Umehara]

+10 Emi

(( Didn't notice any tracking scent training on Zetsubo. D: ))

[~Emi~]

Emi 20/60 | Zetsubô 10/80
hehe, ya i know I was getting a little too carried away with Emi the last post ;D But here's some extra Zetsubô)

The mist swallowed Zetsubô as he walked away from his master, he didn't like the lack of vision, and the fact that the alley stank didn't make it any better. The humans had put out several hundreds kilos with old food and old broken things, which all of them had some kind of human scent attached to them. So as he walked through the deep water trying to find any proper source of smell, he had to find all of the hidden small things around in the alley. The walls were something that annoyed him, as he constantly walked into them, making small cracks in the facade. But as he bumped into an unusually soft wall, he felt a strong human scent coming a couple of meters to the right from him.

I found one of the shades.

If anyone would hear Zetsubô, they would just hear a roar, but he rushed towards the scent and tried to pounce on it. But as he was about to bite through the flesh of the human, he could feel how his teeth sank deep into a sofa cushion. He was very irritated as he walked away from the human stinking sofa, but that only made him all the more determined to find the shadows. But then he suddenly heard a couple of weird noises from where he left his master, it was as if metal hit stone, and a lot of metal too. Zetsubô raised his head and tried to catch any scent from the area. The rain disturbed his nose, so he really had to focus on the direction and try to filter away all the tasty half rotten fishes and the alike. When he was able to find reach the area he had left his master at, he suddenly smelled blood. Afraid that his master had gotten damaged in any way, he rushed back as fast as he possibly could.

Are you enough ninjas this time?

Emi couldn't help but try to sound confident as he was about to start fighting. Because he had to make them believe he was stronger than he really was, it would however backfire if they were smart enough to attack simultaneous. When they were almost within attacking range, Emi singed a couple of seals and sank down in the ground using the underground fish projectile. The cold mud surrounding him was making him feel so much better about the situation, he was finally in his own element and he'd be able to counter attack. When Emi had reached 10 feet deep, he stopped and enjoyed the calmness for a few seconds before he tried to open his inner eye for the area around him. It appeared as if he just had to calm down from the energy surge to be able to use it again, and a couple of auras appeared above him.

Wait, what is that?

A more feral aura appeared into his vision, running like if it was chasing or running away from something. But in the thick mist, he couldn't figure out what creature was able to run that fast and still not being able to see anything. The aura was rushing directly at the four ninja auras and didn't even hesitate a little as it got closer, it was as if it even was accelerating as it got closer to them. But then Emi remembered that he actually had his companion on the surface. he quickly scanned the surroundings area after his friend, but there was not any life signs within a 100 meter radius except for those right above him. Emi cursed a little and returned with his focus back on the charging creature, and noticed that it did indeed have about the same size as Zetsubô.

I need to help him

The other auras didn't appear to have noticed him yet, so Emi stretched out his arms in the ground and send a small amount of chakra to the seeds in his arms, legs, stomach and shoulders, making the vines shoot out in a rapid speed. It didn't take long before the vines had covered most of the ground beneath the ninjas. Emi didn't know how it looked up there, but as the ninjas auras reacted, they knew that he was gone, but the charging beast was still not known to them. So Emi used the window of surprise and send his vines to the surface, trying to grab a couple of the auras he was able to see. He was able to catch two of the auras he saw, but also one of those still invisible to him. Since Emi hadn't fortified the vines to make them harder to cut down, he send all the rest of his vines to the already caught ninjas, trying to keep the grip on them even harder to escape.

[Umehara]

+10 Both.

[~Emi~]

Emi 30/60 | 20/30 Zetsubô


Two of the ninjas were a lot harder to hold than the last one, and it appeared the weakest was some kind of ninjutsu user, because his chakra started to flow in a different way. To avoid him from escaping, Emi had three of his vines to form a pike and penetrate the ninja in which i believed was the chest. He could feel the tug as they went through the flesh, but he was a little disgusted as he could feel the intestines get stuck on the vines, and a image of the gore appeared in his mind. Even though he enjoyed the fact of ending lives and prove to the world he was superior to the common man, the fact that some people died in vain, so quickly and so humiliating was still hurting him and he really hoped he'd die so much more heroic than that. The dying ninjas auras was weakened, but appeared to cling on to life, so Emi send in his vines and had them spread throughout the ninjas body and start draining its chakra.

I need to make them leave Zetsubô alone.

But as Emi started to send out more and more of the vines to cover a larger area above ground, he felt the pain of when someone cut down one of the vines. The auras ran around the damaged vine, but he knew that it had to be one of the invisible ninjas that had rescued his friend. The pain in the vine was aching, and he had to retract it and let it be underground until he was able to use it fully again. But to avoid having them cut down again, Emi made the vines gain some armor while they grew longer and longer from the ground, trying to force the ninjas to jump back up to the roofs, or at least the walls. Zetsubô aura was closing in quickly on the ninjas, and before Emi knew it, Zetsubô had entered the combat with the ninjas. The chaos was instant, and the ninjas auras was very fast to leave the ground and try to get to higher grounds.

The shadows, I can see the shadows, I'm going to eat them

Zetsubô rushed in on the area, unable to see anyone of the shadows, but the scent was clear and he was even able to smell a large quantity above him. When he looked up, he was able to see a long vine sticking up from the ground and pierce one of the shadows. Some of the blood dripped down next to him and he stopped to take a good smell on it to determine what the shadows really were. Zetsubô wasn't impressed by the weak blood and turned his focus towards the running steps that seemed to be climbing the houses around him. Since he was incapable of climbing, he ran to the root of the wall and started to growl at the scared ninjas that didn't even want to fight properly. But as the mist still was a little to dense, they disappeared rather quickly from his sight, and he had to return to smell their whereabouts. They appeared to be quite a lot, and they were stinking more of sweat than humans normally did.

Good, I got them out of the way

The scare tactics had worked better than he had expected, and he was able to follow the attacking ninjas auras as they rushed out from the battlefield and from his range. So Emi retracted his vines ground the ground and rubbed the hole in which the damaged was in before he started to ascend to the surface again. He made sure not to open his eyes so he could notice if the ninjas came back. The air around was however not as cold nor wet anymore, so Emi guessed that most of the mist had disappeared. It didn't take long before his companion had walked up to him and licked him with a its big and stinky tongue. Emi had one of his vines wrap it around Zetsubô's neck which he then pulled in as he tried to walk to the street.

Come Zet, we need to get to a little more populated area.

Zetsubô struggled a little as he stood and smelled on one of the kunais that had been thrown earlier, but when Emi shouted on him to follow him. But as they finally had reached the mainsteet, Emi had Zetsubô lead the way so they would walk into anything while he still had his eyes closed to make sure that the enemies wouldn't come back and attack them once more. The surrounding quickly got brighter as normal people started to walk pass them and Emi was even able to detect a couple of ninjas with quite much higher chakra amount than most he had seen. He then started to feel a lot more comfortable and allowed his companion to stop and smell on the passing auras from afar, and Emi laughed when anyone was scared from his friends appearance.

[~Emi~]

Emi 30/60 | Zetsubô 20/80


The joy of walking around in an area totally lit up with life forces was something that brought pleasure to Emi. It was as if didn't need to worry about being assassinated anymore, since it was so many people around. And the fact that he had started to be able to see see peoples souls with a mental eyes made his self-confidence rise. Emi did however want to learn to make out a little more details from the surrounding life signs, as he could notice several shifting colors and sizes in the auras, but he had no idea of the meaning of them. If he did, he suspected he might enter the humans souls and gather information, hidden away from the rest of the world, just to be revealed to him. Even though he was able to detect things up to one hundred meters away, he still had to limit his field of vision to just look on a small area, as it contained too much life signs for him to concentrate on.

Zetsubô, I think we're safe now

The big beast jumped a little into the air of joy and started to run around Emi trying to get as close as possible to the passing people so he could smell them as good as possible. But he was still restricted by the vines, which made him unable to go more than 20 feet from Emi. Few of the people around him did however allow Zetsubô get close enough to actually smell on them before the ran screaming away. Emi enjoyed the commoners reactions and couldn't help to start laughing as a big grownup, based on the deep voice he had, was surprised when Zetsubô reached him and started to sniff at his his rear and screamed like a girl. It took him a few moments before he had calmed down enough to actually stay still and Emi could detect a change of color in the back of the aura as the man seemed to draw a weapon of some sort.

If you attack either my companion or me, I will counter attack

It wasn't as much a scare tactic as much as it was a dare, since he Emi still had his eyes closed, he appeared to be a small blind girl with a big pet. Emi noticed that two more auras joined the first one, obviously some of his friends wanting to help him fight the duo. But Emi wanted until he noticed that the men charged him before he stepped in between Zetsubô and the men and had his vines exit the holes in his body. The growth of the vines was explosive and after a few seconds he had already caught them all and wrapped the vines around their bodies. As the men started to scream out curses, Emi had the vines act as gag on them. They started to bite on them, but as Emi started to push the vines down throats, they stopped and began to cough instead.

Neither one of them are the ninjas, right Zet?

The big beast walked over the captured men and started to nibble a little on their feet, but Emi then pulled him away and told Zetsubô once again to smell on them. The companion still didn't understand the words, but he still started to smell on them of curiosity of the special scent they had. Zetsubô wanted to learn what it was, the strength was unusual as it seemed to be some kind of liquid. As Emi lowered them towards Zetsubô, he was able to locate that the scent came from their mouths and a couple of small spots on their jackets. It was if they had consumed a larger quantity of the strong smelling liquid. When he got closer to the men's faces. he saw that their pupils were unusual big, they appeared dizzy, their teeth was yellow and their clothes were barely covering their bodies. So Zetsubô backed away as the men was of little interest to him, and he even was nauseated by their smell.

So they weren't involved at all then?

Emi actually got a little disappointed when he realized he wouldn't be able to take them to the village prison. So Emi threw the men away when Zetsubô walked back. "I need to find those ninjas". Emi then remembered that he had wounded one of them quite severely, so he started to smell the air. He had to send in some chakra into his nose, but after short while, he was able to locate the damaged ninja, and a smile spread across his face. One of the vines wrapped itself around Zetsubô's neck as Emi started to run towards the ninja, still with his eyes closed to make sure he'd be able to detect him before he'd be noticed. Emi slowed down slightly and focused on the damaged ninja with his inner eye.

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+20 for the little blue girl!

And her puppy, too. Nice puppy. Nice... alien... clawed... land-gouging puppy. Good boy.