(Training) The Southern Mountain

[Gothalk]

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Doton no Jutsu (Earth Release Skill)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Earth. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Earth Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: ---

Gothalk cringed as he approached the base of the mountain that surrounded one side of the ninja village. After finally gaining full control over his Suiton release he had become interested to learn of other types of releases, specifically the more basic variety. He could think of none better than the direct opposite of the Suiton, the Doton release. Though he knew such as journey would be easier with help, the young ninja had decided to go it alone once more. During his training with the suiton release Gothalk had first been forced to expend all of his chakara, by running back and forth over a river’s torrent surface, which his chakara molding skills at the time it only took about an hour or so before falling into the water. That is when he was instructed to swim, depleted of chakara, so that he may understand how it flowed.

The process has seemed silly at the time, but the exhaustion combined with the never ceasing waves had allowed Gothalk to get a state of mind, once that he used later to help sync himself with the technique of the release. He intended to do much the same process here but with the bluff of the cliff. Gothalk pushed his chakara into his feet and used it to claw into the surface of the cliff allowing him to stand horizontally from its base. After a moment of securing himself he began to slowly trot directly up the bluff heading towards the sun. The process was as physically demanding as it was draining on his chakara, his feet held the entirety of his weight with small chakara clasp, as the rest of his body fought the ever pressing of gravity that threatened to send him tumbling backwards.

It didn’t take long under these conditions for him to run out of chakara, and Gothalk soon found himself hugging the side of the cliff, reaching from hand hole to hand hole as he tried to pull himself upwards. As he continued the physical activity he tried to focus on the texture of the earth, its immobility, its dozens upon dozens of faucets and jagged corners. Slowly he moved up the face of the mountain his body becoming soaked in sweat from the effort. He was nearing to point of exhaustion, but he could not stop where he was without a proper foothold. Still while he climbed he continued to search for meaning within the structure’s formation, trying to understand the element on a fundamental level, however, with his deteriorating condition focusing on this task proved more and more difficult.

Further he pushed himself up the bluff, easily passing what he thought to be his physical limits until finally he reached the apex, a small clearing at the top of the mountain. With a grunt he thrusted himself onto the level ground, landing face first in the dirt gasping for air, and inhaling small pieces of rock as he did so. It was then that it occurred to him, the secret he had been striving for all along. This mountain, this structure, this gigantic boulder, wasn’t a single piece, but many. Several thousand if not million particles of rock had gathered here at one point or another, and formed the base of which he currently laid upon. Gothalk let out a small laugh rolling over to his side intended to sit up and try and regain some of his chakara for the way down, but after such an ordeal he could do little but rest, and contemplate on being rock like in nature, hoping the insight he gained would be enough to move forward with his training.

[Gothalk]

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Doton no Jutsu (Earth Release Skill)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Earth. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Earth Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: ---

Gothalk opened his eyes to see the sun was high overhead. Located high in the sky on the peak of the southern mountain, the young ninja pushed himself up to a seated position grimacing at his protesting muscles which were still sore from the climb. He had stopped to recover his energy and ended up falling asleep basking in the sun, though he felt rested, the sun had left its impression upon his skin, as well as stolen what little moisture it had. Gothalk quickly downed what was left in his canteen and stared at the impression of the village below. “So small it all seems from this height… “Gothalk commented out loud to himself, “Even the majestic tower seems dwarfed by the mountain, an interesting perspective indeed.”

The shinobi tucked his legs underneath him, and formed the hand seal of the ram as he tried to focus his mind. He had a purpose for being stranded upon this mountain and that was to better commune with the Doton Element so that he may somehow manage to unlock its secrets. As Gothalk entered into a deeper state of meditation he took an unusual turn, rather than shutting his mind from external sources, he focused on them. Reaching out he could feel every pebble stuck to his skin, and every speck of dirt mashed into his face. He could smell the dried sweat sticking to his brow, and the heat of the air slowly being absorbed into his skin. He could feel the mountain beneath him, he could feel its immobility, and yet he felt it slowly creak under its own weight.

Slowly Gothalk began to try and stretch his consciousness to its very limits, trying to feel the mass of the continent they were on, the large creators of land that held the sprawling oceans, and further more to try and imagine the world they lived upon floating through the universe. Naturally most of this was likely his imagination filling large expanses of land, but such practice helped him center his mind on Doton. As he reached the limits of his imagination, Gothalk pulled his mind backwards returning to typical meditation in which he blocked any external presence from his mind. This seemed to be a harder task than usual as his blistered skin, and sore muscles each screamed for attention and relief. Still he pushed such thoughts away as he tried to pull himself into the very center of his being, imagining himself standing in the center of his stomach.

Before him lay two rivers of energy, one of spirit, and another of body, the two sources of energy that when combined created the basic form of chakara. Utilizing a technique he had learned long ago Gothalk pulled at both stores of energy, swirling it together and forcing them to intertwine with one another. This was the determining moment, at this point the chakara was formed into either its pure sense or that of an element. Gothalk left his mind empty and tried his best to focus on the various aspects that made Doton in fact Doton. His chakara reacted, and rather than streaming together in threads, it lumped together, slowing building in the core of his being. With a quick opening of his eyes Gothalk tried to push the chakara into a pebble in front of him, and watched with glee as it slightly began to maneuver. His technique was unrefined and extremely wasteful, but he had at least discovered the basics, what remained was refining the molding technique.

[Gothalk]

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Doton no Jutsu (Earth Release Skill)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Earth. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Earth Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: ---

A few hours passed since he had first attempted his skills at the Doton release, and while there had been some progress made, he still remained barley able to effect the smallest of pebbles much less full blown rocks. As the sun began to creep towards the ocean skyline, Gothalk reinforced his hands and feet with chakara making his way down the mountain’s bluff utilizing the same hand holes that allowed him to climb up it. As he did so, in the back of his mind he thought more upon the creation of the doton chakara, wishing he could continue his training during his climb, however, the pure strain of the climb was enough to eliminate any thought beyond reaching the ground.

Eventually he managed to do so, but not before using almost all of his chakara, after a long hard day, Gothalk called it, returning home intent to come back in the morning. However, when morning arrived he found himself severally sunburnt and weakened as his muscles still tried to recover from the ordeal, so instead he sat in his small dormitory with a small collection of rocks in front of him that he had found nearby. With his legs tucked beneath him, and his hands forming the ram seal, Gothalk once again entered into a meditative state.

After a few moments he found himself within his center being, a place in which before him rose and fall two rivers of power. One was that representing his physical energies show with a healthy green glow that curved around in a cirucltory pattern around the empty space, the other represented his spiritual energy which glowed blue as it dip and rose in seemingly random patterns. With these two energies Gothalk could create the most basic of chakara, and he reached out to them to do so, and as before they began to lump together in rapid fashion, becoming a very basic, and very inefficient form of Doton energy.

Gothalk focused on this place within himself, as he thrust the energy into a nearby pebble, realizing as he did so that the majority of the chakara was merely dissipating, and only a small fraction of it maintain form once it had reach the earthen object. “Something is wrong with its form..” Gothalk whispered to himself. Determined to try the attempt again Gothalk once more pulled upon the two rivers of power thrusting them upon each other. Reacting almost on their own, they once more lumped together creating a massive blob of energy. Slowly Gothalk began to send the energy into the small rocks noting as he did so, only the chakara near the conjoined areas was what was being used.

Switching gears Gothalk released what formation he had, the unsued materials returning to the rivers, and pulled upon each source once more. This time, Gothalk mentally held the two apart from each other, only allowing small sections to meet up at a time. Doing this separated the flows of energy into small little bits which then combined with other small little bits, which all began to add up onto the same whole. The result was large rock like formation, pieced together by small little balls of chakara, opening his eyes Gothalk pushed the newly formed chakara into the pebbles in front of him, causing each in succession to raise through his command. “There…” Gothalk said, “That’s Doton’s proper form..”

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+30; Learned.

[Gothalk]

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Fuuton no Jutsu (Wind Release Skill)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Wind. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Wind Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: ---

It took several weeks for Gothalk to fully recover from his last expedition up the side of the southern mountain, however, Gothalk once again returned to the base of the enormous natural structure peering up at its highest peaks once more. The reason for his return was simple, he had mastered the elements of earth and water, all that remained were fire and air. In terms of fire versus air it seemed that the later would be the easier of the two so he came up with a mental training regiment. Much like last time he would start by expending his chakara, and the majority of his physical energy, while doing so he would bask himself in the element of which he tried to understand. Using the knowledge gained from this ordeal he would then sit and try and force his chakara into forming the element in question.

Without any further hesitation Gothalk pushed his chakara into his boots and firmly placed his foot upon the mountain. From the sole of his boot extended small little hooks made of chakara, these hooks gripped onto the dirt and allowed Gothalk to then move directly up the mountain at a brisk pace. As he ran he noted the brisk winds that buffeted from all sides, winds that slowly got stronger as he made his way to the summit. Gothalk nearly made it three quarters to the top of the structure this time before running out of chakara, at this point he switched to proceeding up the mountain using the built in handholes on the side to pull himself upwards. Near the top he began to try and focus on the gusts of wind that threatened to rip him off the side of the mountain.

Unlike water which flowed with the curvature of whatever it floated against, or rock which was built of many thousands if not millions of small dust particle, wind seemed much more abstract, but stronger. It almost felt as if the wind itself was an extension of a greater deities will, that had decided that it no longer wanted Gothalk climbing up the side of its mountain. Still, Gothalk reached the top fully coated in sweat from the effort. However at the top of the ridge he could feel the strongest breezes of all, each of which carried a cold favor from a distant cloud.

Gothlak frowned against the invisible buffeting as he tried to reach mentally out at it, unlike the water and the ground the wind was fleeting in its contact, there was enough time to feel its presence before it suddenly vanished. Discontent he sat down and tried to clear his thought sending his sense outwards focusing on his sense of touch, and smell. Even in this state the winds grasp was but a moment, a brief fury filled moment, that disappeared as quickly as it came. “I’m missing something” Gothalk thought out loud, “Surley there is some hint, about its nature I have yet to learn, but how can I learn about something I never had..” As Gothalk spoke he felt the pressure once more but upon his lips, for as he spoke he exhaled the wind itself. Realizing he had never needed to come to the mountain in the first place he focused upon his breath as he slowly drew it in and blew it back out again. “Though fleeting…” he finally decided, “The wind is in fact a pure expression of stored will power. The wind gathers its strength upon its self, and explodes in one epic display of fury..” With the secret obtained Gothalk would remain motionless as he tried to become one with tumultuous winds that surrounded him.

[Gothalk]

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Fuuton no Jutsu (Wind Release Skill)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Wind. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Wind Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: ---

Several hours passed and the sun slowly sunk into the horizon before him, covering the village below with a light amber glow. Gothalk still sat upon the peak of the mountain deep in a state of meditation, the wind’s breeze cooling his body as he tried to replicate its nature in his chakara. Still every time he attempted to force his chakara into the Fuuton release he was met with disappointment as he either flowed into sution, or clumped into doton. Luckily in such a state the chakara was easy to break down, and reabsorb into his body allowing him to continually try. Thus he sat inside his internal mind space combing his spiritual and physical energy flows again and again trying to seek to formation that would give him the ability to influence the wind.

At the moment, however, he had exited his internal meditation, and poured his mind through his external senses once more. As a breeze lightly touched him, he tried to instill upon it his presence and imagine the wind’s epic journey. Starting from the mountain, Gothalk, could feel it caress over its peak, only to fall down its slope gaining speed and blazing across the gully below. Moving quicker than Gothalk could imagine it swirled over a village he did not know the name to, before falling down, and winding through various streets only to fly back up into the sky, allowing a bird’s eye view of a massive expanse of forest. Floating gracefully it gripped upon leaves and sending them dancing, smoothed the hairs of a galloping deer, and threw up dust in a parade of triumph.

Focusing Gothalk once more returned to himself, vocalizing his experience, “Perhaps fury isn’t the proper description, but rather excitement in general…” Gothalk formed his ram seal, a motion that helped him meditate, and entered back into the depth of his very being. Here like before, he visualized his various streams of chakara running before him, twin rivers of green and blue, each representing either spiritual or physical energy. With a mental grasp, Gothalk pulled upon both of the river’s simultaneously pulling out a long strand from either source. At the moment of combination the bundle of energy would determine what type of chakara it was, namely, it was formed into the type of element it would be used to control.

As far as Doton, or Sution were concerned Gothalk could easily manipulate the strands of energy to form in the pattern of their elemental base. The issue with forming Fuuton based chakra was simply he lacked the knowledge of how the chakara was form. Thus he called upon the knowledge bestowed upon him during his meditation and tried to focus on the meaning of wind’s nature and hopefully impress upon his chakara the will of what he was trying to do. The two stands recoiled, nearly falling back into their respective rivers, only through pure brute force of effort Gothalk managed to hold on to each them straining under lack of cooperation, “What…What is this.” Gothalk thought never experiencing the phenomenon before, “Im losing control, the energies..” After a few moments of shock the streams of energy returned to their normal behavior, however, Gothalk remained skeptical that the issue would not return.

[Gothalk]

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Fuuton no Jutsu (Wind Release Skill)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Wind. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Wind Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: ---

Gothalk continued to practice the technique to no avail throughout the night, noting the rising sun several hours later. “It seems I have dragged this on for far too long..” he said out loud as he stood to stretch his arms high above his head. Being seated for so long had caused them to cramp, and he winced in the pain at the moment. Warily he looked down the bluff of the mountain as he began to imagine his journey back to the village. With a deep breath he pushed his thoughts to the side swung over the edge of the cliff and proceeding to try climbing down. Rather than walk straight down, he forced his chakara into his fingers and toes to allow him better and easier griping of the rock, as he tried to put less strain on his tired limbs. As expected, despite this, his muscles screamed during the beginning portion of the decent, however, after a moderate amount of time enough blood had passed through them that they began to only dully ache allowing the ninja’s mind to wonder. Thusly, as he climbed further down his thoughts turned to his previous training. Every time he focused upon the futon element while trying to mold his chakara, his energies seemed to recoil, and he would struggle for several minutes to regain control. “There has to be something I am still missing” Gothalk thought out loud as he reached the bottom of the mountain, warily noting the early morning risers already hard at work.

Pushing through the village he returned to his modesty dormitory and slept for the remainder of the day awakening in the deep silence of night. His arms and legs still sore form the journey last night, he struggled to move out of bed, and once he had done so noted that his mind was filled with the rust of sleeping so many hours at one time. Regardless he returned to the base of the mountain and he remained content at sitting at said base and beginning his meditation once more. Slowly his mind drifted as he entered his inner world in which he stood before his two rivers of energy. With caution he pulled forth a strand from both and began to try and focus on the wind and impress his will upon his chakara. Once more, the chakara recoiled, and Gothalk strained to retain control. However, in his still fogged mind he lost complete control and both rivers of energy seemed to spasmodically slam into each other curling into one form briefly before disappearing all together. With a grunt Gothalk exited his meditation to pinch the bridge of his nose in frustration. “Of course,” He groaned out loud, “The wind isn’t something you forcibly control, but coax in one direction or the other, that is why my chakara has been reacting the way it has. I shouldn’t have tried to forcibly control it...”

Gothalk grit his teeth and formed the ram seal once more entering into his deep meditative state. “Ok…” he thought to himself, “Lets try this once more..” flexing his hands he brought forth a strand of his physical energy, as well as his mental energy and focused on the feeling that he believed wind to represent. Once again the energies recoiled, but rather than try a maintain a firm grip he allowed them convulse and tried to guide them together as they slowly slide into one form. Once it reached this state Gothalk reached out to it, and pushed it forward beyond himself, and began to try and wrap the energy around. Much to his satisfaction, he felt the sensation of a light breeze as his chakra circled around him. Moving forward with the technique he pulled more and more of his energy into it, and the more he did so the stronger the winds became. With a smile Gothalk sunk back into the ground behind him, finally he had molded his chakara into the Fuuton release.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

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[Gothalk]

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Fuuton no Jutsu (Wind Release Skill)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Wind. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Wind Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: ---

Gothalk whistled a light tune on his way back to his room, content with the progress he had made at creating the Fuuton chakra, however, considering the three days that have passed he had little progress in the field. Though he could now mold the technique, he could hardly manage to form a useable amount of it without draining his entire resource of chakara. This fact dangled in the back of his mind, but he didn’t let it dampen his spirits, after all today was a victory. He had proceeded halfway to the local sushi stand before realizing it had long since closed for the night. Tucking his hands enter his elbows he shielded himself from the night’s chill as he began to decided what to do with the rest of the night.

Deciding there wasn’t much to be done, at such a time at night, Gothalk merely grabbed some dry food from his dormitory, ate it quickly and returned to the base of the southern mountain. Slowly he tucked his legs underneath him and began to focus on the task at hand, learning proper control. His mind quickly faded into his inner sanctuary, and there he sat in between two glowing rivers of power, both represented a different energy that once combined created chakara. Slowly he pulled at the energy, letting it freely and almost spasmodically slam into each other before weaving into useable futon based chakara. Gothalk noted once more its inefficiency and tried again to allow the chakara’s to combine.

The issue lied in that much of the bonding portion of the chakara was wasted as they slammed into each other. However, trying to take control of it would cause the chakara to squirm out of his control and prevent them from combing. So Gothalk did the best he could to guide the chakara’s spasms, giving a gentle push or nudge here or there so that they landed together and began to intertwine with one another. It was not an easy process, as the energies seemed woefully unpredictable, however, the more that Gothalk attempted the technique the more and more patterns he began to pick up on. When his physical energy began to bend right, he learned to push his mental energy left with a twist so that it caught its whiplash at a good angle and so on and so forth.

He learned the tricks and the paths his energy took slowly but surely, not over the course of a couple hours but rather over the course of a few days. During his initial training he learned little control, but after day in and day out of using this technique and only forming the futon chakara Gothalk began to become confident in his ability to mold it into creation at a mere moment’s notice.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

Learned~

[Gothalk]

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Saton no Jutsu (Sand Release Skill)
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Sand. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Sand Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: Must have Fuuton no Jutsu (Wind Release Skill) and Doton no Jutsu (Earth Release Skill).

Weeks passed before Gothalk once more returned to the mountains located south of the village. Unlike before, he headed towards the upper portion of the barricade where the grassland was taken over by rocky badlands. The reason for this was due to his research, having mastered the art of wind, water, and earth the more reasonable step was to seek information on the katon, or fire, release. However, upon studying the fire release he had stumbled upon another, Saton no Jutsu the Sand Release Skill. A combination of the wind, and earth the saton no jutsu technique broke down to controlling particles of sand moving them freely in the air. The idea intrigued Gothalk enough to abandon his previous study for it.

In theory the technique sounded quite simple, merely combine the techniques at the same time, and you should get the desired effects. Thus, he headed towards the badlands near the southern mountain to begin the first phase of his training. As normal his initial plan to learn the technique was to expend as much physical energy as he could, while emptying his chakara storage. During this time frame his mind would be prone to being influenced by the element in which he focused on. The entire process could most likely be replicated by having information passed on, or simply deeply meditating, but this method was tried and true, and through it Gothalk had mastered other releases so it seemed a fitting place to start.

After some time hiking deep in the badlands Gothalk found himself surrounded by a comfortable ring of sand and rock. Being water country the area was not gigantic, but large enough he do the training he had planned. Unlike the previous release, there was no obvious excerise to do here, so he had to be creative. Gothalk lurched himself forward, extending his arms down into sand and balancing the rest of his body above him. In this position he used his arms in place of his legs to walk back and forth across the spanse of the large sand pile. It quickly became apparent this was a poor time to do this specific training as the heat in the sand began to quickly build blistering the heels of his palms as he moved back and forth.

Determined Gothalk continued his awkward gait quickly becoming covered in sweat. It hadn’t taken long for the physical exertion to run its toll, and he now ran chakara throughout his limbs to help keep balanced and reinforce his strength. Mixed in the sweat was a mixture of grit of sand, and dirt that surrounded the ninja, a mixture that quickly found its way into the most uncomfortable places. In fact every time the wind blew in seemed to carry a small amount of the grainy substance either up his nose or in his mouth. Eventually Gothalk’s patience wore out, and he dropped to the rocky sand with a thud groaning as he felt the sharp edges of the wind worn pebbles in the sand. With his energy depleted, he grabbed a hand full of sand letting it trickle from his fingertips in front of him as he tried to get some sort of an idea on how mastering the element would be accomplished, but all he could see were the small pieces of rock that made the massive pile.

[Gothalk]

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Saton no Jutsu (Sand Release Skill)
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Sand. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Sand Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: Must have Fuuton no Jutsu (Wind Release Skill) and Doton no Jutsu (Earth Release Skill).

Gothalk slammed a clenched fist in the ground next to him, pushing himself up into a seated position as he did so. “Well then.” He said out loud as he gripped his chin with his other hand, “It doesn’t seem that difficult I will just try and mold some Fuuton, and Doton, chakara at the same time. They should just work together in unison.” Gothalk slid his hands together forming a ram seal as he slowly delved into the center of his mind. Though he had mastered both techniques he wanted to focus as much as he could on the molding, now that he knew the slightest reaction of his chakara, could hold the key to mastering newer techniques.

Before him, in his mind eyes, lay two rivers flowing with power, the green represented his physical energy, and the blue represented his mental energy. Combing the two in different ways created different types of chakara, which could be used for different elements. Though the rivers almost ran dry at the moment Gothalk expertly grabbed a strand from each location pulling it in towards himself before pausing. “I’ve never molded two chakara’s at the same time before…” he realized holding both strands of energy in either hand. He sat there for a few moments deciding on his next course of action. Being in a spiritual realm Gothalk focused on his spiritual representation of himself, and elongated his torso from which two more limbs sprouted from each side. The two new hands reached out and both pulled upon their own stands of power of physical and mental energy respectively.

Using the previous mastery he had learned Gothalk then combined the pair of strands his original hands in the formation of Doton chakara. Slowly he broke the energy apart, into smaller, and smaller bits before clumping it together into a massive pile. Meanwhile he used his lower set of hands to form the other energy into Fuuton chakara guiding the bands of energy into slamming into one another until they were completely woven. With the two formation of chakara set in place in each hand Gothalk then moved too combine the two, only to feel them repulsing one another. “What… What is this..combine..” He thought as he tried to wind-up the futon chakra around the doton, however as before the two dissimilar elements merely rejected one another in what seemed a fundamental level.

After several minutes of trying to force the chakara to converge Gothalk gave up, and returned to the physical world, where he tried to summon both his wind and earth chakara at the same time. The issue became he could not use both, as he feared, outside of his body within the same moment. While the mixing of chakara was all internal its use required normally hand signs as well as verbal cues to summon specifics molded chakara from within the body. As such he could not preform both hand signs and verbal cues of both wind and earth chakara at the same time. Befuddled Gothalk let his chakara dissipate entirely; realizing his entire approach to the technique was off. What was worse is that after the exercise and chakara molding failure he was left nearly drained of his energy. With a feeling of a day wasted Gothalk retreated back home to ponder on his failing, hoping to find the secret to unlocking this technique.

[Gothalk]

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Saton no Jutsu (Sand Release Skill)
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Sand. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Sand Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: Must have Fuuton no Jutsu (Wind Release Skill) and Doton no Jutsu (Earth Release
Skill).

Gothalk awoke the next day with renewed vigor, and after a quick meal, headed back to the sandy badlands near the southern mountain. As he approached he removed his boots so that he could feel the sand between his toes, and made his way to what he determined to be the area with highest sand to rock ratio. Slowly he sunk to the ground, and clasped his hands in front of him focusing his mind inward so that he may enter his internal realm where he could visualize the flow of his chakara. It was here that began once more to pull upon his energy stores and create futon and doton chakara and try and combine them together.

He tried to wrap the futon around the doton, only to see the futon chakara bend away from the dotons. He tried to encase the futon chakara in a shell of doton, and was largely successful at it, but within the shell the futon remained a separate entity. He tried to splice the two up and down, but each time they seemed to resist one another refusing to combine. The entire experience brought his mind backwards to his time in the academy, one day the teach had brought in two objects of which he called magnets. These objects would cling to each other, if they faced the correct direction, but if you turned them opposite, they would repel each other to no end. It’s exactly how it felt like trying to force the two elements to combine into one.

Gothalk eventually opened his eyes to see the sun high overhead, noting a half a day passed with little to no progress. Distraught by this he laid back down in the sand behind him staring up at the sky as he contemplated his issues. He had thought to return and read more on the subject, but the books in the library were dry and really didn’t contain how to preform technique, but more the tactics behind using them. He supposed he could ask one of the jounin teachers, but being in kiri it seemed difficult to find one who had learned the technique. That and he really didn’t want to be bothered learning from someone something he should be able to figure out on his own.

Gothalk continued to ponder about the magnets and try and relate it to his current predicament. “Those magnets, each side dictated a specific energy, Doton, and Fuuton are specifically energies within themselves… its not as if I can turn them upside down and make them something else entirely… “ Gothalk grasped a nearby stone idly throwing it up in the air above him, “Maybe that’s it, maybe there’s a way to form them differently that I don’t understand. Something I didn’t try before… but… how…” The young ninja grimaced as he sat up out of the sand turning his eye towards the rocky mountain to the south of him. “Perhaps I should go back to my basics and try and re-teach myself both element releases, maybe theres a different way to create it, which will make it compatible with the other.” His decision made Gothalk stood from the sand and began to walk towards the mountain, wrapping his hands in bandages as he mentally prepared to once more scale its face to the top and try and discover the secrets behind the Saton No Jutsu.

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[Gothalk]

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Saton no Jutsu (Sand Release Skill)
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Sand. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Sand Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: Must have Fuuton no Jutsu (Wind Release Skill) and Doton no Jutsu (Earth Release
Skill).

Gothalk grit his teeth as he reached his hand above him, grasping a stone and using it to pull himself further up the bluff of the southern mountain. As before he tried to focus on the elements around him, mainly the earth, as he made his quick assent to the summit point. The time before last he climbed this mountain, he had discovered the basic secret behind forming doton chakara, and now he sought to learn even more than before. The reason before this was that he needed to form the chakara and somehow combine it with futon chakara to form sand chakara. It seemed as easy enough task but as he climbed further up the slope he began to slowly realize that he wasn’t discovering any secrets to the technique this way.

Eventually he reached the apex peak of the mountain and settled into its summit, looking down upon the village with a determined glare. The climb had left him both, physically drained as well as depleted in chakara stores. Normally this allowed him to become in tune with nature, but every time he attempted to do so, he merely gained the same feeling he had during his first trip up the summit. Distressed Gothalk sat down crossing his legs underneath him and tried to focus on his inner being. Once inside he sat in-between his two rivers of energy eyeing them and yet not ready to pull upon their power.

Ignoring the futon aspect of the Saton no jutsu, Gothalk tried to focus on the Doton. Specifically when he had trained in the badlands earlier in the day, he remembered looking at the sand and seeing that it was comprised of several extremely small rocks. This made sense in the doton universe, as when Gothalk attempted to make Doton chakara he broke the chakara into tiny bits and slowly combined them together, until they formed a massive stone like shaped chakara. Gothalk’s mind moved as he imagined a giant stone in front of him with wind billowing at its sides. The stone remained nearly untouched, as the winds grasps failed to move it. “It makes sense..” Gothalk said out loud as he watched the seen unfurl, “The earth and the wind are on two different levels, not at all compromising with one another.” Gothalk shook his head, “So whats the seceret a smaller amount of doton, and more futon? That will be little helpful… I am supposed to be capable of moving large quantities of sand, and increase its density… at least according to the books.”

Gothalk cleared his mind removing the rock, and imaging sand in its place, this time as the wind blew, it picked up the small amount of sand and the two danced together suspended above the ground. Gothalk watched intensely finally cluing it together, “The amount is the same, the formation of the earth chakara is what’s different, not less, just broken up, like it is when unformed, but formed. “ The ninja nodded and lifted up his hands sucking in two strands of the energy that lay before him once more, “Something tells me, this will be harder in practice than it is in theory..” He said out loud as he began to try and form the chakra notably failing for now.

[Gothalk]

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Saton no Jutsu (Sand Release Skill)
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Sand. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Sand Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: Must have Fuuton no Jutsu (Wind Release Skill) and Doton no Jutsu (Earth Release
Skill).

Clenching his eyes shut Gothalk tried to focus on his inner world, specifically he tried to focus on the straining strands of his physical and mental energy of which he held both in imaginary hands. They had begun to act frayed and wild as he started to reach the limits of what chakara he could muster. Still he tried to cut off small portions of each and force them into small little balls which he rolled together to create smaller blocks of doton energy. Normally it was an easy feat to accomplish, but he was trying to take the same process and narrow its size about ten times. Resulting in him dealing with such small amounts of chakara the task became mind numbing, and a lot of it went to waste when he tried to over extend it. There seemed to be a fine line between the ratio the size of the physical energy, and the force that he used to manipulate it. To much and the chakara would dissipate, to little, and it would unravel. mastering this prove more difficult than he had anticipated.

Eventually the sun made its way fully passed the horizon settling a cool night over the village below, and chilling Gothalk to the bone. Opening his eyes Gothalk grimaced at the pain he felt inside himself, it seemed there would be physical limitations in obtaining the preciseness he was seeking. Content with his progress for the night, Gothalk slowly made his way down the mountain and into the sleeping village, before finding his own bed and sleeping till noon the next day. When he awoke Gothalk returned to the badlands from which he had trained before. It may have been more pleasing up in the summit of the mountain but the chakara it would use to make it up to its peak would not prove worth it for the training he had planned today.

After some time he made it to the same spot he had trained in before and sat down in the sand slowly wrapping his legs underneath him before focusing on his inner chakara once more. Swiftly he pulled a long stream of his physical and mental energies and began to splice them into smaller pieces before forcing them together. He had learned the night before, that trying to do too many at one time was mind boggling and he worked to do only a few pieces at a time for now until he further mastered the technique. Again and again he sliced his chakara up, combing it to form small pieces of doton, and releasing it once he had done so. Hours passed as he continued this task only taking a few breaks for food, and water, before returning to his chakara. Over the time he managed to get the pieces of chakara down to the smallest level he could physically manipulate, and had become proficient at creating the smaller version. Still, Gothalk noted, the smallest he could make translated into the size of a pebble, not a grain of sand. Silently he worried that such progress, while outstanding, would not be enough, but continued to try and move forward ignoring this thought.

Once he had the technique in hand, Gothalk moved to the second step of the process, mass creation. Specifically he needed to perform the technique various balls of chakara at the same time, in a speedy manner. Thus the next day Gothalk returned back to the same place, and focused his chakara once more, and proceeded to produce as much of the pebble sizes doton formed chakara as he could manage before running of energy all together. The task was gruesome and ended with Gothalk having to take several breaks during the days of this training but finally after about a week he managed to preform the technique with the same relative quickness as he could forming Doton chakara the way he had originally.

[Tieren]

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[Gothalk]

Used 35 points from 2014 revamp to complete training