Playground Zero (T|O)

[Father 'Suke]

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You're almost there

[Tora Tsume]

95/100 ((SERIOUSLY?!))

Walking away from the scene, Tora smiled, noticing something in the corner of his eye that could bring him the final little bit to mastering the jutsu. He always hated those annoying birds, black as the night sky and annoyingly loud. Crows were always disturbing, so obviously no one would mind if they were gone. A lovely notion - killing the devil bird and learning the jutsu. Two birds with one stone. Or one. Whatever.

Turning around to face the bird, Tora smiled, pulling out his coin once again. Luckily, for such a simply creature, the coin was rare enough to cause the chakra 'snap' to be big enough to kill it. So, walking forward, forming the seals, Tora made sure the bird could see him as he showed it the coin, smiling. The genjutsu was cast and the only thing left was to lure the bird and toss the coin next to it.

Sure enough, the bird flew away. Luckily, Tora could work on it's instincs to lure it in and let it fall prey to his jutsu. Crows loved shiny things, and Tora's coin was pretty shiny. Tossing it high into the air, letting it reflect the sun all around, enough to let the crow see the shiny object. And as expected, soon enough, the bird flew in to grab the coin, yet the flight was interrupted, causing the bird to fall down, dead on the ground.

"Disgusting..." He said as he approached the bird, picking up his coin and walking away, not even daring to touch it and check if it was in fact dead or not.

[Father 'Suke]

+4
+5

Enjoy yourself with the newfound toy

[Tora Tsume]

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Freezing Glance
Rank: "A"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: User's eyes become wintry tombs that destroy the spark of life in those who the user meets in their stare.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: Affects 1 living creature. The user is able to perform this technique at a distance of 7 meters plus 6 meters per class level. The duration of this technique lasts for 5 rounds per class level. This technique may be negated. Each round the user may target a single living creature. It must make a save or be frozen in place. Frozen creatures are entitled to an additional save if attacked, but this provides no immunity to the gaze. A creature that has been immobilized with a freezing glance, then restored to motion after an attack, can still be the target of the same Freezing Glance in a later round. Though the gaze attack ends rather quickly, frozen creatures remain immobile for 5 minutes per class level. In some cases, this can cause serious damage through exposure to the elements.
Limit: Must know the Enchantment Perception.

0/100

Walking away from the dead bird Tora began contemplating another technique. Sure, the coin bit was nice. It was good to have someone under his thumb, but what good could it be if he couldn't really intimidate them and make them freeze in place with just a glace? What sort of effect would he have with just words? He wanted something more, something powerful that would allow him to control his foes in a way that they wouldn't believe.

Luckily he had just the jutsu in mind to do the trick. However, it was a bitch to master. Aside from implementing one of the toughest perceptions he had in his arsenal - which meant he would need to work even harder to master it. Unlike any other perception, this implimentation of Genjutsu worked on a target's senses, causing the target to get 'enchanted' - which would pretty much put him under Tora's control as it were.

In order to master the jutsu, he would first need to understand the basis behind it. Basically he had to understand that details the drove the Genjutsu to cause the effect. Before going over to the seals, Tora decided to review the idea that was generally applied when dealing with this technique. The simple idea at the base of the technique was disrupting the target's chakra, in a way that would cause some sort of disturbance in his senses.

When disrupting one's chakra, there were several ways to do to. In this particular case it was a stare, rather than direct contact or even simply looking at someone. In this particular case, the stare into one's eyes caused the effect. This meant that the eye contact was to cause the effect, and in order to create this he had to understand how the chakra flow would be disrupted by nothing but a stare. This would mean that when looking into someone's eyes Tora would need to make the propper preperations in order to disrupt his chakra in that way.

The effect causing the chakra disruption was the signal percieved by the target. The idea was that with the stare, the signal sent from Tora would cause enough of a disturbance in the target's chakra in a way that would cause him, in this certain situation to freeze. How it would be done was to be figured out later, and for now, the Genin was happy to understand the underlying meaning in this Genjutsu, after all, even something so small would mean a lot in the long run when learning this further.

Walking over to the patch of grass overlooking the park, Tora was ready to continue with his jutsu, to move forward and turn it into another lovely technique to use and intimidate his opponents, should he encounter any.

[Father 'Suke]

+10

[Tora Tsume]

10/100

His eyes closed. Before he could begin working on the seals and casting the Genjutu, trying it out and testing for any faults in it, the Genin wished to first figure out the meaning of having his stare diisrupt his chakra, work out on how each set of hand seals would work, and maybe even do some actual training with it. Either way, he would need a little thought before begining to train it all.

Generally speaking, when percieving a signle with the eye, it iterperts the image and sends it to the brain for proccessing. Genjutsus usually make the image seem different, by affecting the proccessing process, and thus having people see illusions of sorts. This however dealt with a different part - disturbing the actual image percieved rather than the analyzing of the immage. After all, if a false image is percieved, the chakra pattern in one's body would be inevetably disrupted during the proccessing.

In order to send a different signal to the target, Tora would need to manipulate the chakra around him and make it so the light that reaches him would bounce off in a weird way, causing any person looking at him to get a distorted image, which would mess with their chakra. It was complecated to do and required a lot of chakra. However, in this particular jutsu, it's the eye contact that would make it, so it simplified the procces, making it so the light bouncing out of Tora's eyes would be the catalyst for the Genjutsu.

Before trying it out, Tora decided to toy a little with his chakra, perhaps see if he could create the same effect of reflecting light from his eyes in a distorted manner, that would cause anyone recieving that light with their own eyes to have some sort of a reaction. So, to do that, he had to mold some chakra, to focus around his eyes and allow the stream of his chakra to move around his eyes and create some sort of screen - invisible to the naked eye. However, looking at it with some sort of a coloring chakra device, would show something like a monocole on each eye.

That wall of chakra, which Tora had to concentrate on in order to hold still, was effective in what it did, however, no one could really predict what sort of a reaction it would cause in anyone looking at it. So, guessing it was somewhat different, and with that, Tora had to finish, since without the handseals to guide the Genjutsu in the right direction, he could make something that might even demage himself, which would be counter productive.

Letting go of his state of mind, allowing the chakra monocoles to fade away, Tora was ready to begin the actual seal training and bring himself to perfection with the jutsu - maybe even master it. Though there was still plenty of work to be done, and a lot of attempts to make people freeze. Fun!

[Father 'Suke]

+10

[Tora Tsume]

20/100

Knowledge was an amazing tool when learning Jutsus of this caliber. It was the bit that got Tora to the realization that he could master the Genjutsu. Eventually. After all, he couldn't do it without knowing enough theory, just like any other jutsu. Simply performing the seals and molding chakra wouldn't do anything unless he knows how much chakra he would need and how to distribute it around his body and the outside.

At any rate, he got it somewhat down. All that was left was to begin practicing the sets of seals that would make the jutsu work. Firstly, since he already understood the basis of the Genjutsu was to reflect light differently from his eyes, which would cause his target to feel some sort of a disturbance when looking into his eyes, eventually causing him to freeze. That meant that before he could determine the disturbance he would cause, he had to first know how to manipulate the signal sent to the target's eyes.

Forming the first set of seals, Tora molded his chakra into his circulation, allowing it to create a thin layer of chakra that acted as some sort of distortion mirror, allowing the rays of light hitting his eyes to reflect the same signal with a light disturbance embedded with his own chakra. With the seals formed and the chakra molded, he had his eyes covered with the chakra layer, allowing the effect to take place.

In order to test it, he had to see if the effect actually reflected the light rays in the correct way. So, walking down to the nearby lake, he leaned in and slowly opened his eyes, looking back at his reflection, staring into his own eyes and trying to see wether it worked. Surely, he understood that the chakra layer reflected the rays of light in a distorted way, mainly because his blue eyes seemed a little bit too green when looking back into him. This actually gave away that the chakra layer did reflect light differently, yet it wasn't enough to actually make him feel some sort of disturbance in hios chakra.

Shutting his eyes and removing the flow of chakra, he looked back at his reflection, seeing his cold blue eyes look back as he sighed. There was still plenty of work to do. Even with his chakra layer over his eyes, he still couldn't let the chakra mix in with the light and sent to the target. This meant that there was still more to be done in this area. It also meant that if he were to master this Genjutsu he would need to create a different chakra layer. This had nothing to do with the set of seals of course since these only determined the size and location without allowing him to use the jutsu without much focus on his eyes.

Next, he would need to mold some more chakra, perhaps allow the seals to manipulate it so it would mix in with the light hitting his eyes and finally allow the reflection to not change his eye color as seen by others but rather keep the color and turn the signal into a chakra disturbance going through the air and into the eyes of his target - causing a lovely effect to work for the Genin's benefit.

[Father 'Suke]

+10

[Tora Tsume]

30/100

In order to completely understand what went wrong with the same process earlier, Tora had to analyze what it is that cause the light ray to change. Obviously, the chakra he molded while doing the seals and turned to his eyes was creating some sort of a distortion of the light wave, which in turn made it seem like he had greenish eyes rather than his rather beautifully cold blue eyes. This meant that in order to create the desired effect, Tora would need to modify the way he put the chakra around his eyes and understand what it is that went wrong in the first place.

Taking in a deep breath, he began figuring out how it all worked. With his chakra acting like some sort of a mirror, the hitting light ray would be reflected with slight variations. The change of color meant that the wave hitting was distorted rather than infused with chakra like he intended to do so. So, in order to create the effect of infusing the chakra into the light wave, Tora had to create something different than a mirror. Something that wouldn't reflect, but instead absorb itself into the wave.

Forming the seals, Tora once again focused on the first set, molding his chakra around his eyes, creating a layer of chakra that had different qualities - this time turning the mirror of chakra into  a pattern of particles that would be absorbed into the light wave as it would hit his eye - thus not change the color, or rather, not change the wave length or whatever. He wanted to be seen the same, but still create some sort of change to those who look upon his eyes.

By the time he finished his seals, Tora knew that if the effect were to work and take place, that if he were to look into the lake once again, he would see his blue eyes staring back, but would also feel his own chakra flow somewhat disturbed, thus making it feel a little uncomfortable, since any change to the regular chakra flow would cause some sort of physical reaction. It was time to put it to the test and see wether he did things right.

Leaning in and looking into his own reflection, Tora looked into his own blue eyes, suddenly feeling his heart racing and his breath quickening. Obviously something has struck him. Shaking his head, closing his eyes and restoring his chakra flow, he took in another deep breath, happy to learn his first set of seals did as he desired and thus created the effect he wanted.

All that was left now was to simply make the effect a little more specific and under his control. With the following set of seals, Tora would learn to control the jutsu in a way that would create a stunning effect to those who look into is eyes, freezing them in place and allowing him a free range of attacks - a lovely addition to his pantheon of techniques.

[Father 'Suke]

+10

[Tora Tsume]

40/100

With the first set of seals already figured out, Tora's next mission was to finally begin the process of defining and tuning the jutsu to be what it is. The first set of seals was enough to actually cast it, and now that he could cast it on anyone, he could begin testing the effects and see if he could bring the jutsu to perfection with some practice. Testing it on himself was nice, but he would much rather find himself someone else to practice on. Another time perhaps, since for now he was too busy trying to understand some more theory.

The second set of seals was defining the jutsu. It was the set that would set the chakra layer around his eyes to be such that would set the light wave reflected from his eyes such with a very specific effect. He would want the chakra hitting his opponents eyes to turn have his entire body frozen. However, before he could begin to even try and set the chakra into such an effect, he wanted to firstly see what sort of chakra surge would cause the effect.

In order to make someone freeze, the muscles would have to be locked and the body unable to move. This means that the brain should send a signal to every part of the body to lock down - for each muscle to tighten and completely lock it in place. This of course did not affect muscles such as the heart but rather any muscle that would cause movement. Mainly, if one were to lock the heart, he would need an IMMENSE amount of chakra to do so, which is why the Genin wanted to focus on every other body part he could lock in place.

Now, in order to make the brain recieve such a signal that would force it to send a lock command to the entire body, Tora had to affect his target's brain, and luckily he had just the way to do it with the first set of handseals he just masterd. He could send the chakra singal into his target's eyes and allow it to affect him with the chakra imbeded into the light wave he sent away. This chakra would need to travel into the brain and affect it in the way described earlier.

Stretching, Tora smiled and decided to begin focusing on the second set of handseals right away. Though he wouldn't yet try it with the chakra signal reflected from his eyes, but rather try it on himself with his own chakra, making a fun little expiriment with his brain and putting the theory to the test before actually trying it out on the outside world and putting some poor kid into a state out of which it would be hard to get out for a while.

[Father 'Suke]

+10

[Tora Tsume]

50/100

The whole idea of freezing someone was very appealing. However, it did mislead Tora, since the target won't really be frozen but rather stuck in a state of mind that wouldn't allow him to move unless he gets someone to return his chakra to normal. It wasn't about to make someone cold, or feel stuck it ice. The feeling was actually more like muscles stuck and unable to move. And in order to do that, Tora wanted to first check it on himself.

Rather than aiming the Genjutsu on himself, Tora decided to focus on the second set of handseals which would allow his chakra to have the desired effect. However, since he didn't aim it or anything, it would remain in him, causing just some weird effect on him. So, before using the seals, Tora wanted to aim the chakra to him own brain, and perhaps simulate the feeling of recieving such a chakra signal to his eyes and maybe see how it feels to have his brain affected by this special jutsu.

Forming the seals, Tora molded his chakra into his brain. Eyes closed, allowing it an easier access to actually simulate recieving said signal. Once the seals were formed, the Genin awaited for the chakra to take effect on his brain. Waiting to see wether the surge of chakra he molded in would actually help him make use of the effect and feel it for himself. It was taking a while, which was to be expected for using the jutsu for the first time. However, it was still taking effect.

Slowly, Tora could feel his muscle tense. His hands slowly losing movemnt as he felt himself unable to move forward. Blood was still flowing through his body since he didn't feel cold, rather he felt his muscles tighten in a way, causing the feeling of the inability to move. It was rather interesting to expirience something like that for the first time. And of course, soon enough he was completely frozen in place, attempting to move around but only barely moving, feeling himself freeze.

Five minutes later, the Genin finally began regaining his movement. "That was exhausssssss...." He began, only feeling his mouth barely relax and stopping mid sentance. He slowly began moving around, stretching his muscles and finally moving about. Clearly, the effect was working, and working wonderfully too. Tora really didn't expect to feel so helpless during that time, and yet he was caught in his own jutsu. Once he finally regained all of his movement, he jumped up a little to stretch his legs and then sat down on the grass.

He took a deep breath and shut his eyes. It was the perfect time to relax for a bit before he would continue with the next part. Now that he has tried it on himself, he was ready to try it on someone else. However, there was just a little bit of a technical issue to close before he could master the Genjutsu completely. This only meant he would need to stay in the grassy patch for a while longer before walking to the playground to the annoying children.

[Father 'Suke]

+10

[Tora Tsume]

60/100

The third and final set of handseals was the crucial part Tora had to master before going and actually trying the Genjutsu on innocent victims. In order to completely make his gaze devistating, he would want his gaze to last longer. With that, he could look at various targets and freeze them all rather than just look at one person and freeze him, and then do the whole process once again. It was that third set of seals that allowed the Genin to use the technique for a while before letting it fade.

To master the third set of seals, it was first adviced to understand the theory behind it. To make the jutsu work again and again and use the stare over and over, Tora would need to keep the chakra layer around his eyes for a while longer. It would be hard to keep the chakra layer over his eyes, the third set of seals fit in just nice. It was the one that allowed a chakra flow to his eyes for a while, setting it in place without having to focus on it too much.

First, Tora molded some chakra intoo his hand, keeping it in his palm and focusing on it. He then formed the third set of seals, focusing on his palm and letting the chakra stay there. With the third set of seals, he allowed the chakra he molded seconds ago to stay in his palm. However, soon after, it faded back and just vanished. Apperantly, simply using the seals wasn't the trick to mastering them.

Once again, molding chakra into his palm, Tora formed the seals, this time allowing some of his chakra to be molded with them, causing a flowing effect and letting it help his chakra circulation. The idea was to create a constant flow of chakra from his body and into his palm with the seals, which would constantly refresh the chakra and keep it steady for a short while. This was crucial point in it and a lovely realization to master the third set of seals.

For a while, Tora looked at his hand, feelingt he chakra in his palm, feeling the circulation and flow constantly and somewhat enjoying it. If combined with the first two sets, it would be easier to master the Genjutsu - letting the chakra around his eyes to constantly be in flow with his body for a certain period of time, which would allow a constant gaze of terror that would freeze his opponents.

Of course, now all that was left was to actually practice the Genjutsu on some poor soul. Luckily, the playground was full of children just waiting to be frozen and put in a compromising situation - a lovely idea Tora toyed with. "Come out come out wherever you are..." The Genin said as he began walking back to the playground.

[Father 'Suke]

+10

[Tora Tsume]

70/100

Approaching the playground, the Genin was ready to finally expiriement with the Genjutsu and see if he could use it to perfection. For now, he knew that in order to achieve perfection he had to practice and fix the little bugs that might arise from using the Genjutsu for the first time. Perhaps little alterations, little issues that might rise, even some undesired effects. All was to be examined and fixed.

Reaching the playground, the Genin formed the seals. His hands moving with direction, each sealed formed was used with a lot of thought behind it. Each set of seals served it's purpose. First set allowing him to mold chakra over his eyes, letting him reflect the light waves in a specific manner - soaking them with chakra and sending them back to whoever were to look in his eyes. Second set allowed Tora to set the chakra reflected into a specific kind that would affect the brain. Third set would let Tora keep the effect of the jutsu longer and eventually use it for a while.

It was finally time to test it on someone and see how it actually worked. Walking into the play ground, he stood in front of the slide, just as some kid came down, looking up into Tora's eyes, staring into the cold blue hues and freezing in place, unable to move a muscle as Tora passed by, loving how the jutsu affected the boy. It was probably the easiest way to make a kid shut the hell up with just a stare. Though it wasn't over yet.

Before he could gloat, Tora had to examine how the technique affected the kid - how it made him look and how long would it take to return to regular movement. When used on himself, Tora was out of capacity for five whole minutes. However, when used on himself, he was very precise with the chakra, so the effect was easy to menage. This time, the chakra was sent through various filters, which meant some adjustments were to be made in the technique.

Surely enough, looking at the kid, soon enough, he began moving, running to his mom and crying something about the scary man. This meant that Tora couldn't even make a kid freeze with his glace for more than a minute - dissapointing. This also meant he had to make a lot of adjustments in order to use the jutsu perfectly. So, armed with this knowledge, Tora knew just what his course of action would be.

First, he would need to put in more chakra into the jutsu. This would allow the screen in front of his eyes to filter the light waves better and create a longer lasting effect. Second, he would need to deal with the mother who seemed keen to walk over and tell him her opinion on his intimidating demeanor. Such a bother...

[hass]

+10

[Tora Tsume]

80/100

The mother approaching did not seem pleased with Tora's expirimenting on her child. The pissed look in her eyes said it all, and if he were to use the Genjutsu without the seals, it wouldn't work too well. Sure, he could look into her eyes and freeze her for a few seconds, but that would only get her angrier when yelling at him, which meant he had to use the technique all over again, and hopefully this time make it work the way it should.

With her approach being not too subtle, Tora looked down and shut his eyes. He was hoping that he'd be able to think and zone out before she'd approach him and begin to try and scold him with her silly voice and make a whole speach about how rude he was to do whatever it was that he did to her son. Of course, it was impossible, because as soon as he shut his eyes her voice pierced the air and reached his ears as she began her silly speach.

Forming the seals as she spoke, this time using more of his chakra, molding more into the seals, allowing them to work better than before, allowing the Genjutsu to create the special chakra that would cover his eyes in a way that would reflect light waves with a special chakra embedded into it, which would allow his stare to mess with whoever looked into his cod blue eyes. So, once the seals were done, Tora was ready to show the mother just what he did and why she should shut the hell up.

Opening his eyes, Tora looked up and smiled at the woman. "Hush." He said as he looked into her eyes, his cold blue eyes staring at her, piercing her gaze as the chakra reflected through his eyes, letting it affect her brain, letting it send a signal that would freeze her entire body, cause her nuscles to tighten and make her unable to move. This also meant she would be unable to speak since the muscles in her mouth would be paralyzed as well. It was a wonderful effect to watch in action.

"Interesting. I like it." Said the Genin as he looked around at her, walking around and examining her, watching her frozen form and trying to see wether there were any restrictions to his jutsu, perhaps some little screw ups he would need to work on. However, it all seemed alright, and that made him feel reassured about it and go ahead and freeze all the children in the playground - finally shut them up. 

He walked passed her and looked at everyone in the playground, with a wide smile on his face, knowing that soon enough, their tiny little voices would be silenced and perhaps it would be what drives them away from there once the effect of the Genjutsu was to wear off.