Stone Cold [Training | Open]

[Lexi]

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Aisu Ken (Ice Blades)
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates one meter long blades of ice attached to their forearms.
Special: Snake
Drawback: --
Description: The user forms the hand seal, focusing chakra along their arms. Blades of ice will sprout from their forearms, growing to extend to about a meter long. These blades are as hard as the user’s level of Kuri Buki, and last until the user chooses to dispel them or are broken. These blades are sharp on both sides and at the point.
Limit: Must be Kaishin. Must have Hyouton. Must have Aisu Soushi, Suiton Soushi, and Kuri Buki.

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When he lifted his arm to do the technique, though, the blade cracked. Shigeru watched, astounded and frustrated beyond all belief, as the former weapon fell, piece by piece, to the ground.

"Really?" Tired and irritated, Shigeru went through all the things he could have done wrong. The water was tightly packed, the swords had been pretty much dripping with Kaishin chakra… With no idea what had gone wrong, Shigeru was forced to just… try it again.

The final one was a struggle, and Shigeru found himself straining his last bit of chakra control training to get the resources needed to perform the technique again. He performed the hand seals for water creation, if only because he had a vain hope that going through the repetitive motion might save him just a bit on the chakra front. His eyes lazily followed the water as it swirled around his arm. After performing the one seal meant for the technique, he yawned while the water formed shaped its way to his forearm and made a plank, and shaped the water at the same time as he turned it into ice. His jaw set as he focused on shaping the water into a sword, moving molecules this way and that, while simultaneously chanelling chakra into spreading ice up the weapon.

The sword wasn't properly formed, with one half sharp and the other smooth and useless. It didn't surprise the Kaishin- he was still running on low chakra. He focused on making the blade a mirror image, once again imagining the perfect sword and using his chakra to make the blade on his arm reflect that. Of course, that meant he would have to liquify and resolidify the weapon, so, undoing Ice Creation he watched as the ice fled back down the weapon so Shigeru could reshape it. When he had the blade he wanted, it was relatively simple, if tiring, to turn the sword ice again.

His arms were enveloped in the prickling cold, again, as the ice formed; like icy metal against skin; but it was not unbearable. The ice felt like part of him. Gingerly, he propped the blade against the floor. This time, it stayed solid, so he banged it against a nearby rock. The weapon refused to break.

Much better. Finally done, Shigeru poised the weapon at the dog. At this point, he was more tired than curious, and his passion over testing the technique was all but gone. But the blade was still propped against his arm, and he was going to use it on something.

[Gohan]

lol you posted on the wrong account
+5 (to shigeru)

[Shigeru]

(Bahh, how'd I not catch that. Anyway, not training.)

And then a raspy voice came from nowhere.

"W-Wait!"

"Huh?" Shigeru looked up, too late realising that the sudden distraction had broken his concentration on the technique. "Shit!" The swords were already breaking out from under him, forming useless lumps of ice on the floor. Fuck. All that work, I-
He turned to the distraction, his head suddenly heavy. It was a blonde boy, taller than him, probably older, but from the pitiful look on his face a lot softer. He was behind a boulder, leg ready like he wanted to step out.

After a moment of Shigeru staring at him, face a mix of emotions he hoped but didn't expect to portray the offended, frustrated, tiredness of the situation, the boy seemed to work up the courage to say something. "That dog, don't kill it! It's- it's wrong and- p-please!"

Images of killing the boy, using his chakra swords to impale him rushed unbidden to the Kaishin's head. The boy had no headband, and a skinny build, so Shigeru had to guess he wasn't a shinobi. And he was risking his life for a dog?

A million angry, biting things could have come out of Shigeru's mouth, but he was about one technique away from passing out, and probably unable to kill anything in the area, including the dog, so instead, he just shrugged. "Sure. Go ahead." The boy looked doubtful, but still made his way over, picking up the dying animal. In a minute he was out of sight, rushing off with his new pet.

For now, he'd make his way home. It'd been a long training session, and he'd still had a large new arsenal of techniques to play with. Maybe in time he'd really get to use them on something other than a mutt or a civilian kid. That day was not today.

[Shigeru]

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Fuuton: Suiran Reppu (Wind Release: Verdant Mountain's Violent Wind)
Rank: >"D"<, "C", "B", "A", "S" Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: A wind technique using winds to lift and control a certain amount of weapons or people using powerful and at some points violent winds after utilizing the wind release. However, this can only be done to a certain extent.
Special: "Hand seals"
Drawback: Must be learned multiple times, last hand seal must be held for the technique to work. Once the seal is broken the technique will end.
Description: Performing the necessary hand seals, the user will affix their wind release chakra and summon a small to large amount of powerful wind around a certain number of objects. At this point they can be suspended and controlled, moved through the air. However, the ability and amount of things possible to be moved varies along the rank learned for the technique. The winds if commanded can be very dangerous at any point in time; however it may only maim or move. When first learned at "D" Rank, the user is capable of having lifting a total of 10lbs. When dealing with weaponry, the weight of each weapon will be added together to result in the max; same with shinobi. When "C" Rank is reached the user is capable of lifting 50lbs. At "B" Rank, 200; At "A" Rank, 500; and finally at "S" Rank, 1000lbs.
Limit: Must have Wind Release

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The empty lot near his house was a boring place. It had short grass, and a couple, barren trees, but all in all it wasn’t immune from the bleak stoniness of the rest of the village. A house had burned down there, and there was not much left but the short, rotting fence, the still-rising sun and a view of surrounding houses- but it made a so-so training spot.

Today, he would be training wind techniques. From some mysterious, bony chump he'd gotten a message telling him to meet someone in the Academy in the evening. From the family resemblance, he would guess it came from the blonde dog-lover he'd met earlier. Shig was expecting an ambush. Another, reasonable person might have gotten a group of his friends to go with him, or, even better, ignored it. He was looking forward to the challenge. It didn't mean he wasn't going to prepare himself, though.

Wind techniques were useful and versatile- great for annoying people or getting out of sticky situations. He reached into his pocket and picked up some stones he'd collected. They were about the height and weight of kunai, so they'd fit for his purposes just fine. He tossed them out on the ground in front of them. He put his hands together, carefully making his way through the technique's hand seals. Even though he had never tried the particular combination of seals, the seals were becoming familiar as to him as the sight of his own home.

He felt an internal change as he went through them, like a cold but consistent thrumming beat that smoothed out, became less solid. Airy, in a word. He would need to pull out this chakra for the technique he was about to use. He had the feeling that it would be more difficult than the more familiar ice techniques. With a deep breath, Shigeru gathered the changed wind chakra to his core. It was surprisingly easy. In an instant, he felt the condensed, breezy chakra in hi very centre, wispy and ever-changing but incredibly solid in the boy's mind.

Another breath, and he could feel the wispy chakra changing. It was moving about restlessly in his very core. Now, more than a wispy ball of air it was something more solid, more powerful. That could only be a good sign- more power, and he could lift more. He doubted he would be able to make a hurricane quite yet, but this would be something.

Now, he would only have to release it. Holding tight the final seal of the technique, he released the live energy. The wind seemed to rush out from his core, draining like a rush of air out a balloon. Winds seemed to rush out from his clasped hands, and a storm roared around him, wind whipping his hair around his face wildly. All at once, the grass, and the leaves of nearby trees, seemed to come alive, all being tugged and pulled by the energy. But the rocks only shuddered, moving slightly from side to side but staying mainly in spot.

Normally, Shig's reaction to this would be to add more power. This time, he didn't think power was the problem. He moved his focus specifically to the kunai-sized stones, and in direct response the wind moved towards it. The movement of air was nearly visible, like a shuddering hand wrapping around each stone as they lifted into the air, seemingly supported by nothing. Shigeru held them there for ten seconds before he released the seal. Immediately, the winds quieted down to its default slight breeze, and the stones fell to the floor, unmoving. Shigeru moved over and picked up a stone, then threw it in the air and caught it lazily. "That was good."

[Celaena Kamyuja]

Plus Ten
I like this. It was not bad at all.

[Shigeru]

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