First Prayer of Zassou (training)

[祈]

Inori stared at the ceiling in the middle of the night. Something was keeping her up and she knew her father was sleeping. He snored way to loudly, and she knew how to get out of the house. Once out she would call her three little butterfly children, and walk to the flower lot where she had hidden the rest of her butterflies. Once there she didn't know what she would do. 

Trusting her her intuition she slipped through the side door, past the servant's quarters, and into the garden and hope the fence into the alley. Almost before she knew it she was walking down the dirt road searching for her purpose. She still didn't know why was awake. She just needed to be outside, son the crisp hours of morning she walked feeling she skin bubble into goosebumps. 

As as she held her arms stemming the dew from her body she felt the little scars on her fingers and palms. Picking at them as she often did when nervous she itched as they felt particularly irritated. These marks were scars her father had made into her ages ago, the operation hurt for days. She picked at her middle finger tip scar, biting at it. Then *skkkct* it split open. Never had this happened before, she gingerly sucked on her finger letting the blood drain away.

Then her tongue happened upon something. Something wrong. She pulled her finger out of her mouth and walked up in a light to see better. Under the few drops of blood was a little green thing. She tried to pick it out with her finger nails but to no avail. Was it an infection? Was at dangerous?Suddenly worried she shoved chakra into her fingertips. Then ever so naturally, ever so slowly a little vine peaked out and began to grow. 

Inori looked bugeyed at the little green thing coming from her finger. Curious she pressed more and hidden roots ate her chakra and from it the vine grew longer and longer. Six inches, a foot, two feet. Ten feet... Longer. Inori yelled at the massive length and as she did three more vine busted from her right hand fingers and began growing vines. She looked at her hand. Her fingers growing these strange tendrils. 

She he then looked at the other hand finger tips and from them four more grew. She let them grow horrified and excited all at the same time. The vines growing longer and stronger. She could feel the roots dig into her chakra veins and she could feel the itching in her arms fade away. Inori then stopped stunned.

She really was a monster. 

Tear fell down her cheeks as she kneeled on the ground. Ten foot long vines dragging on the ground around her. She was a monster. She had always been told she was a monster. Her father was right, she looked at her hands and the vines wipped and moved.

Surprised she lifted one hand and willed, just like she would her fingers or any other natural part of her body, so wiggle. Her vines obeyed, she stretched them twisted them, made shapes with them. They moved just as naturally as any part of her. 

Looking at the strange sight she lifted her other hand and seeing the palms dotted with three more scars ripped all six open from both hands in a tear filled fit of rage. The vines sprague to life, bolting from their skin held prison and shot out latching onto a doorknob a few feet away. Like it was nothing she untangled her vines and moved them quickly all about her, wagging them around her, she quickly used them to pick up rocks and see what they could do.

She quickly found that though thin the vines were quite strong. She pushed herself off the ground with th vines alone. She reached her hand up and snagged a roof with one hand and chucked herself up into the roof with ease. The vines catching her fall and suspending her as she would will it. Her butterflies landing softly on her shoulder comforting her. She whispered to herself, scared, she then wrapped the vines around telephone poles and threw herself again. She could swing on the vines latch onto things, and control the finger and Palm vines like they were always part of her. The itching must have been from the vines being trapped for so long. 

How long had she had these things inside her? She didn't care she was a monster and she stood floating above a roof her vines wrapped around various poles and handholds suspending her in the air fifty feet above the ground.

Hand Vine Manipulation
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu; Passive
Effect: Allows a Zassou member to manipulate vines in their hands.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot use hand vines until this technique is learned.
Description: A form of training that allows a clan member to manipulate vines from different portions of their bodies. Because the vines are threaded through the users chakra system, this allows them to control those vines. The Zassou will learn how to send the vines in and out from their hands, as well as how to control them more precisely.
Limit: Must be a Zassou.

[zarak729]

7/10

[祈]

Inori shuddered as hung there. The strong vines holding her up tightening as she cried. What was she?!

She was a monster

Inori then took a breath and calmed down. The vines slackened slightly and she looked around her. The vines gripped as she willed them, and she slowly let herself down from the poles and etc. as she came back to earth she pulled on the vines with her chakra. Slowly the vines curled and starting with the right hand pointer finger got sucked back in.

Inori sighed relief as she saw the vines could go back and she could hide from herself to little while longer. She the. Sucked in the next three fingers on the left hand. Then then the rest of the vines, except the palms one by one until there were only those six left. Inori shook as little dropps of blood dripped down her fingers from her newly broken cuts. She then pulled in the vines on her right hand and then her left. Letting the vines shrink and shrivel back into place.

Then with one hand now exposed she could focas on just ascertaining the power and dexterity of the Palm vines. She extended her hand, still overcome with self loathing and tried to bring the shaking under control. She calmed herself for a second, and in that second sent the vines out as far as they would go. About six meters...

Inori pulled them back and had them slither across the ground. Her eyes staring at the odd shapes they had. Still quiet around her she tried again and launched them form her hands at a flowerpot across the street and grabbed it form the stil. She gingerly picked it up, dusted the leaves off with her vines and then yanked them back into her hand, ever so fast as to not let them touch the ground.

Then she walked over to a wall and slamming her hand against it used her left hand slither across the wall. Vines form her fingers, and Palm raced over the wall and effectively gave her an anchor. She then jumped and used her other arm vines to swing up and fly (like Spider-Man) onto a higher roof and land extending her vines from both hands to slow her fall.

[zarak729]

Learned!

[祈]

Foot Vine Manipulation
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu; Passive
Effect: Allows a Zassou member to manipulate vines extending from the feet.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot use foot vines until this technique is learned. When vines are extended beneath the ground, movement of the user becomes extremely limited based on how far under the ground they are and what rank of Vine Length Manipulation is known.
Description: A form of training that allows a clan member to manipulate vines from different portions of their bodies. Because the vines are threaded through the users chakra system, this allows them to control those vines. The Zassou will learn how to send the vines in and out from their feet, as well as how to control them more precisely.
Limit: Must be a Zassou.

As Inori fell out of the sky and sent her vines down from her fingers and palms she soon became aware of the distance to which she was falling. If she fell to the ground it could hurt her. As she fell a quick moment of panic seized her and out of that panic two more sets of vines sprang from her feet and extended to the roof cushioning her fall. 

As she she slammed into the roof the shingles and peices of vine flew everywhere. She was suprised to find that the frayed vines didn't hurt but did make her wince in fright. That would have to be come thing she would have to get over. But the shingles and impact did make her knee a little sore. looking at her feet she used the vines to spring up, now determined to run to her flowered lot. The vines in her feet filled with chakra and helped her lanch herself over gaps and odd terrain. 

As she ran she slipped. The vines in her feet would take some getting use to. Even if she was a monster she was not yet a graceful one. So standing back up she used the vines in her feet as stilts and again began walking on the roofs toward the flower lot. Her new safe haven. The vines were a lot thicker and harder to control. 

To to give her extra support Inori came up with the idea of wrapping the vines around her calves in order to stay more upright and help her run better. Though she till slipped two more time she was getting the hang of it. 

Snother er problem she ran into was difficulty when changing length. Because she wrapped the vines around her ankles and calves she had to tie and loosen odd knots on her feet. This made her teeter when she tried to move faster. Inori was impatient though, she was a monster and the only place where she was normal was in that lot among the butterflies. So she relented and simply stopped and used the vines as boosts for speed. 

This is boost made her a little faster and instead of stepping over gaps on the vines she could have her legs and bridge gaps just that much easier. Her hand vines gliding beside her the vines were beginning to feet that must more normal. The vines in her feet didn't feet as odd and she could retract them better as she jumped.

to make sure she had this she began jumping over the street. While she was not a tai Jutsu specialist by any means the vines helped her glide between the buildings like she had greater reach and etxended limbs. Soon she began forgetting about the vines. The uncomfortable wobble started to fade and she felt confident. 

She he lept off the roof and flitted onto the street swinging and tossing her leg vines out to make her strides wider, her pace quicken and she began to pouce from wall to wall, sprinting between leaps and bounds. She also began using them to run along walls. She found that she had to use less chakra to run parallel as the leg vines gripped with their  prehensile fingers. The leaves no longer nothing her stride.

soon she skidded to a sto. The vines retracting into her feet like a tongue being sucked back into one's mouth. She spied the lot at the end of the street, she having run about a mile or so on her new legs. She could feel them squirming to be let out again and the monster that was Inori breathed in the are, kicking her vine powered leggs into action. Sprinting the final bit to the end of the road making big strides pulling the road to her with her vines feet. Using the fingers to stretch he pace and latch onto anything that could pull her forward like a vines spider.

[zarak729]

Learned!

[祈]

Upon arriving to the field Inori collapsed into the flowers. Her butterflies had waited for her, and her flowers still in full bloom. Smiling to herself through her tears she was home... Funny that. She wasn't at home at her house and she knew it. But here in this abandoned lot she had a home. No-one was around and she was free.

Sucking all the vines back into her fingers, Palm, and feet she rose to her knees. The butterflies kissing her face and shoulders. Licking up the blood on her hands and toes. The butterflies saw her as their mother, and they loved her. She could finger out this new power with them.

Standing she drew on the courage to figure out the rest of the vines in her body. She had to embrace and control this new monster part of her. So she felt along her wait till she found the scar in her belly button and ripped it open. The pain was fast and hot, but as soon as she grew the vine from it the pain subsided. She pulled the vine and let it stretch from her waist.

The vine swirls and was just as prehensile as the lther vines laden in her body. She shot out he new vine and began to exercise it, testing her vine's limits. She found that the belly vine was just slightly faster to be activated then the rest of her body. She guessed because the chakra coil was so close. She also learned that the maximum she could stretch the vine was about 10 meters while it wasn't crazy long it gave her a powerful sense of reach.

The harder part was the balance. While the vines were light, and strong helping her balance herself by grabbing things to hold her Up the new weight extended across x distance was difficult to master. So she started practicing that. Extending her vine our about half of it's full length and jumping backwards and forward. She only tripped once or twice before she started feeling drained from the activity.

But pushing herself she ran and jumped pushing off the stone walls on either side. Using the walls to bank and dive gave Inori the perfect chance to drop to the ground and use the center vine to balance herself. Though the vine was small and thin, Inori was amazed at how she could retract and extend the vines form the small seedlings in her hands and feet, not to mention belly. The vines had to be pulled in when she ran too fast unless she felt the drag, as well as when she rolled to make sure it didn't crunch under her.

Moreover, as she ran and practice her monster abilities she noticed the vines did not tire like her arm or leg. She could pull and push the vine like any body part,they were strong and nimble but only ate up minor amounts of chakra. She realized this as she used her belly vine to pull herself onto the neighboring roof of an abandoned building. Her waist throbbed from the pull on her skin and the muscles from the spamming she got from using it to launch into the air.

Stomach Vine Manipulation
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu; Passive
Effect: Allows a Zassou member to manipulate thick vines extending from the hole in his stomach.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot use stomach vines until this technique is learned.
Description: A form of training that allows a clan member to manipulate vines from different portions of their bodies. Because the vines are threaded through the users chakra system, this allows them to control those vines. The Zassou will learn how to send the vines in and out from their stomach, as well as how to control them more precisely.
Limit: Must be a Zassou.

[zarak729]

5/10 TP

[祈]

Picking herself up again and feeling the sweat that came with training she felt her second wind coming on. the feeling that comes when one person's body has stopped complaining and is almost willing to take the punishment. Hence the punshment continued.

This time Inori set down and extending the Vine in her stomach outwards about 20' and wrapped it around her body. She noticed this vine was quite a bit bigger than the others. While the ones in her fingers maybe were about as round as a 500 Ryo ryo peice, the one in her stomack was almost as rong as her wrist at the base. She used the extra muscle to lift her up while maintaining a cross legged sitting posture. 

As she hovered in the air supported by the one vine she closed her eyes and focased on her chakra control. This sitting and focasing allowed her to feel the chakra flow from her core and out her belly. She felt the surge, like boddy to her body being emptied to her vine. There she flexed the chakra and funneled it into the vine.

this added extra balance and made her feel more one with this new vine. No wonder it was harder to use. Such a funny place, but it allowed her a strong secret weapon. again not letting her concentration to break she continued to allow her flow to focus justnon the one vine. Slipping she felt herself dropp slowly in the air a little bit.

Not willing to give up just yet she clenched her fists in her hands and pushed herself higher in the air with that one vine. She used it exclusively to balance and hold herself aloft as he focased on her chakra. She now stood about 7' in the air. She strained as gravity pulled her down but she faugh against it with her ab muscled clenching them as the burden on her body increased.

Continuing she distracted herself by counting seconds in the air. 15... 16... 19... 26... 31... 35...38...39...40! at that she toppled to the earth her abs and stomach burning with pain and her chakra core felt like it had been jolted. She rolled on the ground gripping her stomach and moanig quietly. Oh man that hurt! Damnnnnn....!!!

The fact that she had held herself that long was impressive and as she sat upright she felt the burn, but the satisfaction of being able to balance that long gave her heart. Breathing heavily and counting to ten she tried again. UP!

closing her eyes and counting again she held for as long as she could. Focasing on the wind, the butterflies, anything to distract from the burning in her gut. 27... 28... The chakra holding it's own, the feel of the vine in her belly, roots locked on her chakra coil. 34... 35... She focased on subjecting the monster that she was, fighting against the throbbing pain, her mind blurred a bit. 39... 40... She yelled and held on just a second longer... 43... 44... Ugh! 45!!!

with that she tame tumbling down to earth, her face wincing in effort and focus. She plummeted to the hard flower filled ground.

[zarak729]

Learned!

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((Ooc: kinda forgot to change accounts. Oops. Would you mind deleting this post?))

Shoulder Vine Manipulation
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu; Passive
Effect: Allows a Zassou member to manipulate vines extending from the hole in the front portion of each shoulder.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot use shoulder vines until this technique is learned.
Description: A form of training that allows a clan member to manipulate vines from different portions of their bodies. Because the vines are threaded through the users chakra system, this allows them to control those vines. The Zassou will learn how to send the vines in and out from their shoulders, as well as how to control them more precisely.
Limit: Must be a Zassou.

Inori held her stomach on the ground and moaned to herself. She had no finish this Vine training though. She had to know where all the other vines were and allow herself control over them. She had to be free of this burden of ignorance. If she was a monster, this monster should be free.

Sitting up and leaning back to relax a bit she felt around he body via chakra searching for more vines. Upon finding on strong seedling in her shoulder she feed chakra into the seed under her arm and forced the sprout, up past her skin, and let both spring outwards. Then forming an image in her mind had the new vines begin to wind down her slender arms and around her fists. She used the vines as braces, holding her arms in fighting stance.

The vines felt new and fresh, something she would have to work out. She moved the vines spinning them until the wound around her arms like armor, then she thickened the vines. This attempt made her arm feel squeezed under the pressure and she quickly unbound her arm in pain. "Stupid" she muttered. Then again this time thickening the vine and thinning them down again, feeding the seeds with chakra and manipulating the roots to give the vines shape. 

With thy this done her arms felt covered, yet braced. She did constrict movement though because the vines were new and stiff. So she took some swings and slithered her vines. Punching one, two, three, up up, cross. She wasn't that great at punching but it did the job. Next she unwrapped her hands and arms, freeing her somewhat and uncontricting her hands movement

Then she used the vines as braces. Shooting the vines behind her into the ground and propping herself up as to stop an attack. This didn't work to well as the vines at to wrap around to many times to be even slightly effective. They seemed better suited for holding the
ings though. Taking two sticks of the ground, of which she used her vines to pick up, she found that the vines in the shoulder blade acted really well as a second pair of starnge arms. 

Liking this's new idea she used the vines to strike, grab, and catch items. Catching was rough, she would have to figure out a way to block with the vines, as the shoulder vines were best if they were used as striking and basic movement tenticles. They were not as nimble as he fingers but just as strong as thee legs, while not as fast as he stomach vines. She was beginning to understand the difference therein and use he vines accordingly. 

Working to strengthen the speed of the vines Inori began tossing rocks into the air and trying to bat them away with her vines. She quickly noticed she would end up with more bruises if she kept throwing the rocks straight up in the air. She wasn't good enough to dodge them while trying to use the vines themselves. 

Trying again this time throwing the rocks out a little ways and batting them out, the curling tendrils of her vines had better shots. She noticed this way she could hit two out of every five with some accuracy. She kept going, picking up rocks throwing them and hitting them while in the air. For the next half hour, til light began creeping on the horizen, she continued this practice. 

Soon on she was able to hit Four out of every five, a number that pleased her but also had made her shoulders sore. Throwing the rocks and moving her shoulders out of habit wasn't helping either. But stetching a bit more and seeing the sunrise she decided to take a quick break.

[祈]

Shoulder Vine Manipulation
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu; Passive
Effect: Allows a Zassou member to manipulate vines extending from the hole in the front portion of each shoulder.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot use shoulder vines until this technique is learned.
Description: A form of training that allows a clan member to manipulate vines from different portions of their bodies. Because the vines are threaded through the users chakra system, this allows them to control those vines. The Zassou will learn how to send the vines in and out from their shoulders, as well as how to control them more precisely.
Limit: Must be a Zassou.

Inori held her stomach on the ground and moaned to herself. She had no finish this Vine training though. She had to know where all the other vines were and allow herself control over them. She had to be free of this burden of ignorance. If she was a monster, this monster should be free.

Sitting up and leaning back to relax a bit she felt around he body via chakra searching for more vines. Upon finding on strong seedling in her shoulder she feed chakra into the seed under her arm and forced the sprout, up past her skin, and let both spring outwards. Then forming an image in her mind had the new vines begin to wind down her slender arms and around her fists. She used the vines as braces, holding her arms in fighting stance.

The vines felt new and fresh, something she would have to work out. She moved the vines spinning them until the wound around her arms like armor, then she thickened the vines. This attempt made her arm feel squeezed under the pressure and she quickly unbound her arm in pain. "Stupid" she muttered. Then again this time thickening the vine and thinning them down again, feeding the seeds with chakra and manipulating the roots to give the vines shape.

With thy this done her arms felt covered, yet braced. She did constrict movement though because the vines were new and stiff. So she took some swings and slithered her vines. Punching one, two, three, up up, cross. She wasn't that great at punching but it did the job. Next she unwrapped her hands and arms, freeing her somewhat and uncontricting her hands movement

Then she used the vines as braces. Shooting the vines behind her into the ground and propping herself up as to stop an attack. This didn't work to well as the vines at to wrap around to many times to be even slightly effective. They seemed better suited for holding the
ings though. Taking two sticks of the ground, of which she used her vines to pick up, she found that the vines in the shoulder blade acted really well as a second pair of starnge arms.

Liking this's new idea she used the vines to strike, grab, and catch items. Catching was rough, she would have to figure out a way to block with the vines, as the shoulder vines were best if they were used as striking and basic movement tenticles. They were not as nimble as he fingers but just as strong as thee legs, while not as fast as he stomach vines. She was beginning to understand the difference therein and use he vines accordingly.

Working to strengthen the speed of the vines Inori began tossing rocks into the air and trying to bat them away with her vines. She quickly noticed she would end up with more bruises if she kept throwing the rocks straight up in the air. She wasn't good enough to dodge them while trying to use the vines themselves.

Trying again this time throwing the rocks out a little ways and batting them out, the curling tendrils of her vines had better shots. She noticed this way she could hit two out of every five with some accuracy. She kept going, picking up rocks throwing them and hitting them while in the air. For the next half hour, til light began creeping on the horizen, she continued this practice.

Soon on she was able to hit Four out of every five, a number that pleased her but also had made her shoulders sore. Throwing the rocks and moving her shoulders out of habit wasn't helping either. But stetching a bit more and seeing the sunrise she decided to take a quick break.

[zarak729]

Learned!

[祈]

0/10
((ooc: I tried to make this post a little different, as it was more of a character developement post. She is coming into her self and im trying to show who she is and who she is becoming. Hence why i trained her this was in the post. It is a training more of her self image and courage growing, much as her vines do.))

Forehead Vine Manipulation
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu; Passive
Effect: Allows a Zassou member to manipulate vines extending from the hole in their forehead.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot use forehead vines until this technique is learned.
Description: A form of training that allows a clan member to manipulate vines from different portions of their bodies. Because the vines are threaded through the users chakra system, this allows them to control those vines. The Zassou will learn how to send the vines in and out from their fprehead, as well as how to control them more precisely.
Limit: Must be a Zassou.

Inori Shrugged the pain off and stood up facing the mountains. She knew she would have to get home soon, but the butterflies and the flowers made her feel like she was really at home. She knew if she stayed out to late and her father awoke without her there, there was hell to pay. So dusting herself off, and retracting the vines as best her could, she began walking back.

Her clothes while only mildly dirty could be remedied, as well as a quick shower would be in oder to rid the smell of sweat and pollen. Lastly, upon getting home she would have to find a way to cut the vines from her fingers and toes and wrap her arms with bandages. It would be better than wearing long sleeved clothes in the spring. 

As she walked home, and slipped back into the house she quickly slipped into the bathroom and caught a image in the mirror. Aside from the scuffs and dirt on her face there was something she had never seen before. With the three ever present butterflies, and the vine tips still sticking out of her shoulders and fingers, she looked... wild. She looked like there were new power in her eyes and light behind them. A new well of courage had welled up inside of her. She was wild... She was stunning not only for her beauty, but also for the untold dangers she had inside.

Who was she?!

As she contumplated this a vine, willowy and light popped out of her forhead. The vine tunneled out from the skin like a worm from black ground and wiggled lightly from ther earth. The vine twisted and curled in the ait licking the moist air of the restroom. The skin around the vine gave one drop of blood from her face, and it fell down her nose and dripped onto her hand. The vine extended and wiggled, free from the seed in Inori's skull.

Inori looked at the vine like a teenager looks at a zit, wondering how she was going to cover up the protruding growth on her face. He looked at it with crossed eye, as tried to force it back. Surely her father would notice if a vine was bobbing out from her forehead like a little green snake. the vine rolled but could only go back in so far. 

Again she pushed chakra into the vine trying to make it do as she pleased. Nevertheless, the vine disobeyed and only wiggled around the hole. No matter what inori seemed to try ther vines would only retract so far. Agonizing over this silly thing she desided she was going to have to do something about this vine. She extended the vine like she would do any other, then tried to wrap it around her head.

This vine, with such a shallow root system seemed to have it's own will and wrapped partially around her head before stopping like it was kinked inside her brain. Inori grunted and pulled on the littel vine with her fingers. The vine only struggled more and twisted into her hair. Annoyed and frustrated Inori retracted and pushed the vine around untangling it from her hair. This delicate process was difficult. She had to weave with great concintration the vine between and out from her wirely and mesh like hair. She had to ungrow leaves from the vine and wished it away.

Inori also had to have great consentration during the whole process for every time she got angry it seemed like the little vine only wormed into her hair farther and she would have to start all over again. So she slowly but surely pulled the vine via chakra and wound it back out of her hair. Now free from the bond of the wiley vine she attempted to wrap it around her hair, making it a barrett of sorts. 

As she spun the vine she noticed this vine was terribly dificult to manuver unlike the other vines on her body. This vine was thin, leaves seemed to sping up more often, and it would twist quite often. Finally making it wrap around her head three time she attempted to tighten the wrap ever to slightly. This resulted in her nearly squeezing her brain out. while this vine was small and thin it was very very strong. like a cord of wire, or something eaqually stron. There was no way she could just cut the sucker away if it was that strong. 

So taking care to make sure the vine was always loose when it was on her head, Inori tried to see what else this little vine could do. She retracted it as much as she could, and then shot it out. This in turn cracked the little handheld mirror she had been using. With a crash the shrads fell to the floor.

Careful not to cut herself Inori picked the pieces back up and tossed them in the rubbish bin. Then focasing again with the big mirror, Inori went back to the little vine on her head. She swung it this way and that. Learning that this vine simply had to be directed and would almost follow wat she wanted without much work. It seemed to have a mind of it's own, but instead had a strange feeling of intuition behind it. 

Inori then tried to wrap it through her hair like she would before, but this time without trying to control every exact movement of the vine. This time the vine weaved though her hair, undoing knots and gently combing ther hair. this little finger of a vine, was strong and gentle all at the same time. It seemed to know where to go even as Inori thought it, flowing through her wire like afro or hair. 

As it wound through her locks and tresses of hair, Inori noticed little buds pop up on her vine. Suddenly the crown of vines that had wound through her hair and eventually over her head twice, looking ever so natural, bloomed. The flowers were selene seed daisies. little tiny white ones, and were very charming. 

Inori gasped. Where had... Who... Inori checked the pocked in her skin above her right breast...

There was a seed in it. 
Someone had to put that seed there for her to even grow...
Did father...

Inori gazed at the vines before adjusting them and making sure they looked natural, like a band of braided flowers set on her head, hiding the spot where the vines grew from. He had seemed to have gotten the hang of this whole thing thus far. Vine and all. But the idea that hjer father, or someone had put a seed in her cheast made breathing a little hard.

She was scared.

Inori took a deep breath as she heard a knock at the door.

[Celaena Kamyuja]

Hmm Plus Ten.

[祈]

Vine Sensitivity
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu, Passive
Effect: Allows Zassou members will be able to "feel" with their vines.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot be used in conjunction with Tetsubun Tsukene no Jutsu ("Iron Vines Technique").
Description: Vines are either spread underground or into a solid surface. When someone walks on the surface (or ground), it creates a vibration that can be felt by the vines. This vibration goes to the Zassou member, and the vine is connected to the nerves and let us them know if someone is around the user. Through this they can learn the approximate location of the opponent. The user will be unable to pinpoint exact location or any details about the opponent beyond their general location and general size.
Limit: Must be a Zassou.

"Just a minute" Inori called. As the doorknob began to shake, a voice boomed behind it.
"hurry up Inori! I need to use the damned toilet. Cursed maid poisoned me with that blasted corn soup I had for dinner. 
"I'm finished up!" She hurried and wrapped a gauze bandage around her arms in a furry, working to wrap up the vines so she could escape.

"Inori!" Father's voice called.
"done! She said in a panic, as she opened the door in a flurry. Standing in front of her was a man about 6' tall and balding. His crows feet looked like bent metal on his iron hard face. His skin was tough and stretched in come places. He had been burned by something as a child and his White pale skin had chemical burns on the neck, and a scar on his lower lip.

"What are you doing all dressed Inori?" His hawk like eyes scanning the bandages.
"need to go train to complete a mission father... You said I cou..."
" I know what I said you husk of a woman. You make me sick with all your shallow minded comments."

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That was que for her to leave. She bowed to her father, and hurried out the door back outside. Happy he didn't notice the stink of sweat or the lack of equipment. She hurried back to the flowery lot and was kisse by the butterflies as she past. Then, closing her eyes extended the vines from her fingers, feet, shoulders, stomach and even unwrapped her forehead. The vines extended every which way and Inori used them as feelers.

She noticed that when she was trying to pick the vine from her finger, and when she was using her forehead vine as a hair tie that she could kind feel with her vines. She wanted to test this, also knowing that she had to do something before coming home gave her the excuse to keep training.

Inori, with her eyes closed took a step forward. Her feet vines slithering ahead of her. She probed the ground in front her, trying to find any rocks or sticks that might poke her feet. After about two steps she stubbed her toe on a rock. Hissing she rubbed her foot and opened her eyes in pain. Now more annoyed than in pain she closed her eye, and again started probing with her vines.
 This time she took four steps before she scraped her toe on a branch that had fallen to the ground. 

Starting to think that this was all a fluke, she again closed her eyes and focased on the chakra flowing into the vines. She knew that there was something she was doing wrong. She compared how her hands a feet felt as they padded along, compared to her vines. She noticed that she was to focused on the tips on her vine. Her arms and hands had chakra all through them, while her vines seemed to be tip based.

She remedied this by dispersing her vine's chakra more evenly, and stopped worrying about the flow. As she did this and began again she was able to take ten, twenty, twenty four steps before a tree poked her in the eye.

Grabbing her eye whe held in it pain. She had been so focused on walking she didn't notice anything else. This time she started swinging her vines, using her stomach vine to balance her as she walked, she used the shoulder vines, using the full length of them to feel and touch anything in her way. While this helped her avoide anything dangerous, she felt like there was to much focus involved.

This time Inori opened her eyes and extended her vines in all directions. Her shoulders, stomach, fingers, palms, and feet all went everywhere. Inori smiled. The vines gave her sensory data from wherever she touched. Like her fingers or toes. It took a second to be able to gather all the information in, but she liked how it felt. 

Taking in all the information and fusion in normally though was a different story. While the vines had become normal and she could feel with every leaf, and fiber of the vine it was a lot to take in. She noted as she walked that she was walking slower, taking in all the feelings of the flowers and rocks under her. If she was too slow they ability would only hurt her. Overwhelm her with her sense of touch.

So she retracted her forhead vine and would it back into her hair, feeling her way between braids and round her ears. She noticed that feeling with the vines was a lot more powerful tool than just looking where they are going. You don't look where your hand it going but you feel it close around a doorknob. You trust your body.

Inori jumped and run, feeling vines in her feet extended lengthening her stride. Leaping the vines in her fingers shot out like little fireworks of green exploring from her fingers and wrapping around the closest tree branch. The branch felt light... Inori let go of the branch before the weight of her body snapped it. The branch was rotten, if she had pulled hard she would have wipped out in mid air. Scary. Good thing she had just practiced feeling with her vines.

Taking a short breath she swung her vines around the tree dropped herself to the earth, the vines slowing her fall and making her body ease to the ground. The vines on her feet groped the ground ahead of her and made sure where she was landing was safe. These vine... They were handy.

[zarak729]

Learned!

[祈]

Inori stood in front of the tree with her vines extended and stared at the green leafy vine extended from her fingertips. After having almost faceplanted because of a silly rotten branch she was somewhat overcome by a surge of paranoid worries. What would have happened if the tree had been someone trying to kill her, She would have been dead. There just had to be a way to cut these vines. 

Staring at at ther palm of her hand with the three little creeping vine protruding out from them, Inori extended one slightly and then attempted to withdraw chakra and energy from the vine. The vine shrank back but did not sever. Frowning Inori filly the vine with chakra and tried to black it open, fraying the vine. All this caused was a suddenly very pumped vine. Obviously her body's vines were much like her own, they could handle her chakra. 

Thinking back to the first attempt Inori got an idea. Thinking to herself Inori wrapped all seven of her right han's vine around the rotten branched tree beside her. Then withdrawing chakra, cutting off her life force to the vine, and sucking health from the base of the vine, a strange feeling, she pulled ever so slightly from the base of the plant by the seed inside her palm.

There was a ripping sound and one of the seven vines sagged and slumped to the ground below. Inori, giddy now after figuring out that she could use this to hide her ability smiled to herself. She then tried again wanting to practice this new important skill. The next vine in the palm felt much the same way. Ripping away chakra, life energy, and then finally health from the vine. This siphon of energy feeling like a shot of something had she never had felt before. And just like before, the vine fell to the ground, severed from the root.

before Inori went any farther with this new skill she had developed, Inori felt in her palm to make sure the seeds were still there, and that they could still grow vines. Tugging on a seen inside her palm with chakra, Inori was near instantly granted a new baby vine beginning to grow but just Bearkats breaking the surface. Again Inori followed those three steps and the loiter vine dropped from her hand like a wasp filled with caffeine. 

Restarting on on her hand now Inori again severed the last Vine on her palm and began on the fingers. The fingers had the same idea but took a new kind of focas. With the seeds so close the sensitive tips of her fingers she needed a clean cut. Draining the vine she tried but failed to do it on her pointer finger the first time.

trying again this time Inori gave a pull with her finger this time. This served to sever the vine. Trying this on the other fingers she one by one, pulling and daring the life from the vine she continued on. After about the forth finger , freeing her right hand she noticed something. She didn't have to drain the whole vine, just the base of the vine. 

Making sure her hypothesis was right she drained the bases of all three vines in her left hand in one go. Then yanked on them with a sudden jerk of her fingers.the vines all snapped with a pop and fell to the ground. This way was a lot more effective, Inori thought to herself. 

Continuing her training she then severed the vines in her feet with little to no problem. Her shoulders were a little harder as they were still kind of odd places to change your chakra flow. The first time she was able to let one break away by weight, and the other stayed in place. She had to focas all over again before it came off.

The stomach and the forehead were the hadest though. The belly vine was very strong and it took a second longer to detach the vine from ther belly button. Mainly it was the chakra flow that made it difficult and harder to manage. The forehead on the other fans had a good chakra flow, but the forehead vine is quite tough, maybe because of the root system to cut off. But when she did, she could herself browning it back so she could have flowers in her hair, silly thing though it was. 

With she all the vines on her body now detached she took the ability for a spin by quickly wrapping a whole hand of vines around the tree, tangling them in the branches, and roots of the elm, and then as quick as she could yank her hand free. She was able to do it fairly quickly. The vines also didn't die right away. Like any plant, it was severed from it's source of nutrients, but it was slow in dying. 

Inori did this four more times, changing vines, using not only her hands and feet, but also her shoulders and belly vine. The belly vine was still so fast it took her a second to remember the vines were still all slightly different. In like manner as she cut the vines she noticed it didn't hurt like she thought it might. Instead it was simply a knowing that something was gone, killed, but she, Inori, was not.

Vine Liberation (Tsuneke Kaihou)
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Allows a Zassou member to detach one of their vines.
Special: "Hand Seals"
Drawback: Takes time to regrow.
Description: The Zassou depend on their vines but some scenarios call upon the removal of a vine. In this jutsu the user can send chakra to any particular area of the vine. The chakra will cut off any energy, life and support to that area making it weak to the point where it breaks off. After this it will take the detached vine one turn to regrow.
Limit: Must be a Zassou.

[zarak729]

Learned!

[祈]

Inori looked up at the sun, it was coming up and beginning to get warm, and and she was getting tired. After being up all night and now having to train all day she was whooped. But she kept on. The vines in her body obeyed her so well, and she wanted to see what they could do.

Quick Vine: Reflection (Hayai no Tsukene: Touei)
Rank: "D, C, B" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Using the fast speed of quick vine the user is able to deflect incoming secondary weapons.
Special: "Hand Seals"
Drawback:Can only use once per round. The user cannot use any other quick vine techniques while this is in use.
Description: Quick Vine Reflection is a jutsu derived from training to use the quick spurts of speed from quick vine. After the user uses quick vine the vine will start to move swiftly and through training the user is able to use the random spurts and guide the vines to deflect incoming projectiles. At D rank the user is able to deflect up to 10 secondary weapons. At C rank the user is able to deflect up to 25 secondary weapons. At B rank the user is able to deflect up to 50 secondary weapons. Because of the concentration of focusing the vines on projectiles this jutsu can only be used once per round and the user is unable to perform any other quick vine techniques for that round.
Limit: Must be a Zassou. Must have Quick Vine.
0/10 ((already have prerequisite))

Inori wanted to make sure she had a good defense if anything happened. Although she planned to keep her Vine abilities secret. She would learn this Jutsu and show the Raikage a different tecnique. She knew she was to train a C level ability for him, but how she didn't know. Maybe something else with the butterflies. Or maybe the flowers, that might be a better cover. She remembered the ladies look on her face when she said she made the seed grow into a flower.

Suddenly she got an idea. She would use her vines to reflect things. She quickly extended her shoulde and eight finger vine and wiggled them as fast as she could. Then, she used her shoulder vines to slap the truck of the tree making little harmless branches fall about her head. In an instant she surged chakra to her vines and tried to catch all the branches fall around her. She failed at this miserably. It was like watching child play catch with itself, but without hands.

She caught two out of who knows how many, and crumpled the little sticks in her hand. Then determined, and taking her mind off of how tired she was, set ten little sticks on the overhanging branch. Then she drummed the truck again sending the branches to fall right on her again. The surged chakra to her vines, and for a short couple seconds there was a flurry as vine lashed out and wrapped around the little sticks falling down. The vines moved so fast, Inori noticed she naturally could use this speed. Yet, opening the vines to see how many she caught the vines only held three sticks. She wanted to throw them, but places them all on the tree again.

This time she focased and made six handsigns, she was going to mold a Jutsu out of this. She slammed the tree and little branches again fell all around her. As sure as anything she whipped the vines out fast as she could and snagged three branches right away. The next two she touched but instinctively knocked them away. Not thinking. The next four fell to the ground and she snagged the last one, making four caught. Feeling progressively better she tossed the four sticks into the wind and making the same handseals surged chakra like a little wave and snapped the sticks up in the whirl of movement. The smiled. It helped if she could see them, feel pressure form them falling.

So she stacked the sticks above her again, and took a few steps closer to under the branch, til it was right over her head and made the handsigns. As soon as she hit the trunk with her vine she let the branches fall for a split second and then let her vines free. They sped up like lightening. Lashing out and snagging the branches, she surged and for about two seconds there was a blur of green and grey. Then upon inspection there were seven branches in her hand. Seven.

Inori quickly put the branches back trying to see if she could really snag all ten. She hit the truck and lashed out again after making the hand seal and feel the chakra grow and bloom in her vines. It felt great, like she was being let free to move this fast and with such power. She felt the vines whisk and snag the branches. Eight. Inori jumped for joy, her vine floating like tentacles. She tried again, stil eight. Again she smacked the branch, but no matter four five six time and she could not beat out eight branches.

Convinced that she could do better she extended the six other fines in her hand and tried again. She time she didn't wait for them to fall. She whipped the vine sin the frenzy, working to catch every single on of them. She snagged one, two, four, six, seven...eight...

Eight. She didn't improve even after seven tries. What the heck. She was thinking to much she tried again, not waiting to overthink why she could not do it. She slammed the tree and the branches she has places on the edge at random fell. She but her lip and the vines flew by each trained on a target. Some vines even shared a target. As she surged the chakra the vines wrapped and clung to the projectiles. One two, seven eight...

Nine.

Nine of ten. She was so close to her goal. So close she knew she could do it. She just had to let it go, let instinct take over and try again. This time she closed her eyes and let her tentacles float out like they were tasting the air, then upon making the handsigns, she smoke the tree again waiting to see if she caught all ten placed sticks, she let the chakra surge and the vines whipped out...