A day at the Greenhouses (open Training)

[Ace Detective Nara]

0/5

(Able Learner + 50%)

Botany (Underworld)
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A skill that allows the user to identify plants.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A character with this skill has a basic knowledge of plants and how they grow. They know how to tell various species of plants apart and under what conditions each type of plant grows best. Most of the time they can tell poisonous plants from non-poisonous plants. User must choose a specific Region each time they go up this Skill. A successful Botany Skill check provides knowledge of plants, while failure indicates the character does not know or cannot recall anything about that plant. Each Skill level allows the user knowledge of each Herb category (Example: Novice can identify Common Herbs, Master can identify Nearly Impossible Herbs) within a region. Here is some Difficulty Examples.
Trivial - Plant is in bloom
Easy - Plant is whole
Average - Identify plant fruit, leaves, tubers or seeds
Difficult - Parts of plant in a mixture or food
Very Difficult - Identify plant from charred remains

Each time learned user gets 5 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---
TP: 0
SP: 0/125

Tetsu had decided to take some time to visit some of the greenhouses throughout the leaf village, to get the feeling for how plants lived and in fact were cultivated eventually. Looking at the underworld plants, Tetsu began to study the soil conditions that were required for the low-light loving plants enjoyed. The room itself was dark and damp, similar to that of how a cave would be. Tetsu looked at some of the few plants that he could remember from his time with the Kasuta, the Cave star (white) and the Cave Star (blue) pipe weeds that the Kasuta clan used to increase their ability to perform universal ninjutsu, and simply relaxed the user in general. The white Cave Star plant was the more common of the two, and thus would be the more easily identifiable, seeing as it looked very similar to the blue, except for the slight blue tint. Otherwise, the plant’s structure and appearance were very similar. This would make them fairly hard to distinguish to the average onlooker; however, Tetsu was interested in learning how to acquire the fairly rare plant, and recognize it among the white Cave Star plants.

Tetsu slowly approached the flowering bed that they were growing in within the darkness of the Greenhouse’s imitation of a cave for the plants to grow in. Tetsu leaned in close to the two star like plants, and noticed how similar the two plants appeared, even with their root structures. Taking his finger and slightly running it through the soil, he checked each condition of the soil so that he could see if there was any subtle differences. To the naked eye, Tetsu couldn’t see any differences in soil content that lead him to believe that there was any differences that allowed the blue cave star to grow opposed to the white. They were exactly the same, except for the plant themselves as far as Tetsu could tell. Picking up one of the spades from the wooden table to his side, he quickly put it into the soil so that he could dig out a sample of the soil and test the PH of each soil sample to see if there was any difference in acidity, or even in salinity.

[Aimi Kaguya]

+5 TP, +45 SP

[Ace Detective Nara]

0/5 Training Points

(have able learner + 50%)

Botany (Underworld)
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A skill that allows the user to identify plants.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A character with this skill has a basic knowledge of plants and how they grow. They know how to tell various species of plants apart and under what conditions each type of plant grows best. Most of the time they can tell poisonous plants from non-poisonous plants. User must choose a specific Region each time they go up this Skill. A successful Botany Skill check provides knowledge of plants, while failure indicates the character does not know or cannot recall anything about that plant. Each Skill level allows the user knowledge of each Herb category (Example: Novice can identify Common Herbs, Master can identify Nearly Impossible Herbs) within a region. Here is some Difficulty Examples.
Trivial - Plant is in bloom
Easy - Plant is whole
Average - Identify plant fruit, leaves, tubers or seeds
Difficult - Parts of plant in a mixture or food
Very Difficult - Identify plant from charred remains
Each time learned user gets 5 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---
TP: 5
SP: 45/125

Tetsu quickly took one of his 100 ml vials, and began to lightly place some of the soil sample within the vial so that he could begin putting the PH testing liquid, bromide blue, into the soil sample to see if there was any change within the soil itself to express how the soil's acidity affected the plants that grew there. for this reason, Tetsu found it strange when the soil sample did not take on an orange hue like he would have expected from an acidic soil solution. Instead, the blue solution remained blue with the fine particles of soil. Tetsu couldtell by the size of the soil that began to settled down within the vial that he was looking at in interest. He noticed that the composition of the soil consisted mostly of silt sized particles, mixed in with a large amount of clay. In fact the Sand, Silt, Clay ratio was about 1:5:8 which showed that the clay within the soil was much more prevalent than the other particle sizes. The cave copied soil was extremely strange for this reason, because plants normally would not favor the compact soil that existed within the earth. "hmm strange..." Tetsu said putting the vial down before scribbling down the PH reading of the soil down inside of his notebook that he was beginning to keep track of so that he could most effectively remember what each plant liked.

"So, White Cave Stars Like clay rich soil, damp locations, as well as have tendencies to occupy basic soil that is rich in argon." Tetsu muttered to himself as he continued to write down his notes post haste. Obviously he was much more interested in plants than a normal person should be. "hmm, but why does the Blue Cave Star still grow in the same area, but at a lesser abundance." Tetsu asked himself as he thought about the growth ratio between the plants that was about 1 for ever 100 White Cave Stars. Tetsu made note of this fact in his book as he continued to exam the plants themselves. Quietly going over to the desk, he pulled on a lab coat, and began to prepare another experiment. Taking a small pinch of salt, he quietly walked over to the damp soil that housed the two plants. Taking the salt and dividing it among the plants, he sprinkled some of it into the soil around them before he watered the plants a tad bit. Waiting for a few hours, he observed how the plants reacted to a change in salinity. 

"What a surprise, the White Cave Star is beginning to wilt." Tetsu said, astonished as he turned to look at the Blue cave star that had not been as affected by the white. "So I guess it's safe to assume that the blue cave star prefers slightly saltier soil." Tetsu said making not within his notebook as he finished writing his section on the two plants. He then began to draw the plants, so that he could have a diagram to label later. 

[Ace Detective Nara]

0/5 Training Points

Botany (Underworld)
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A skill that allows the user to identify plants.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A character with this skill has a basic knowledge of plants and how they grow. They know how to tell various species of plants apart and under what conditions each type of plant grows best. Most of the time they can tell poisonous plants from non-poisonous plants. User must choose a specific Region each time they go up this Skill. A successful Botany Skill check provides knowledge of plants, while failure indicates the character does not know or cannot recall anything about that plant. Each Skill level allows the user knowledge of each Herb category (Example: Novice can identify Common Herbs, Master can identify Nearly Impossible Herbs) within a region. Here is some Difficulty Examples.
Trivial - Plant is in bloom
Easy - Plant is whole
Average - Identify plant fruit, leaves, tubers or seeds
Difficult - Parts of plant in a mixture or food
Very Difficult - Identify plant from charred remains
Each time learned user gets 5 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---
TP: 5
SP: 45/125

Tetsu readjusted his lab coat as he pulled some potted Ghost lace up onto his desk, as he observed the lacy appearing plant that allowed the person whom intakes it to see invisible things, such as Loki, Tetsu thought to himself with a chuckle as he gently grabbed a magnifying glass off of his desk, and quickly began to use it to observe the plant overall. It looked like a mildew like lichen that was growing along the side of the pot opposed to in soil. The inside of the pot was covered with the milky white fungus. “Hmmm strange that it does this…but most lichens prefer to grow on something solid opposed to the loose soil, since they don’t have solid roots.” Tetsu said calmly as he began to look inside and out of the pot to make sure that he got a full view of the plant. Tetsu wanted to understand as much as possible about plants so that he could eventually achieve his end goal of being not only a police officer, but housing a research lab that that would allow him to house all of the knowledge of the Nara clan under one roof.

Slowly putting the pot down, Tetsu began to feel his understanding of the plant grow as he took the free moment to write down some notes about the Ghost lace. The spores that the Ghost lace constantly emitted allowed him to see invisible creatures or people in theory. It was the spores that were the useful part of the plant anyway. This specimen was almost all used up as it was for right this moment as he prepared to make note of how many dosages of the spores one plant could commonly produce. Tetsu figured that it would be about 4 50 ml dosages that could be inhaled or ingested. Either way, the plant itself was inherently harmless to humans on its own. In fact, it produced a special chakra that was absolutely made the special eyesight possible. In fact there were some lichens that allowed individuals to see in the dark period. Tetsu decided that he would focus on reading up on these as well as he took his time putting the pot back where it belonged.

[Celaena Kamyuja]

Plus ten.

83 | 175SP

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[Ace Detective Nara]

0/5 Training Points

Botany (Underworld)
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A skill that allows the user to identify plants.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A character with this skill has a basic knowledge of plants and how they grow. They know how to tell various species of plants apart and under what conditions each type of plant grows best. Most of the time they can tell poisonous plants from non-poisonous plants. User must choose a specific Region each time they go up this Skill. A successful Botany Skill check provides knowledge of plants, while failure indicates the character does not know or cannot recall anything about that plant. Each Skill level allows the user knowledge of each Herb category (Example: Novice can identify Common Herbs, Master can identify Nearly Impossible Herbs) within a region. Here is some Difficulty Examples.
Trivial - Plant is in bloom
Easy - Plant is whole
Average - Identify plant fruit, leaves, tubers or seeds
Difficult - Parts of plant in a mixture or food
Very Difficult - Identify plant from charred remains
Each time learned user gets 5 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---
TP: 15
SP: 83/125

Tetsu was beginning to better understand some of the plants that often lived under the earth in caves, or inside damp, cool structures that might emulate a cave environment. In the underworld, some of the most interesting Lichens and fungus could be found. In fact, the rare Bittermourn plant, which increases the life span of any alchemist that knows how to handle it, is among one of these rare interesting plants that reside within the cool dampness of the caves of the underworld. Taking out his field guild, Tetsu began to read up on the assorted rarer plants that exited underground. The book explained that all of the plants that exist underground prefer damp, cool soil for their roots to take part in, if they have roots. Fungus on the other hand also was a common growth type that appeared underground. Picking up one of the potted mushrooms that he had been studying for a while now, Tetsu began to observe the odd porous composure of the plant. “Strange.” He muttered to himself as he took note of the plant’s physical appearance, as well as the properties of the spores that it sprout. Unlike the Ghost Lace Fungus, this mushroom could prove harmful according to the reports that Tetsu read about it in the Horologist’s handbook.

“Hmm so it has some sort of genjutsu affect or something?” Tetsu read on about the strange mushroom that he himself, and a few other researches had been studying for the past few days or so. As far as they could tell, this mushroom was extremely rare, if not impossible to find; however it seemed to act like hallucinogen, in that it gave anyone who inhaled the spores that it secreated from time to time odd hallucinations that would affect them for a good while. “Sounds scary as shit…” He muttered quietly, thinking about an opponent who would use such a mushroom as a weapon. Dying in a hallucination just sounds God awful if Tetsu had to say so. Taking the mushroom and carfully taking it back over to the plant beds, Tetsu made sure not to give the mushroom any reason to release it’s spores. If it did that, it would be game over for himself and the team of botanists working at the greenhouse. Tetsu did his best to gently place the fungus back where it belonged as he made notes of it in his notebook and went back to his study area.

[Ace Detective Nara]

0/5 Training Points

Botany (Underworld)
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A skill that allows the user to identify plants.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A character with this skill has a basic knowledge of plants and how they grow. They know how to tell various species of plants apart and under what conditions each type of plant grows best. Most of the time they can tell poisonous plants from non-poisonous plants. User must choose a specific Region each time they go up this Skill. A successful Botany Skill check provides knowledge of plants, while failure indicates the character does not know or cannot recall anything about that plant. Each Skill level allows the user knowledge of each Herb category (Example: Novice can identify Common Herbs, Master can identify Nearly Impossible Herbs) within a region. Here is some Difficulty Examples.
Trivial - Plant is in bloom
Easy - Plant is whole
Average - Identify plant fruit, leaves, tubers or seeds
Difficult - Parts of plant in a mixture or food
Very Difficult - Identify plant from charred remains
Each time learned user gets 5 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---
TP: 15
SP: 83/125

Tetsu quickly reached over his desk to grab onto a bottle that had been placed there, that housed some sort of plant that was producing clean oxygen; which was why the bottle itself appeared to fog up as Tetsu opened up the bottle to release the pressure that had built up inside of the bottle. “Wow…that’s pretty cool, I wonder what kind of plant this is.” He asked as he looked the plant over, making sure to check the oxygen levels of the bottle; which were extremely high. The herb must have been producing clean oxygen within the jar itself. In fact, Tetsu began to feel the air within the musky greenhouse beginning to improve as he opened up the bottle. “Whoa…” Tetsu said as he noticed the obvious difference in air quality. This plant quickly transformed the air that was around him into clean fresh air. Putting the bottle down, Tetsu quickly began to write in his notebook about lichen that resided inside the bottle. “Hmm I feel like this plant as a name like Air maker or something…” Tetsu said ironically as he had just named the plant he was looking at without knowing it. Taking the lichen and bottling it up once more, Tetsu found himself hoping that the air had not been too refreshed, seeing as the other plants would prefer an environment that was musky, cool and wet.

“I wonder if you could put these things into a gas mask of sorts, allowing the plant to purify the air instead of the filter.” Tetsu asked himself as he began to make not of what the organism itself looked like. The Lichen was greenish in color, and appeared like most other wall planted lichens of the type; however this one produced clean, breathable air that was extremely important. A lot of times, this plant was taken into mines so that the miners would have clean air to breathe; however Tetsu wondered if there could be any other uses for the plant. Looking into this, he began to rummage through the old parchment books that sat on his desk, looking for the lichen that was before him. It took him a few minutes; however he stumbled across the Air Maker Lichen easily, seeing as it was not the most uncommon plant on the planet, and in fact like he suspected was very commonly found in mines. In fact it was common practice to grow them there as well; which only helped to increase the population of the plant. “awesome,” Tetsu said as he read about the underground loving air maker.

[Madame Loki]

My dice are some what fond of you.


+10 TP | + 27sp 

110/125sp

[Ace Detective Nara]

0/100

Kage Nui, 影縫い (Shadow Sewing)
Rank: "A" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ----
Special: "Hanseals"
Drawback: Cannot move while using this technique, must be stationary, can only use the Kagemane while using this technique.
Description: Forming hand seals, the user of this jutsu can extend their shadow and create multiple tangible tendrils for various purposes. Such purposes can include using them as stabbing weapons, rope for binding an opponent. The user extends their shadow either up their own body with Kagemane, or up their opponents body once caught in Kagemane. Then, forming some handseals, 5 shadow like tendrils are formed that can be used to tie down appendages, stabbing weapons, and rope like wire. The tendrils are not very strong at all, in fact, they can barely rip through skin, but they can if concentrated hard enough on the technique. It must also be used simultaneously with Shadow Imitation Technique, so it is possible to split the shadow and use both Justus at the same time. Each time learned, the user can create two more tendrils.
Limit: Nara Clan Technique, Must have knowledge of the Shadow Imitation Technique "B" Rank

Tetsu found himself stepping out of the greenhouse for a bit as he decided that it was finally time to put something he had been formulating together into practice. He felt his Kagemane based chakra beginning to swirl within his chest as he began to focus the Nara based Chakra into his shadow. The infusion process was extremely similar to that of the Kagemane no jutsu; however it felt different this time somehow. The shadowy Chakra that normally flowed only along the ground, seemed to feel much lighter than it normally did. With that notion, Tetsu quickly began the process of condensing the chakra into a single strand, just as he normally did so when using the Kagemane no Jutsu.

He condensed the chakra so finely, that suddenly his shadow not only extended forward, but began to jump up from the ground in some sort of physical manifestation. Confusion overwhelmed Tetsu, as he had no clue as to what was going on. The Physical manifestation of his own shadow was a concept that was completely foreign to Tetsu, seeing as he had never seen or heard of the Shadow Sewing Technique up till that point. He felt a combination of empowerment, and fear as the odd shaky tendril slowly attempted to grow from within his very shadow.

“What…What is this?” Tetsu asked himself quietly as he noticed that his shadow was forming a tendril like structure from within his very shadow. It was only one, and it wasn’t very stable; however it was something new that Tetsu had not yet experienced. He focused on keeping the chakra within his very shadow condensed as he tried to influence it with some degree of control. It feel strange moving this shadow on a three dimensional plane; however, this powerful technique was something that Tetsu would have to learn to manipulate if he was to have any hope of becoming stronger like his friend Loki, or their squad leader Amarante. Tetsu felt himself focusing on condensing the Shadow’s end into a point, reminiscent of a sewing needle. Tetsu figured that this would make it much easier to pierce things with this strange Kagemane he had just discovered. It was odd indeed that he would do so without knowing the name of said technique; however it was an enjoyable experience all the same. His chakra allowed him to mold the tendril to his will to some degree; however it resisted him more than it should have been doing so.

“How do I control this more flawlessly?” He asked himself as he began to focus on the amount of chakra that was imputed into the technique, and how much he really wanted to move this shadow about. He visualized the moving shadow’s three dimensional control, and put it into the same perspective that the Kagemane worked under. He slowly let the trendily extend its way forward, making head way in attempting basic controls first before doing anything super intensive. The Tendril responded with a simple stretch forward as Tetsu only forced it to do simple things at this early stage in its development. Tetsu figured that if he could learn some handseals for this bad boy as well, then it wouldn’t be quite as difficult to control. Tetsu figured that he would focus on actually constructing the shadow and controlling it before he would ever dream of creating more tendrils to move about. In the end, it was his hope to eventually get to that point however difficult it might be. Oddly enough, Tetsu believed firmly that he would have to better himself, and actually put effort into his training if there was to be any hope of success.

“Ah man, what a pain this is going to be” He whined as he felt his control over the shadow fading. He couldn’t hold onto the unstable nature of the shadow in its current state. “Hmm I guess I’ll have to…” Tetsu muttered to himself as suddenly a voice rang out behind him. “Ah, so I see you’ve stumbled across the Kage Nui.” He heard in a familiar tone as his mother approached him from behind. His Shadow Tendril completely sank back into its original point as his mother put her hand on his shoulder. “How about I teach you how it’s really done.” She said softly as Tetsu sighed at the thought.

[Ace Detective Nara]

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Tetsu felt embarrassed as his mother flawlessly produced 11 Tendrils with her shadow, all of which moved independently from her person. Tetsu remembered the handseals he had watched her form as he began to focus his chakra down into his shadow. The odd feeling of his chakra moving in such a direct nature to his shadow was quite strange, in fact it was much different than that of the Kagemane no Jutsu. The Kage Nui Technique moved on an XYZ plane that would mean that he would have to focus much more on how to move the shadow around in a physical manifestation of his shadow itself. As he focused his chakra all into one point within his shadow, Tetsu began to visualize the tendril that he wanted to create. Now with all of his preparations ready, he felt comfortable moving his hands to form the string of handseals for the first time. As he did his best to remember the seals themselves from watching his mother preform the technique, He slowly at a comfortable pace formed the handseals that the technique required to manifest itself.

As his hand seals moved to a state of completion, Tetsu began to feel something strange wash over him as he began to feel the tendril growing form his shadow in a way that was a new experience. Keeping his mind clear and focused as put his mental capacity towards controlling the still slightly shaky Tendril that looked as if it would have preferred not to exit. It was sluggish to respond to his commands; however He figured this was a common occurrence with learning the technique for the first time. As his shadowy Tendril began to slowly react to his commands, he felt himself sighing with relief. It was excellent that he didn’t have to worry too much about all of this. As his shadow slowly began to respond more fluently as he began to evenly distribute his chakra along the entirety of the tendril itself. It was a slow and meticulous process; however it was obviously something he would have to do until he got the feel for making a complete set of tendrils that he could control without a second thought. The goal was to create these things almost subconsciously after all. With that thought in mind, Tetsu quickly began to try basic commands with his tendril that was still active.

Quickly letting his eyes dart over to one of the flower pots that were resting outside of the greenhouse, Tetsu quickly decided that he would practice controlling the tendril with basic tasks that would allow him to exercise his extend of control over his own shadow. As he slowly extended his shadow towards the pot, he felt his own reluctance to the idea spark as the black tendril shakily moved towards the pot in attempt to get closer so that it could attempt to pick it up. With that thought in mind, Tetsu began to gently wrap his shadow around the clay pot that he really didn’t want to break on his first go. As his shadow meticulously warped itself around the pot tightly three times or so before it attempted to lift the clay pot, Tetsu made sure that the pot wouldn’t be damaged by his attempt to practice his Kagemane no Jutsu. He watched as the Tendril headed his commands with relative ease. It was a comfort that controlling one was proving to be not as difficult as he thought it would be initially. Tetsu felt himself preparing to move the pot from location to another as the shadow began to make its powerful ability to do so know.

As Tetsu’s shadow began to move the pot from a one location to another, he felt the tendril lift up the pot with ease. “Not bad.” He heard his mother state from behind him as he maintained his focus on controlling the tendril. It was a calming situation indeed, he loved that his shadow was so malleable; however it was quite draining. He was beginning to feel a little bit of strain from maintaining the Technique as his shadow slowly moved the pot out of his way to the side, just as he would have hoped it would do. Tetsu then slowly released the technique, letting the tendril fade back into his shadow as it completed the task he had set for it. It was perfect indeed. He let himself fall backwards onto his bum as he felt a little bit exhausted from preforming the Technique. “Damn, that takes a lot out of ya.” He said as mother sighed with annoyance. “Yeah…keep at it kiddo, I’ll check up on you later.” She said as Tetsu pushed himself back up, ignoring the slight exhaustion the technique left him in. “I guess I’ll Keep at it then.” He said quietly as he focused on continuing practicing.

[Ace Detective Nara]

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Tetsu felt himself recovering from previously using the weakened version of the Kage Nui as he began to focus on creating not only one tendril, but a second one that would be able to help him out even more than just a single tendril would be able to do so. Focusing his chakra down into his shadow, as was traditional of the Kage Nui, Tetsu began to distribute the chakra in between the two tendrils that he was attempting to create to the best of his ability. With that notion in mind, Tetsu began to feel his chakra more evenly distributed among each tendril as he began to focus on making a condensed version of each tendril. He felt control over his own condition becoming much better as he prepared to form handseals to perfect his tendrils into a manifested version of the Kage Nui that wanted to dearly to practice.

Tetsu felt his hands moving, focusing his chakra in the similar way that meditation would as he began to feel the chakra build up that began to focus into separate tendrils began to manifest into a physical form, much like he had hoped that they would. “Ah, wonderful.” He said as the first tendril flawlessly came to life right before his eyes. It was amazing what one could do with their shadow, he thought to himself as he looked over to the second tendril which was not quite as successful as the first one. Tetsu felt a flash of frustration as he quickly began to focus more attention towards the second tendril.

Tetsu began to monitor the chakra flow into the second tendril as he began to control it directly. In fact the first tendril began to do a silly waving motion as Tetsu began to make it much easier to control the second tendril. Tetsu’s efforts became less strained as his mind was more focused on just a single things opposed to just a single target that would have made it much easier to control just one at a time, reducing the multitasking. Tetsu felt the similar control that he had for the first one as he began to work on control of both at the same time. The first one was easily following each command that he mentally gave it; however, the second one was still reluctant to move. As Tetsu mentally focused on himself, Tetsu did his best to mentally focus on controlling both at the same time.

“Ugh…Multitasking…” Tetsu muttered to himself as he quickly began to slowly give each tendril simple tasks. By doing so, it would make it much easier to control more than just on at a time much easier. It was grueling only preforming simple tasks. Tetsu felt relaxed as he simply worked on controlling each one in turn. Tetsu focused on using his two tendrils to pick up the pot this time, using both to wrap it up around clay pot as his tendrils simply wrapped around the pot, moving it from one location to another. By focusing his two tendrils on the same task, Tetsu found it much easier to command them in this manner. Gently placing the pot on the ground, he continued to focus on making more tendrils.

[Ace Detective Nara]

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Tetsu relaxed as he began to feel control over the second tendril beginning to solidify. It was worrisome at first when he had lacked us controlling quality in the second tendril; however as he practiced just preforming simple tasks, Tetsu began to feel much more confident in his ability to control and maneuver the Shadowy Tendrils that were part of the Shadow Sewing’s nature. Nodding his head with approval as he began to easily preform one task with both tendrils, he decided to step it up a notch, going as far as to practice doing more advanced tasks, such as taking the spade that was laying upon the ground just a few feet from his person, an using one of his tendrils to dig the soil, while the first held the pot in place. The thought amused Tetsu as he began to mobilize his shadows in the direction of the simple pot.

First, he focused on taking the pot that his tendrils had placed on the ground, and mobilizing it over to where the spade was. This was the first step in controlling each one separately as he took the first tendril, using it to wrap up the pot with care as he easily moved it over to where the spade was. Secondarily, Tetsu willed the second strand to wrap itself around the handle of the shovel like spade as he began to mentally visualize his tendrils digging a hole. With a chuckle, Tetsu began to feel himself using his tendrils in the same manner that one would use arms, as an extension of his very body.

“Alright, let’s see how this goes.” He said as he began to send the commands to each in turn to do their part. The first tendril tightened its grip around the pot as the second tendril quickly took the spade that it was in control of, and quickly lowered it into the ground, disinterring some of the earth that had been lightly compacted outside of the green house. The shadow’s moved about, continuing to dig out the soil at Tetsu’s will, slowly at first, as he began to excises his control over the tendrils. It was wonderful, in fact, if he could get more he might be able to multitask to such a degree that he would have 11 hands to do his bidding just as his mother exhibited not too long ago. “I can do this.” He said as the control of the tendrils began to feel like second nature.

As Tetsu’s tendrils filled up an entire potting pot, Tetsu quickly used his first tendril to take the soil over to the compost pile not too far away from his body, dumping the contents out. Tetsu then using the same first tendril, brought it back over to the spade so that the process of digging the soil could continue. Tetsu felt confident in his ability to move his tendrils about at his own will as the shadow continued to dig out the soil, just as he had wanted. “Perfect,” Tetsu said happily as he began to repeat the digging process over and over again, maybe eventually getting to the point where he might even be able to pot plants using his shadow. How strange, a shadow planting a plant in the sunlight…how odd, Tetsu thought to himself as he continued to use his shadow to assist with his work.

[Celaena Kamyuja]

Plus 40

[Ace Detective Nara]

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Tetsu felt comfortable with the two tendrils as he allowed the Kage Nui to dispel once again, figuring he was ready to attempt at creating another tendril. “hmm I guess I’ll have to focus my chakra into three separate portions…” he muttered quietly to himself as he began to mentally focus his attention to that of his shadow as his chakra began to focus down to his iconic shadowy control keeping his composure, he began to divide how he distributed the chakra, Tetsu focused on creating not only the two tendrils that he had been so familiar with, but now a third one that would, like the others, prove a struggle until he got some more practice with it. With that thought in mind, Tetsu began to mentally focus his attention to manifesting the three tendrils at the same time.

As his hands began to move, Tetsu felt his chakra beginning to surge down into his shadow, forming three tendrils like he had intended. It was strange, seeing as now he had two that were compliant with his commandeering; however the third, like the other two at first, moved sluggishly, as if it was resisting his influence over the shadow for which belonged to himself. “Come on…” He groaned as he kept the other three tendrils stationary while he practiced moving the third tendril, teaching himself in steps just like how a baby first learned to crawl. This slow grueling process was quite annoying; however he figured it was better to work hard, then to let himself die when out in the field.

“How shameful would that be…Loki would never let me live that down.” Tetsu said with a chuckle at the thought. He quickly began to advance the third tendril forward in an attempt to get use to moving the newly formed tendril that was only just created a few instances ago. The movements were very similar to that of the other two tendrils, so it wasn’t unbelievably hard to figure out how to move the tendril on its own. In fact, it was getting increasingly ease, Tetsu thought to himself as he let the three dimensional shadow to wiggle along the ground like a snake, advancing it forward in the same manner that he would move the Kagemane no jutsu.

Tetsu’s mapped out how he was going to move the shadowy tendril as he let it continue to extend forward while he kept the other shadowy tendrils stationary. The shadowy extension found its way around to the greenhouse windows as Tetsu used his shadow tendril to climb up to the window slowly. He figured that meager tasks had worked for the other two, why not this one. In fact, doing simple tasks with his shadow as not a bad method of training at this rate. Letting his Shadow climb up to the same level as the window, he allowed the shadow slide under the window pane so that it could begin to start pulling the window open. The plants inside of that greenhouse prefer direct sunlight, so doing this was something Tetsu would have had to get around at some point anyway.

His control over his shadow was beginning to feel much more solid than it had been with the other two. Truthfully, Tetsu figured that obtaining more tendrils wouldn’t be quite as difficult as it was at first. Slowly, Tetsu shadowy extension pulled the window open, just as he commanded. “Awesome,” He said to himself as he allowed the shadow to retract back towards its point of origin. Now it was time to practice using it in conjunction with its brethren. Nodding his head in personal agreement to the through, Tetsu prepared for the true challenge.

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Tetsu looked for something for him to practice on as his three shadowy tendrils occupied his shadow. His three active tendrils made his appearance look much like one would think a dark octopus might act, with the tentacle like tendrils moving about his shadow in an organized fashion. Noticing an old stump, Tetsu quickly decided that he would use his shadowy tendrils to uproot this beast of a task that honestly he himself didn’t want to do by hand. Letting his tendrils receive their command from his mental technique to the extension of his own body, Tetsu advanced his three tendrils towards the stump post-haste. He wanted this task to be completed as quickly as possible. Nodding his head in approval, Tetsu quickly focused on controlling all three of the tendrils at one time. This was something that he had yet to attempt, so it was going to be some trial and error at first, Tetsu figured as he prepared to uproot the stump.

His Tendrils quickly began to wrap around and under the stump as he used one of the tendril’s sharp nature to dig under the tree and get underneath it. His other two Tendrils wrapped around the stump as if it were going to hold it in place opposed to rip it out of the ground. “How strange.” Tetsu thought to himself as he began to will his tendrils to move upwards, in an attempt to rip the tree out of the ground. The stump, though securely wrapped up, didn’t budge. “What gives?” Tetsu asked as he observed the obstacle that was the tree stump itself. “Hmm,” He muttered as he observed the tree in hopes of finding out why his tendrils weren’t strong enough to rip it from the ground. His tendrils did exactly as he had told them to; however the tree gave nothing.

Tetsu began to command his tendrils to attempt to rock the stump back and forth. This got a little bit of a response as the three tendrils worked as a team to attempt to move the stump; however it was in the round fairly tight, and refused to give up. Tetsu sighed as his tendrils continued to fight with the wooden enemy that seemed to be defeating him at this moment in time. It was tough thinking about how he might lose to a tree. “Not today.” He said calmly as he crossed his arm and allowed his tendrils to do their thing. They were doing fairly well; however there just was no room for budging.

Tetsu quickly changed his mode of through as he took the third tendril that had been under the tree stump, and quickly redirected it to piercing the ground over and over again like a spear. He was hoping that he might be able to disconnect the tree with the ground. This third tendril moved at the same time as the other two that were focused on lifting the tree from the ground. The combined efforts were quite effective at this point as the tree began to budge a little bit. Obviously by damaging the root system, one could possibly dislodge the stump from the ground with relative ease. This was Tetsu’s mind set as he quickly did his best to change is focus into removing the tree from the ground by piercing all of the supporting roots with his sharp Kagemane Nui tendril.

His tendril continued to stab the ground aggressively as he used it as if it were a weapon. In all honesty, the Kagemane Nui was a weapon; however it had utility uses as well obviously. As his shadow continued to pierce the ground, he found himself enjoying the activity a little too much. “I need to get a hobby.” Tetsu said as his shadow finally destroyed enough of the supporting roots to allow his other two strands to pull up the tree stump. “There we go,” Tetsu commented on his shadow’s combined efforts that had made it possible to complete the task. He was glad that he was getting the basic concepts of the Kagemane Nui that was now looking to be an extreme improvement onto his own technique list. He hoped that Loki would be impressed when he saw how much strong she had gotten.

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Tetsu released the technique as the tree stump came out of the ground with a bit of a disappointing thump. “Alright, I think I can handle four now.” He said calmly as he began to revert his focus back into the mindset of the Kage Nui. As he began to feel his focus going back into focus, he quickly began to channel his chakra down into his shadow. The familiar sensation of the chakra flooding into the black mass that inhabited the base of his body brought him into a sense of calm that he had always taken for granted. As he began to divide the chakra into four even portion, Tetsu prepared himself to not only control four equal portion of his shadow, but to learn with a single tendril at a time just as he had with the other three. Putting himself to test, Tetsu quickly began to form the handseals.

As his hands met completion, he felt his shadow beginning to react to his influence that he so openly exerted over his own shadow. His chakra began to mold into the very fabric of his shadow as three shadowy tendrils rose up out of his shadow. His fourth tendril was slow as he had expected it to be at this point. Obviously it was a common theme with learning a new technique that one would have to work with it a bit before it was perfectly ready for combat practice. As he decided that this time he would attempt to use his shadow to preform another mundane task, Tetsu began to focus his control towards the fourth tendril specifically as he made sure that it moved under his control.

His shadow slowly moved forward at a steady pace. Tetsu didn’t rush the shadow as he noticed an ax over in the ax yard not too far away. Tetsu decided that he would use, and train his new tendril by chopping wood with the ax, which Tetsu thought might be an interesting way to practice doing so. Putting his faith into this, Tetsu attempted to pick the ax up with his shadow. His newly created fourth tendril responded duly; however it didn’t seem to want to hold a firm grip onto the ax. Tetsu quickly put his mental focus into making the ax steady as he slowly forced the tendril to lift itself up into a chopping pose. Using Gravity, he forced the tendrils to stiffen up as he slammed the ax downward onto one of the logs that had been placed there to be chopped.

The ax had not been steady enough when Tetsu had initiated his swing. The tendril had missed the wooden block entirely and stuck the head of its ax into the ground. “Aw come on!” He shouted half-heartedly as he had the tendril slowly pull the ax out of the ground. He was getting the hang of the general control of the Kage Nui; however there were still some obvious problems. Tetsu was going to be quite happy when he had finished getting as many tendrils as he could physically process at this point, because he was fed up with how sluggish and shaky the tendril seemed to be, even in the developmental stage it was in.

As Tetsu lifted the Ax back up with his shadowy Tendril, he mentally focused on keeping the ax head straight and keeping the tendril under control as he prepared for the downward swing. It was impressive indeed that he managed to do so with relative ease. In fact, this time he felt a good deal of control over the shadowy tendril that was now completely under his command. With that in mind, Tetsu quickly forced the tendril downward towards the log, He was pleased with the wooden think that responded to his ax splitting it straight down the middle. The wooden clatter of the wood pieces as they landed on either side of the chopping block pleased Tetsu quite a bit. His Kage Nui was ready to be put into prospective.

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Tetsu felt his four tendrils in a state of complete control as he relaxed a bit at the thought. “Man you know, this has been quite interesting.” He said to himself as he felt his shadow beginning to yield to his ever command. Quickly willing is tendril that had been cutting wood to return to his person, He mentally prepared himself to multitask with all four of the tendrils at one time. As his shadowy tendrils returned to his shadow, their point of origin, he quickly felt a good deal of control as he willed them all to move forwards along the ground like a snake would move. Four shadowy snake like movements slithered along the ground lazily as he commanded them forwards with a good deal of confidence that they would heed him without resistance. This was the case; however he failed to find any task that he wanted them to do, so instead, he decided to use them to bind something up. Looking for something that would make a good example, Tetsu quickly began to think of ways he could restrain targets with his four shadowy extensions.

Finding a scarecrow in one of the fields only a little bit away from where he was standing, Tetsu quickly allowed his shadowy tendrils to shoot forwards at the target with the speed of his Kagemane no Jutsu, which was 15 meters per second. He quickly wrapped his shadowy extensions around the two arms that extended out to the side of the scarecrow. Using his tendrils to quickly wrap around the appendage in an attempt to bind it, or to the very least restrain it, Tetsu found himself enjoying the events of the day a little more than he thought he would. He didn’t say a word as he watched his shadow wrap around both arms with ease, which would normally put an opponent at an extreme disadvantage, if not stopping them entirely. This was on the ways one could use the Kage Nui.

As his third tendril wrapped around the torso of the straw stuffed creature, he began to see that if a person was within the grasp of his Kage Nui like this, he could lift them up in the air like some sort of tentacle porn...”Yeah definitely not that.” Tetsu said shaking his head as he pushed the thought from his mind. That was just too weird for him. As he let the third tendril tighten its grasp around the torso of the scarecrow, he prepared to position his fourth tendril in a place that would in theory be the killing blow on an opponent. It was this final maneuver that would possibly end the fight with either a successful mission, or to the very least a dead opponent.

As his forth shadow portion quickly shot out towards the scarecrow like he figured it would, it didn’t attempt to bind it like the other portions had. It targeted the creature’s straw stuffed throat in an attempt to kill the target then and there. Tetsu quickly condensed his chakra at the end point of the shadow so that when it made contact with the cloth bound straw, it would quickly pierce it like a needle; which is where the Kage Nui’s name is derived from. With the sewing action in motion, Tetsu quickly prepared to watch the Scarecrow take the full blunt of the hit. If this had been an actual opponent, they would have been helpless to stop his shadow from piercing their throat in the middle of a combat situation that would in the end, be in his favor.

His shadow needle like tendril quickly pierce the neck of the scarecrow with ease. In fact, it went a little overboard, knocking the poor objects head clean off. “Whoa. I guess I overdid it a little bit.” Tetsu said as his shadow tendrils quickly retreated back towards his shadow point of origin. He as beginning to feel quite tired from using the technique over and over again; however he had enough energy to get the basics down. With that encoring thought in mind he prepared for another go at the technique before he took a break and went back to studying the lame plants he would be collecting at some point.

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Tetsu felt his confidence building as he felt prepared for the fifth tendril. “Alright, bring it on.” He said as he approached one of the outside desks that housed a few of the herbs that were left out to dry. Quickly focusing his chakra down into his shadow, he felt the sensation of his chakra being woven in within his shadow once again. Now dividing his charka up into five separate parts, Tetsu focused on preparing himself for five separate tendrils; which could prove to be quite difficult if he wasn’t too careful. With that in mind, he began to even distribute his charka within his shadow to five separate equal portions within his shadow so that he could quickly and effectively create the tendrils with ease. Figuring that there would be some initial resistance as always, Tetsu prepared for this as he began to weave the seals with his hands.

As his hands complete the seals, his shadow quickly jumped to life, just as he had begun to grow accustom to. It was strange that he was experiencing such a strange experience in this moment as he watched the five tendrils form from his very shadow as if it were second nature. Well, to the very least the four of the five tendrils grew from his shadow with ease. The fifth one, like expected, resisted him a little bit as it came into existence. Tetsu sighed as the Kage Nui seemed to follow a simple, yet devious pattern that must have been formulated by the Nara clan centuries ago. “This is quite impressive.” Tetsu said as he quickly put only his fifth tendril to work; which was his method of gaining control over each one in turn. This would hopefully prove advantageous as he slowly let the black, snake-like tendril crawl up his worktable so that he could use it as an extension of his body.

As the Shadow got into position, Tetsu quickly used it to wrap itself around a vial that he had been wanting to grab and take a look at; however, he figured that it would be better to get some practice in with his shadow first as he used his shadow to pick up the 100 ml vial. The black extension wrapped itself around the vial with relative ease as it slowly lifted it up, still shaky; however it was still controlled. Tetsu brought the vail over by his face, using the shadow as a medium as he observed the liquid inside. “Hmm seems like some of the anti-aging sere stuff that bitter mourn produces.” Tetsu observed as he noticed the blue tint to the liquid inside of the vial.

His shadow did it’s best to remain steady as he slowly had the tendril return the vial from the location it had been taken from. The shadow responded to him as if it was his own arm, putting the vial back with ease as it quickly returned to a ready position, ready to be commanded. His control over his fifth tendril felt fairly solid as he too that free moment to realize he had done fairly well in training his shadow, as he always seemed to do. Now extending his shadow forward to pick up one of the books on the desk, the shadow immediately responded this time, as if it was already eager to begin working in tandem with the other tendrils.

As Tetsu had his shadow warp around the book, he felt himself becoming much more skillful with his shadow. In fact, his shadow responded to his command to lift it up into the air as his shadow quickly carried it up into the air, right in front of his face. Crossing his arms, Tetsu was pleased with himself. With that notion, Tetsu had the Kage Nui tendril lower the book back to the work table. It was time to get serious. He felt his complete control over the technique coming into fruition as he prepared to actually put himself to the test. To test his limits, and overall prove that he could control the physical manifestation of his own shadow.

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Tetsu was now ready to use all five of the Kage Nui tendrils together, in perfect tandem. This was what the technique was built for, and he was ready to take this road to victory, putting a few more tricks up his sleeve. With that, he quickly recalled his five shadow tendrils, and prepared to engage them into a striking like nature instead of a binding like he had been doing for the most part as he had learned each tendril step by step. Quickly advancing his shadow forward towards the scarecrow he had attacked earlier, it was the closest thing to a target he could find at that point. His shadows in totality were ready to engage as they quickly changed direction to engage the odd straw built construct. He advanced four Tendrils just like last time, keeping one close to his body as it climbed up his leg in search of something.

As His four shadow strands advanced, Tetsu quickly focused their four ends into points so that they would act like the sewing needles that the technique shared its namesake for. It was at this point that Tetsu also allowed the fifth tendril to slip into his butt bag, producing one of his shuriken from his butt bag. The black strand quickly wrapped around the metallic weapon as it slowly retreated from inside Tetsu’s butt bag, and produced the weapon, hiding it behind Tetsu’s back as he waited for the shadows to pierce the scarecrow. Finally as they did so, Tetsu quickly allowed his fifth tendril to reveal itself, throwing the shuriken as if it were an arm.

This was probably the most impressive thought Tetsu had yet to come up with on the fly. It was obvious that the Kage Nui could grab onto things, but this also made it apparent to Tetsu that they could throw things, or even with some training catch thrown objects. That in Tetsu’s opinion was slick as fuck. He was in love with the technique, and figured that with five tendrils he could do quite a bit. Having more would be even better, but for now this was a decent about. His shadowy tendrils left huge holes in the scarecrow as they quickly retreated back to their commander in victory as the shuriken quickly struck the straw stuffed being in the chest afterward.

“This is beautiful.” Tetsu said joyfully as his shadowy tendrils retreated, weaving about in their point of origin, his shadow. It was so wonderful to have control of so many three dimensional shadows that could easily be commanded like a spear being thrown. In fact, this was much better than any spear. He now felt a bit more powerful than before as he allowed two tendrils to quickly reach into the back of his tactical vest to pull out one of his lighters and a cigarette. “I wonder if this works?” he asked himself mischievously as he took his time letting the shadow put the end of the cigarette into his mouth. Letting a slow smirk cross his face, he allowed the second shadow to receive assistance from a third tendril as it came over to flick the flint on the lighter for the second tendril.

Now ignited, the second tendril brought the lighter over to the end of Tetsu’s cigarette, lighting the end for him like a proper butler. “Man this is the life.” He said as he allowed his shadow to give in to the built up accumulative strain he was beginning to feel from preforming the technique multiple times. Letting the tendrils slowly fade back into his original shadow, he let the smoke trail off the end of his cigarette. He had done a pretty decent job controlling his tendrils, he thought to himself as he mentally reached the whole thing. Keeping in mind the few things that still needed fixing, he felt as if the technique itself had become second nature.

[Madame Loki]

~learned, enjoy your sewing