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Kemuri Madan (Smoke Magic Bullet)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User is able to manipulate the smoke to shoot high speed rounds of smoke into an opponent causing bruising, stopping damage.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: User is able to launch the smoke at their disposal into small fragments that are in the shame of bullets. When smashing into the opponent they cause enough destructive force able to leave bruises against the opponent before puffing out into small pellets of smoke. When the user first learns this technique they are able to launch at the most up to 6 Kemuri Madan (Smoke Magic Bullet) at an opponent in a single movement within this technique. When the user reaches "C" Class the number of Kemuri Madan (Smoke Magic Bullet) increases to 12. When the user is "B" Class the number of Kemuri Madan (Smoke Magic Bullet) increases to 24. When the user is "A" Class the number of Kemuri Madan (Smoke Magic Bullet) increases to 48. Finally when the user reaches "S" Class the number of Kemuri Madan (Smoke Magic Bullet) increases to 96 if the user wishes.
Limit: Must be a member of the Kasutā clan.

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Though smoke was more often used for deception than directly attacking it was more than capable of doing so. By infusing smoke with chakra, causing it to become more thick and viscous, one could cause smoke to turn into something to something solid. The surface tension held together by chakra would allow it to slam into objects with great force before it would dissipate.

Like many things revolving around smoke ninjitsu there was a certain level of fineese required to make it a viable offensive alternative. The first portion of Tachibana's training of such fineese involved training his ability to keep the smoke a round near-solid. By focusing chakra into smoke he could easily form it into a spherical shape, but keeping it that way necessitated a level of fine control he didn't normally have. Moreover, this was an ability that should have went tangential to attacking using his normal methods, meaning taijutsu. He needed to be able to do this while fighting, simultaneously.

The training was slow and methodical. He'd summon forth the sphere of gas to fly toward a target while fighting a dummy. Between the summoned location and the target he purposefully put many obstacles, some of which moved. This necessitated a certain tempo or attention to be taken to the frequency by which he summoned the balls and they flew. Dividing his attention in this way was difficult as every Taijutsu move in his arsenal was purposeful. Not properly paying attention to either thing would result in less than stellar results of missing a blow, or missing the target.

As time went on splitting his mind became a much simpler task. His brain had become able to cope with thinking about two things at once quite easily. Normally, such a thing was difficult because the brain was programmed to problem solve on one thing at a time, but the constant necessity to think about two things allowed him to achieve this at a relatively normal functional capacity. The controlling of the spheres became almost muscle memory. Slowly he increased the number of sphere he would allow to appear at a time until he reached his functional maxima. In the end, he found himself only able to control forty-eight at a time, though felt as if in the future it would be possible to control more. There was an invisible blockade in his mind that was likely a limitation set by whoever had founded the technique in order to not allow one to harm themselves. Accepting the limit he moved on.

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Furenchi Suikomu (French Inhale)
Rank: "C", "B", "A", "S"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User inhales some smoke, and quickly exhales double the amount that was inhaled for future techniques.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User is able to take any small amounts of smoke that is around them and may exhale double the amount of smoke they inhaled. A supplementary technique for other techniques. When the user first learns this technique the user is able to only inhale enough smoke the size of the user's body which takes up 1 movement. When the user learns the "B" rank version of this technique the user is able to inhale the amount of smoke up to 5 meters which takes up 2 movements. When the user learns the "A" Rank version of this technique the user is able to inhale the amount of smoke up to 10 meters which takes up 4 movements. When the user learns the "S" Rank version of this technique the user is able to inhale the amount of smoke up to 20 meters which takes up 8 movements. For every class the user is higher than "B" the amount of movements decrease by 2, with 1 movement being the lowest number.
Limit: Must be a member of the Kasutā clan.

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Many people didn't realize, care, or take the time to really think about it but the air was not a singular substance. What an individual colloquially called, 'the air' was a mixture of gases the majority of which wasn't even oxygen but nitrogen. As one went down the list of what comprised the air the bottom portion of the list - which formed the numerical (though not percentage) majority, was trace gases. When someone inhaled they inhaled this gases too, though usually not in concentrations or amount necessary to tell the difference or it matter.

The french inhale was a method that many Kasuta studied to near double the output of the gases commonly associated with smoke around them. By inhaling simple air and compressing it by holding it back for a time one could extract the maximum amount of oxygen from it. Doing this would result in the exhale being the maximum amount of carbon dioxide, and the high concentration of carbon dioxide when exhaled back out appeared almost smokey. This was the key and by training both lung capacity, oxygen retention, and physical fitness one could increase this amount exponentially.

Tachibana practiced deep breathing exercises the moment he was able to. The exercises were simple and helped with lung capacity and oxygen retention. By breathing in deeply holding the breath and then simply exhaling deeply, one could oxygenate the blood and get the maximum amount of oxygen per breath. While the human body was well designed for this, it was not perfect and only by exercising the lungs, diaphragm, and the control of them could one allow the body to 'learn' how to repeat this normally without such fine thought. Doing this increased his lung capacity far above the norm also, for when the body became capable of more efficiently using and gather oxygen, the usable space within the lungs became indirectly wider as well.

A secondary training exercise involved not breathing deeply at all, but rather allowing a pocket of 'emptiness' within the lungs. This went hand in hand with the deep breathing exercises, for this allowed for more space within the lungs. The pocket of 'nothing' was used to then compress air within the lungs down, causing a rush of oxygenation to the blood and allowing for all other gases to become much more concentrated within them. Initially, it was required for him to think deeply about the action of compression but eventually it became a regular response. The act of breathing out smoke became a normal thing for Tachibana, smoke billowing out with each breath he took. It became necessary for him to actually think about the opposite in fact.

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Botany (Forest)
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 Hearbs) 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: ---

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As child Tachibana - like many other children, had come to call the Forest of Death his playground. Though it had such an imposing name in reality most of the forest just outside of Konoha was relatively tame. ANBU, Genin, and Chuunin on patrol killed the larger animals and monsters close to the village. Thus, Tachibana lived a life where venturing out into the forest was the norm. As a child he could not help but have 'sticky fingers' - touching, grabbing, and testing everything. This meant more than often plants and this meant more than often he touched what he shouldn't have.

Quickly he had to learn what was safe and what wasn't safe to eat, as eating the wrong thing could run one the risk of losing their life. This was done very literally by eating nearly everything he came across as a child. More than often this meant trips to the hospital, sickness, rashes, and all sorts of other ailments caused by the carefreeness of a child. This harsh learning method meant that whenever he did learn of a horrible plant that could cause diahrrea or in give him a crazy rash, it was committed to memory such that he never touched it again. One could say that in this memorizing of flora and their properties it also ignited his alchemical spirit.

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Botany (Forest)
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 Hearbs) 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: ---

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As he grew older and wiser Tachibana abandoned the method of identifying and coming to know plants by eating and touching them with a more practical one. While many indivdiuals took to games and 'fun' physical activity, he took took to expanding his mind. It was a simple thing to keep a notepad of things he discovered on the outskirts of the village. These were relatively simple notes which only went into detail about specific details that allowed one to tell one plant from another, and whether any of those plants were poisonous. Color, odor, type, and whether or not the plant itself was poisoned were all the details that were afforded in his notes.

Eventually, Tachibana's notebook was filled and then he picked up another and then another. Each time he got a new notebook he'd categorize the previous one with a date range. Each time he got a new notebook the notebook lasted less time, as each time he learned to note things down in greater detail. Before he was out of the academy and beginning life as a Genin he had already filled ten notebook, averaging just over two each year since he started doing such. When it came time to actually do missions as a Genin he found his near encyclopedic knowledge of the flora around the village to be very useful. Genin often only engaged in missions close to the village, though some were actually dangerous. The advantages of knowing what plants were safe to eat and which would aid in the healing of cuts and bruises were great, and he found himself often relied upon to give such information when it was needed.

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Botany (Forest)
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 Hearbs) 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: ---

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Tachibana went on to develop his own methods of characterizing plants, taking a note from conventional method with his own spin. Each plant was characterized first based upon their general look. There were stalk plants, tuberous plants, leafy plants, bushes, trees, and a final category for mushrooms. For this he employed again the use of notebooks but instead used one notebook for each category. When going out on field expeditions he'd bring a simple bag which held these notebooks to be able to write in them his findings. Additionally, with this face-value interpretation of the plant he added in a hand drawn rough sketch of what the plant looked like. It didn't need to be perfect, one only needed a general idea for from there there were other ways to identify things.

He came up with a scale for odors, using his own meanings for the adjectives he used. Sweet smelling plants were those that were pleasant, something like a rose. Foul smelling plants were those that smelled extremely bad, something like a durian. There was also wood and leaf smelling plants and a category for 'other' which would include a small description of what he smelled. Finally, there was a note difference between strong and weak smells. Since odors were among the first generalizations one could make it was also used as a criteria for splitting things among sections of the notebook. Each notebook was given a section of equal pages for each odor category, if one was filled a new notebook was used for that category.

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Botany (Forest)
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 Hearbs) 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: ---

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Tachibana's notes continued to grow more intricate as he added more sections underneath each plants characteristics. The next two sections involved the appearance of the plant itself, its color and the appearance of it's stalk-section. Due to the fact that colors were very interpretable he used modern examples of the colors as indicators of what exact shade of 'green' or 'orange' he had meant. This allowed him to never mistake colors when he came back to review these notes in the future. He kept the comparisons to things that were unlikely to change, such as the color of the chuunin vest or the color of rice. This eliminated again a level of possibility of misidentification.

For the characteristics of the stalks of plants it was categorized by the difference in how fiberous it was. 'Green' stalks were reffered to as plant stalks which were not very fiberous at all, something similar to a small herb stem. Fiberous stalks were noted as something between 'green' stalks and 'woody' stalks, where it was very similar to something a bit like bamboo. Woody stalks were just that, hard and barklike, usually being brown. If the plant included many sections than each section was given a proper category according to these. The next set of characteristics involved things that were much harder to test and often they were not written the first time he came across any given plant but much later if he happened to get a second sample of it.

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Botany (Forest)
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 Hearbs) 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: ---

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The next characteristic by which he documented with his notes was something that could be very potentially dangerous, as he noted per his earlier attempts at it from a young age; taste. There were three primary ways in which he judged taste and only after he determined whether or not it was poisonous. Do determine if something was poisonous he would simply break up a bit of the material and then rub it on its skin. Though this wasn't a perfect indicator due to the possibility of rash coming from irritants or allergy he found it to be satisfactory for determining if something was particularly harmful. The skin would usually react terribly or he would come down with a mild illness. Even the plants that were irritants or would cause rashes were not then tasted, at least not using the first method.

The first method of tasting was the simplest method. He would simply break up a portion of the material and eat it, taking note of the exact flavor he came across. Broad categories were not good for this sort of thing and thus he made sure to go into as much detail as he could, even including whether it was planty or woody in such descriptions despite the category existing on a 'higher level' of categorization already. The plant as a whole was tasted as were its individual parts. If it was a flowering plant the flower had to be tasted, as well as the stalk, leaves, roots, and any other bits that were of the plant. This gave a complete profile of the taste of the plant where there was no other method of determine what it was. This was by far the method he used least in his travels due to its inaccuracy - many plants just tasted leafy or woody.

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Botany (Forest)
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 Hearbs) 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: ---

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The next method of identification involving boiling the plant. Many plants had tastes which were only present once they were properly dissolved in a medium. The medium he used was often simply distilled water - or water he trusted to not be tainted with too much minerals such that the combination of the minerals and the plants created a flavor that would cause misidentification. Each plant was boiled whole in water that had already gotten to a rolling boil for fifteen minutes. The pot was covered such to retain mositure and particulants that may be boiled off so that no possible flavor was missed. The first taste involved just a sip and an fifteen minute cool down time. The sip was designed to make sure that boiling the plant did not harbor any ill-effect. Then it would be ingested completely with the flavor noted.

This test was a bit more accurate than the first because the combination of heat and moisture often drew out hidden flavor. Most wild vegetables and herbs that were beneficial did not have much taste otherwise. Any beneficial properties of boiling the plant were also noted here, as boiling was an intrinsically alchemical process which would be useful elsewhere. Identifying and boiling a plant that was medicinal took but maybe a half an hour and when time was of the essence it could be the difference between life or death. Other effects were also noted as well, such as effects like that of mint that gave off a 'refreshing' taste. The 'refreshing' taste wasn't a taste at all but a sort of chemical process that caused whatever the boiled mint came into contact with to have an airy feeling. Such things while not entirely medicinal could be homeopathic or have effects that could stabilize the mind. It was not uncommon to have a mint tea in the winter in Konoha when on long patrols about the Forest of Death as it calmed and eased the nerves and anxiety.

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TP: 30

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Kemuritsuuwa (Smoke Calling)
Rank: "D", "C", "B", "A", "S"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User is able to bring any smoke that is around them within a certain range in order to use for attacks.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: User forms a few handseals and calls forth any remaining smoke that may be around then into a concentrated area to use for other techniques. When the user first learns this technique they are able to call smoke within the distance of 10 meters radius. When the user learns the "C" rank version of this technique the distance increases to 20 meters radius. When the user learns the "B" rank version of this technique the distance increases to 40 meters radius. When the user learns the "A" rank version of this technique the distance increases to 80 meters radius. When the user learns the "S" rank version of this technique the distance increases to 160 meters radius.
Limit: Must be a member of the Kasutā clan.

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Increasing Tachibana's range of control for smoke-based jutsu was difficult for him. It required him to essentially expand his mind in an unusual way. It was similar to exercising, only it included something that wasn't a muscle. By doing meditation involving controlling smoke and pushing it toward the outer edges of his control he could increase his control radius slowly to a certain point. Every meter of expansion felt like a stinging horrible migraine and every five felt like almost if his brain was about to explode. Regardless of such it was a necessary requirement of growing as a Kasuta, having such a small range of control was actually a detriment. It was far more likely an opponent was further away than they were closer when Kasuta was more useful.

This eventually became too slow a method for Tachibana's tastes and he moved on to a more rigorous method. By employing an individuals help he could expand his zone of control much quicker. First a source of smoke was placed near the edge of his control and he connected with it. Once this was done the source of smoke was quickly moved beyond the scope of his control. He would need to hold onto his connection to the smoke as it went, attempting to forcibly stretch out his control. This was a dangerous game as there was only so much his mind would take. Before he could take no more he would each time relinquish control and then it would start again.

As this too became too much of a slow method he went for an even more dangerous one. Instead of relinquishing control he would still hold onto it after he broached the threshold. Essentially, this would almost 'break' his mind every time. This breaking of his mind and stretching of his control would force his mind to rebuild itself every time - at least in terms of his domain. Breaking one's mind this way could be likened to literally having a psychotic break or mental breakdown. Each time he would have to wrest control of himself and become stable again. He pushed himself hard enough that this recovery time was not but a few minutes each time.

Over a period of a week he mixed the two methods depending on his mental cognition. Some days his mind was far too exhausted to do the forced method and other days it wasn't. Despite the pleading of those around him to stop he knew he had to go about this method to continue to push his own boundaries. The rate at which normal training afforded growth was far too slow for his tastes. Once he had reached the twenty meter radius marked as the second tier he trained his control simply in this range to allow for his accelerated growth to become stable. Without this training it was likely he would have lost his progress due to not being ready. The simple repetition of moving smoke from himself to the outer edges of his domain and back again over and over was enough to stabilize it in such a way that his domain was forever extended.

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Cautious Harvester
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User does not risk poisoning themselves when harvesting raw materials.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: When harvesting raw materials, the user never risks poisoning themselves. Normally the user must make a Cultivation check. If failed they will become poisoned. If the user has 25 ranks or more in an Knowledge Skill, they gain a +10 Synergy bonus to Alchemy to create Alchemical Items of that object.
Limit: Must be an Alchemist.

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There was a fineese to harvesting plants that started with knowledge of that plant. Only by knowing the parts of plants which dangerous could one even begin thinking they could effectively harm it - this again meant simply knowing all one could about the plant in question. Some plants were so poisonous that by merely touching them one would suddenly be poisoned and others could be handled easily. Some plants could be easily pulled up by their stalk, and others needed to be carefully dug out and bagged. Each plant was privy to their own conditionals and if they weren't it was more than likey one would ruin their efficacy.

Tachibana always did his herb hunts wearing work gloves, gloves which were designed to handle all sorts of situations. This would allow him to do whatever was needed to harvest the plant correctly. If he needed to pull the stalk it was strong enough to pull it about without breaking. If it was cutting off just one leaf they were deft enough to allow him to cut without hindering movement. While it seemed logical that all individuals should do this many didn't and gave into temptations of simply touching plants with their flesh.

His steel grip and monstrous strength helped in all other tasks relating to the proper removal of plants. By cupping his hands and slamming them into the ground with a level of precision that was only afforded to those who were martial artists he could use them like shovels when exposing roots was needed. The fingers also allowed much more fine control as one could conceivably dig between the roots much without fear of harming the plant. By using his immense finger strength afforded by learning DXS he could then simply collapse his hand into a fist slowly to pull the plant the rest of the way he needed to.

His journal of alchemical and botanical studies was also a line of defense against those plants which were poisonous, allowing him to refer to it at all times to make sure he was handling the plants correctly. Since he had encountered many of these plants on a more intimate level than simple surface-level knowledge of reading a book, he knew of many more ways to handle them without exposure. Ironically many of these notes were taken by having done just that on some level before. These notes combined with his careful steady hands and his fear of harming himself made any plant an easy harvest.

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Maendan (Dark Smoke Sphere)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User can unleash small smoke balls that release a thick dark smoke.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: The user launches balls of smoke at an opponent that explodes creating a more dense and intensified path of smoke capable of covering the size of a large person. The balls of smoke rise up before they slam forward into the opponent, or the general direction the user wishes. The user does not have to hurl the balls of smoke. When first learned the user is able to hurl up to 2 balls of smoke at where they wish. When the user becomes "C" Class they are able to hurl 4 balls of smoke at where they wish. When the user becomes "B" Class they are able to hurl 8 balls of smoke at where they wish. When the user becomes "A" Class they are able to hurl 16 balls of smoke at where they wish. And finally when the user becomes "S" Class they are able to hurl 32 balls of smoke at where they wish.
Limit: Must be a member of the Kasutā clan

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There was a method by one could take the idea of physical damage via smoke and enhance it in a simple way. Smoke grew darker the more solid or semi-solid particulate was within it. This particulate also gave it rigidity, definition, and thus more probable destructive capability. Tachibana discovered that this type of smoke was easy to get in a situation where something burned, but much more difficult to get in a situation where he extracted the smoke via the french exhale or some other method. The burned cast off carbon and other elements made the concentration of particulate much higher and produced a much dirtier smoke. There were of course some exceptions to this rule as many trees or their leaves instead burned a thick white but this too could be used.

By starting a simple campfire at night and adding material of which he knew would burn 'dirty' he created the environment necessary to cultivate the learning of the technique easier. The actual obtaining of the smoke was not part of this technique and thus it was unnecessary to be something he needed to learn. He did find however that controlling thick smoke was actually much more difficult than controlling normal smoke. The reasoning lie in the fact that this thick smoke was also 'heavier'. Chakra was utilized as a medium of control and like any sort of muscle one had to expend more effort to move something heavier. So the first training regimen was a simplistic improving of his 'strength' in this way, continually casting and lifting a sphere of blackened smoke.

He started with smaller spheres before moving onto bigger ones. The first exercise was simple lifting the sphere overhead, but he quickly moved onto lifting it higher and higher, and also maneuvering it about with more fine control. Then he added in multiple spheres at a time, starting too this same way, first basic lifting and then fine control. He did this until he reached the end of his control, the ability to control sixteen of the orbs at once. This too seemed to have a limiter placed upon it to make sure one didn't damage their mind attempting to hole onto many at once.

The final portion of the technique was simple to learn, requiring only the slightest of effort. He would simply allow the spheres to hover and then force them forward at a target. He could stagger his shots at any interval he wanted, he could shotgun them, or he could even force them together. Each sphere was connected to him through a small thread of consciousness, which if tugged would toss the sphere in a direction of his so choosing. The further he got from the sphere the more latency was introduced in the reaction of the sphere, but it seemed to have no logical finite limit otherwise.

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Kemuri Bunshin (Smoke Clone)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: This technique creates a clone made out of smoke. When it is hit, it turns into smoke similar to the Kemuri Buresu (Smoke Breathe) the user creates. The smoke clone is mostly used as a diversion tactic like other clone techniques.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: User creates a clone out of smoke. A technique which creates clones with the properties of Smoke. Although the clones are unable to inflict damage on an opponent, any physical attacks attempted on them envelopes the clone into Kemuri Buresu (Smoke Breathe). Depending on the user's class level is dependent on how well and how much the user is capable of performing at one given time. If the user is "D" Class they are capable of performing four Clones at once. If the user is "C" Class they are capable of performing eight clones at once. If the user is "B" Class they are capable of performing sixteen clones at once. If the user is "A" Class they are capable of performing thirty two clones at once. If the user is "S" Class they are capable of performing sixty four clones at once.
Limit: Must be a member of the Kasutā clan. Must know Kemuri Buresu (Smoke Breathe).

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Tachibana had learned about clones very early within his career as a ninja. Clones were always difficult techniques to perfect due to the mental link that one formed with the clones upon creation. Each clone was like an extension of self as easy to control as moving one's hand. However, these put stress on the mental faculties of the individual and thus most often one could not control but a handful of clones. Smoke clones due to their insubstantial properties had a much higher limit. The mental link between the individual and clones was stronger and could spread among many more clones because not as much chakra was wasted holding the clones form together.

The easy by which one had forming a clone was directly related to the person's own knowledge of their self-appearance. What one imagined after the incantation of handseals is what formed. If the mind recognized that the form was not of the self or far too off the jutsu usually failed. Tachibana spent a bit of time in front of the mirror before he attempted the jutsu for the first time, making sure to take in his knowledge of his outward appearance. Only once his features were committed to absolute memory did he then attempt the jutsu. Having the jutsu fail before it was even truly begun was never a fun experience.

Forming as singular clone and linking with it was easy, but as he connected his mind to more and more clones it became harder. For now there was finite limit to this for him but as he grew so too would the limit grow. At sixteen clones he had already felt as though his mind had split, his ability to process information severely hampered by the upkeep of the clones. Like any sort of muscle he had to exercise his ability to separate his own mental faculties from those dedicated to handling the goings of the bunshin to allow his strength at such to increase. Making the bunshin perform extended complicated maneuvers whilst on the edge of his control range was sufficient in stretching his mind to the limit. By doing this over a period of time he could expand the number of clones he could control.

One by one his limit expanded beyond the sixteen. Each time it expanded by one he would dismiss them all and establish a new link, forming the cycle of training necessary to reach his true limit. Each time he repeated this process it became ever harder to do so again. As his limit expanded further and further he had to take more radical approaches to increasing it, going from having the clones complete a simple maneuvers to having them do advanced ones. Eventually, at thirty-two clones he found it impossible to go ever forward. Instead, he simply continued to train his ability to multitask with them. Moving thirty-two bodies whilst his own, while countering whatever the opponent had to offer, all the while thinking of one's own next move wasn't easy.

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Tajū Kemuri Bunshin (Multiple Smoke Clone)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: After creating a single Smoke Clone, should it be sufficiently struck, the user can cause the smoke to spread and create more Smoke Clones.
Special: "Follow-up of Kemuri Bunshin (Smoke Clone)"
Drawback: ---
Description: A very similar technique to Kemuri Buresu (Smoke Breathe), however when a Kemuri Bunshin (Smoke Clone) is struck down it multiplies into multiple clones. Depending on the user's class level is dependent on how well and how much the user is capable of performing at one given time. If the user is "D" Class one clone creates 2 clones when hit. If the user is "C" Class one clone creates 4 clones when hit. If the user is "B" Class one clone creates 8 clones when hit. If the user is "A" Class one clone creates 16 clones when hit. If the user is "S" Class one clone creates 32 clones when hit.
Limit: Must be a member of the Kasutā clan. Kemuri Bunshin (Smoke Clone)

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Smoke bunshin were naturally smoke molded into human shape by particular use of chakra. So why not use that smoke again? It was a simple evolution to a simple technique using a simple concept. Once the clone was 'fizzled out' via sufficient disruption in the layer of chakra that binded it in human form, it was not as if the smoke went somewhere. It would hover about, rise into the air, and naturally dissipate. The idea was to capture that smoke before it got to that second step.

By conjuring up bunshin he began the task of working out the technique. After successfully ordering them to smash themselves against a boulder, he attempted to wrangle in the smoke with his chakra. Never a master of the art of utilizing chakra in such ways it wasn't the easiest of tasks. The first step in the process was to capture the dissipated smoke within an invisible veil of chakra. Since the smoke clone itself already held just a sliver of chakra from before it wasn't too difficult to achieve this part. Right after the clone was smashed he'd form the veil and hold the chakra in a lose form.

The second step was to replicate the smoke bunshin jutsu without initiating any handseals at all. This took some wit, one had to essentially 'write' within their chakra a set of instructions for the jutsu to follow. The instructions themselves while hard to implement were simple in design. Naturally, the original smoke clones were not perfect and held within them a greater amount of smoke than what was required to actually create a full clone. By taking some liberties, using latent smoke, and splitting the clone down the middle one could turn the death of one clone into the creation of two. Each time this mitosis occurred it was more and more difficult to achieve. There was less margin of error and less smoke to work with. The idea of 'creating something of nothing' was even thrown around in Tachibana's head.

Learning the technique became simple though tedious after the first two steps were accomplished. Like a surgeon Tachibana had to become slowly more deft with his 'hands', being able to perfectly mold a clone body out of smoke with each exponential division. Doing this again and again with much less to work with pushed back the idea of perfection every time. Smoke was a normally viscous and fleeting medium, it was not as if he was chiseling it out of stone - so to form clones that were so perfect they were normally imperceptible from the original took great care. Only that great care had to be condensed within a few microseconds. It took a great period of time, but when he was done he was able to split just clones to such great degree that they would easily expand to insane proportions.