The Old Tower [Sekitan's Home] {Redux} WIP

[An'ei Sekitan]

Surrounding Area: Sekitan Mountain is a broad series of individual mountains that connect, consisting of numerous valleys, caves, waterways, a craggy passes that are near impossible to navigate by any other than seasoned professionals; or those that live in the country. Every mountain range crests either just below the clouds or higher, most of the peaks frozen all year around, and tend to be a type of bragging right for those that try to climb to the frigid summits at the risk of life and limb. Deep snow and cutting blizzards dot most of the mountains at any time during the year, removing tracks almost as soon as they form, but not in some of the valleys it is said. Hot springs and heat from the dormant volcanos create a temperate climate in a few of the valleys, making them well worth the trip for those that cannot make it to Yu no Kuni.

Path to the Old Tower: Upon exiting the thick fog that does not seem to stop the sunlight from reaching the floor of the valley, a temple would appear before the travelers, off to the left upon a rise of earth and stone. Indigenous mountain plant life can be seen to either side of the path, also along the rocks and mountainsides in the distance from this very path. There is no way up to the temple from the path however, instead a sharp right brings travelers to a covered bridge and their first glimpse at the enormous home of Sekitan. Crossing the bridge brings one into the Training Square and Meeting Area of those not allowed within the walls.

The Square: To the left of the Square is an outpost tower, close and upon a rocky outcrop, the path hidden away by trees and brush growing outside of the Square, which can spot anyone coming up the path long before they reach the Old Tower. A structure can be seen to the upper right through the trees as well, serving as the outer guard barracks in older times, where AnBu and Guard alike would sleep and eat. It only contains guards now, as Sekitan is no longer the Kage. Wide stone steps lead up to the Old Tower’s outer wall and gate, ending at a rectangular platform just before it, wide enough to hold at least twenty people comfortably. Two guard towers stand to either side of the gate, allowing for arrows, spears, bombs or any other number of projectiles and jutsu to be thrown down on those below, should they be unwelcome. The gate itself is made of thick heavy wooden doors within a house-like frame, requiring the strength of three men or a single Taimaster to open, if one does not know the mechanism. A slide and spin octagon block puzzle of lines to form the sigil of Yukigakure in a square will open the door automatically.

Outer Wall: Another series of steps takes one to the outer wall of the structure, although these are much narrower, allowing only three to climb them shoulder to shoulder, stopping before another gate that mirrors the first; save the symbol needed here is that of Kusa. Another guard tower on the wall to the right can be seen, further away, with a second further still. These are not to stop intruders at the second gate, but those that attempt to climb without using the doorways. The wall itself is massive and made of thick stone, climbing like steps to the left to match the rise of the mountain rock itself. Lining the wall are structures for the inner guards and their families to make their homes. Another Outpost Tower resides at the left corner of the wall, able to see for miles around the front and left side of the Old Tower. Similar Outpost towers are on ever corner of the outer wall, with guard towers on dotting between them. A powerful waterfall can be seen rushing down from the mountains behind the tower into the valley below as well, the very waterfall that falls on the path out of the mountain.

Sekitan’s Home: Sekitan’s home itself is not overly large, as one passes through the old tower itself, through the many chambers and rooms seen down the halls along the passage, they exit the archway that has no door. This archway leads from the first floor into a grove of Blue Moon Wisteria and cherry blossom trees, a single stone path leading through to open to a stone plaza which contains a single one story home built in the traditional Edo style; walls of wood and doors of paper and wood. There are five rooms within that are living quarters, with a single large room that acts as a conference room for those closest to Sekitan, those few that have his trust and confidence. A hidden path within the grove exists, opened only by a drop of Sekitan’s blood, or that of his blood family, which leads down beneath his home to his own personal space. After traveling down an extensive flight of winding stairs, one walks down a short path to a door requiring another drop of blood, this opens to a hallway that leads to a door, which can be opened normally to allow entrance into Sekitan’s private quarters.

[An'ei Sekitan]

Bone Wings
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Target creates wings on themselves to fly.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is personal. Duration of this technique is 5 minutes per Class Level. The subject can fly. Its maneuverability is Average. User uses a variation of Dance of the Larch and creates giant Wings that protrudes from the user's upper Back (close to the shoulders). Using Bone Wings to fly requires only as much concentration as walking, so the subject can attack or perform Jutsus normally. Should the duration of the Jutsu expire, the bones dissolve, and the target will fall. See Falling damage if something bad happens.
Limit: Must be a Kaguya. Must know Dance of the Larch.

[0/10]

Sekitan stood in the Castle Courtyard, a place he trained so many times before, so many years ago. Kara was nearby and watching, curious about the manifestations herself, as they would aid in her research of the bloodline’s evolution. I have command of the dead and lore told of a type of undead dragon that could fly. A Dracolich. Perhaps I could mimic those properties as well. Giving Kara a sidelong glance, he nodded in her direction that he was prepared to begin, then he began to concentrate.

[Begin Training]

First, he would need to form the image in his mind. From the book that he read, along with witness accounts, a Dracolich had wings of bone and yet was able to fly through energy. Sekitan formed the image of the wings in his mind, smaller though, to fit his own form rather than that of a Dracolich. One long branch of a bone to jut from each shoulder blade, extending to about the length of his body, ending in a curved spike tip like that of a wyvern or dragon wing. Next three more bones would need to be formed, at joints in the main bone, equidistance apart and shaped like smaller versions of the main wing bone. These would stretch out like fingers, creating the wing shape, curved and poised. Now that the image was locked in his mind, it was time to mold the bone in the shape of the wing, which would be significantly harder.

Focusing on the malleable marrow that makes up the Kaguya skeleton, Sekitan begins to make the first spike of bone that would form the main pieces of the left wing, mirroring the action on the right. Slowly he grows the bone, as the first time one does anything, slow and steady is the best lead to perfection. The bone pierces his flesh at the shoulder blade, no blood to be seen as the bone grows, thickening and lengthening with each passing moment until it reaches the apex of growth. Next, from the knuckles of the bone, four in total, more bones would grow in a curved pattern, until reaching their completion. These were completed but still no flight, it was missing a final component, which was necrotic energy. Perhaps Kaguya had control of that as well.

Sekitan looked inside the marrow toward the energy that generated the change, searching to see if he had the power of death at his fingertips, literally and metaphorically. The chakra that was growing his bones and mending his flesh was different, vile it seemed, yet familiar somehow though he had never seen it before. This must be the necrotic chakra used for the Kaguya. Drawing on this chakra, he began to coat the bones like the membrane that formed between the wing ‘fingers’, which would make flight possible for a drake or dragon. Once he was satisfied that it was perfect, despite the lack of visibility to confirm it, he gave his wings a tentative flap. Lift! Another flap and then another, until he was hovering some ten feet above the courtyard, and then he allowed himself down gently. This will serve well in the future.

[End Training]

[Cadoc]

+10 1 post learned

[An'ei Sekitan]

Frostfell
Rank: "S"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User drops the temperature of an area to use cold jutsus.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is 30 meters + 15 meters per Class Level. Area of effect is 30 meters cube per Class Level. Duration of this technique is 5 hours per Class Level. The area the user designates becomes a frigid and icy environment, immediately dropping the temperature by 3 temperature bands. For example, if the temperature is moderate, it drops to extreme cold. If the new temperature is below the cold band, all water is turned to ice and all earth and stone becomes everfrost to a depth of 15 meters per Class Level. Air within the area freezes, resulting in a heavy snowstorm lasting for the duration of the Jutsu. Snow accumulates only if the ground temperature is below the moderate band. Living creatures caught within the area when the Jutsu is performed instantly turn to ice. If a creature successfully saves (Fortitude), frostfell deals 30 Armour Points of cold damage per Class Level. Creatures entering the area after the Jutsu has been performed do not take this damage; however, all creatures in the area are subject to the normal effects of cold, snow, and ice for the duration of the Jutsu. Objects in the area, including those held by creatures, are instantly covered in a thin layer of frost, making them slippery. Multiple frostfells may be performed in the same area to increase the effects (dropping the temperature by an additional 3 bands). The temperature band cannot be dropped below unearthly cold, no matter how many times frostfell has been performed.
Limit: Must know Ice Release.

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Sekitan handed the note from the cylinder over to Kaijin, the two of them standing upon the stone of the Inner Courtyard, and Kaijin turned it to ash in his palm. The Chief of Security looked at Sekitan with his blue eyes, a questioning look within those sapphire orbs, and a single arched brow. “I assume that is not the only reason you needed me here, in this particular Square.” The Sandaime Yukikage cut his servant a look and then smirked, turning to face him fully now, where he had had his back to the man before. “You are correct, Kaijin,” Sekitan began, allowing chakra to dance upon his fingertips, “I need your assistance in getting this body to remember that which it has forgotten. The rest of my ninjutsu seems to have been locked away during the evolution.” It was Kaijin who smirked now, putting his hands in his pockets and watching his master, chuckling lightly. “Very well. Let’s begin with an element you were very accustomed to. Hyōton.”

[Begin Training]

“Normally,” Kaijin began, “Starting with the basics is best, but instead, I want you to do something extremely advanced. Change the weather. You are you, after all.” Sekitan chuckled, his old friend knew him well enough, and at least that had not changed since before the evolution. While perhaps not performing a basic ability, the basics of a technique were a necessity. First thing was the Chakra purification process and the building of the advanced chakra form used to create cold techniques. Sekitan began to build chakra slowly, allowing it to pump from his chakra center and through his system, slowly filling his chakra network and being purified as it moved. It seems the length of time I was in the chamber has affected the speed of this process. A memory of his old life began to form while he waited, unbidden, but not dismissed. He had time to reminisce during this process.

A young man in a black fur-lined jacket sat in a cave with Sekitan, a fire before them both, the light of the flames causing their silver hair to become amber in color tinged with red and pink. Saiden Coal, Sekitan’s older brother, if only by minutes. “Your chakra control is almost pinpoint,” Coal said, his face a complete mirror of Sekitan’s, “How do you control the cold so well though? You aren’t from this land.” Sekitan looked to his brother and smiled, genuine warmth. “Easily enough, although I think I just got lucky to be born with it, just like you have Katon and I do not. But I’ll try to teach you, first you need to control your chakra in a different way than you do with Katon.” Sekitan began to build the chakra, freezing it by lowering the temperature of his own chakra network.

This was completed by using the base forms of the elements that created Hyoton chakra, that being Wind and Water. With a deft mental hand, Sekitan poured the Suiton chakra into his own raw chakra, allowing it to begin to freeze, in a sense. In order to keep it from solidifying and becoming useless however, he used the Fuuton chakra almost like a whisk is used to beat eggs or mix batter. Infusing the wind into his chakra, he would cause it to spin, like a drill from the center of the chakra flow, keeping it in a liquid state without allowing it to freeze over. Now it was more like a frozen liquid, almost like a gel, slippery and pliable. Sekitan attempted to explain it to Coal, but his brother’s chakra was a raging inferno, where his was more like the growth of a tree or the freezing of a river. He just could not learn it.

Sekitan smiled at the memory, the chakra he was building finally purified, and he spared a moment to fondly remember his brother despite their family inadequacies. Now that the chakra was purified, it was time to see if it would hold. Sekitan allowed the raw chakra to dance across his fingers, testing it to be sure that he had gotten out all of the toxins that build up from a comatose state. Satisfied, he released the chakra and got ready for the next step, the combining of two chakra elements to create a single advanced element.

[An'ei Sekitan]

Sekitan turned his mind inward to the new task at hand, the second part of this multi-part technique, the mixing of his chakras. Like in his memory, he would have to mix Fuuton and Suiton chakras in order to create Hyoton, but at a far larger scale than he had before. With his chakra purified of toxins, he began to focus the creation of the first chakra type, that being Suiton, one of the basic chakras. First, he would build up the chakra, focusing on the points within his body, then releasing the chakra from the storage housing within, allowing the purified chakra to flood his system swiftly. With barely any thought, he pumped more and more into those chakra networks until he was brimming with it, as if he were a cup set to overflow. This much was simple for him once, but it took a bit of concentration, even though it was not much. This body has forgotten so much.

Next, he began the transformation process of pure chakra into Suiton chakra, the type that would allow him to use Water Type techniques, as well as the type that allows him to use Wood Type Ninjutsu. Opening the gate containing the chakras of Suiton converter within him, he began to direct the purified chakra through it, altering the chakra as it passed through this converter of a sort. Concentration and a firm mental hand were necessary in order to keep the flow, as a flow that was far too quick would cause ruin to the chakra, but if it was far too slow, he could be taken down by any that attacked. Finally, the chakra began to form, mentally becoming a deeper color blue than the blueish white chakra when used raw.

The Suiton Chakra Converter itself had to be ‘manned’ as well, otherwise it could stop working or produce the chakra too deeply as Suiton, which would have terrible side effects for himself. In order to make this chakra functional, there had to be enough pure chakra within as well, which he continually built and pumped into the stream of Suiton chakra, as if creating a funnel for it and an outer coating. Expertly, he created the outer layer of pure chakra, keeping the Suiton chakra from contaminating his chakra network. Instead he guided it to the area of his chakra pool, where this chakra could be contained until further need. In addition to the guidance he gave the chakra, he also created an express pathway to where he would mix the chakra, removing the blockage that the evolution had caused. Now he could focus on the next piece.

[An'ei Sekitan]

Fuuton Chakra was something he was less practiced with, the converter for it mostly unused, covered in ‘dust’ so the speak and it a bit of disrepair. Before he could pump the pure chakra through, he would have to rejuvenate his ability to create Fuuton, and that meant mentally repairing the damaged center. Sekitan focused some of his pure chakra there, coating the center in it, then applying the healing properties of the Kaguya in a more inward fashion. As anticipated, the center began to repair itself and in short time it was functional, working much like the others that could be used. With that completed, he began to send purified chakra through this converter as well, much more slowly than he had for Suiton, as he was not in as perfect control as his younger self had been.

As the Fuuton chakra began to emerge, he directed it down the path that would lead toward his chakra pool, through the network that was in disrepair, with a front runner of purified fast healing chakra, modeled after the Kaguya healing process. Additionally, Sekitan was forced to wrestle with the Fuuton chakra mentally, as he was not in complete control of it just yet. Eventually, the chakra began to pour into the chakra pool, slowly, bit by bit, until the chamber for Fuuton began to fill and the path was established. However, this was far too slow, which meant that he would have to learn control quickly, and so he began to build up the rate of creation. Fuuton whipped around his chakra network, bashing against the walls of the tunnels, while Sekitan struggled to maintain it.

Pain was visible on his face to Kaijin, the mental struggle, along with the Fuuton going wild, causing great pain to both his body and mind. A burst of purified chakra to the outer layer of the Fuuton kept it from bashing his chakra network, then he released a lance of pure chakra through the core of the Fuuton, like a guide, and began to rotate it. Spinning it faster and faster, the Fuuton chakra began to mimic it, as if with a drill, or with creating a twister. Confident in his fix, Sekitan began to create the chakra much more rapidly, the Fuuton chamber of his Chakra Pool filling faster than it had before, at the same rate as the Suiton had filled. His control was back, at least for these two chakra types, but that was the easy part. It was time to create with this chakra.

[An'ei Sekitan]

The two chakras sat separately in their chambers, Fuuton and Suiton, the base forms of Hyoton. Much like he remembered, he would need to infuse the two in a way that they would work with one another, not scatter, so with that in mind he opened the chambers to direct the chakras to the area he would be mixing them in. Fuuton and Suiton began to move simultaneously through the chakra network to the joined networks in his arms, the area where the chakra would mix before the use of the focusing handseals, or in his case, just his mind. The two blocks on the chamber opened to admit both chakras, the point there was the focal point of the mixing or the allowance of one or another to pass. Fuuton and Suiton began to pool in that chakra point and the Fuuton attempted to scatter the Suiton as Sekitan had expected.

Mentally separating the two for the moment, he focused on a different task than mixing the two, as it would do him not good yet as he noticed. He instead began to cool the chakra network using the Fuuton, causing it to spin faster and faster, so that the wind would aid him. Additionally, he began to do the same for the Suiton, a whirlpool effect to pull in the lowering temperature of the Fuuton chakra. It only took a moment for the two to work in tandem, cooling his chakra network, swiftly, until it was quite cold. Cold enough to form ice. The Suiton chakra began to harden, the frost building upon it, as it began to move much more sluggishly than it had been previously, and that was the sign that it was ready for mixing.

Directing the lance of pure chakra through the Fuuton chakra, he drove it into the Suiton chakra, guiding it to spin and conform to the sluggish whirlpool. For a time, the two chakras fought him, but a bar of pure chakra through the center of the whirlpool created a focusing point, as if it were gravity. Soon enough, both chakra were spinning in tandem, interlaced with each other in a way that stopped the now gel-like chakra of Fuuton and Suiton from freezing over completely, while allowing it to remain as ice, much like a frozen river. Now, he began to push the gel through his chakra network toward his hands, as this was the finished form of Hyoton chakra, which would freeze instantly upon contact with the material world. There was nothing to keep it churning once it left his body.

[Cadoc]

+40tp

4posts

[An'ei Sekitan]

Used 60 TP of Skill Revamp/Update returned TP to master Frostfell.