Renewed Vigor (Open Training)

[Iname]

The setting is an area off to the edges of the Meikei Base of Water. Few or no people are walking by this area at any one time, making it an ideal place to train. It is a medium sized area, perhaps 30' by 30'. It is surrounded by buildings with alleys in between, and it is a rather gloomy setting with one line ninja training in the center.

(( All are welcome to come and train. I'll help if needed. ))

[Iname]

0/30 TP

Atsui Usumaku (Transitional Membrane)
Rank: D, C, B, A
Skill: Ninjutsu, Supplementary
Effect: The user is capable of controling the thickness of thier "trasitional membrane". This technique is manditory for all under the Ekitai bloodlimit. This is because it grants them their survival in battles and harsh weather conditions.
Special: ---
Drawback: Switching from ranks that are not next to each other takes 1 post (You cannot instantly switch from D rank thickness to B rank.)
Description: Every Ekitai member begins with the D ranked version of this technique and work their way up. During training, they are required to learn how their transitional membrane is capable of absorbing the air around them in order to "harden". Chakra takes a large role in hardening their transitional membrane because it mixes with the air to help with the process. In order to switch from a higher rank of thickness to a lower, the user must pump the water from inside of their bodies and surface it to their skin. Also, the user leaves their palms permeable (D ranked), thus allowing the usage of the water inside of them no matter what rank their in.

D ranked: Very thin and moist layer of skin. This is the default layer of skin the Ekitai are always in. If punched, a hand would go through them and probably get stuck (like sticking your finger in very thick jelly). This means the Ekitai feel no physical pain. Under this rank, the skin is most permeable, meaning they are able to absorb large amounts of water. Although they feel no physical pain, ninjutsu release based attacks can affect them. Also, this skin is not suggested for harsh weather conditions. Exceedingly hot or cold weather can evaporate them or freeze them easily.

C ranked: Exact manipulation of human skin. Can withstand any kind of weather conditions a human could. Since skin is more solidified, landing taijutsu based attacks are more affective. Physical attacks now cause pain.

B ranked: A harder, rock like layer of skin. An Ekitai under this rank becomes stronger when landing physical attacks. Little pain is received when attacked by physical attacks. When attacked with too much force (B rank or above) limbs might crack off.

A ranked: Skin hardens to resemble that of a metal like texture. No pain is received from both ninjutsus and taijutsus. Physical strength is increased. Speed is reduced. Unable to crack limbs. This state can only last for 3 posts before going back to D ranked thickness. Consumes a large amount of chakra.

Part 1: Finally Human

As he walked through the ally to the clearing ahead of him, Iname reached into his bag of scrolls and pulled one out at random. Upon opening it, he smiled. After years of his kind being shunned for their appearance, Iname would learn the secret that allowed some Ekitai people to appear human. The secret was the ability to change one's transitional membrane.

Reading over the scroll, Iname prepared himself to learn the second stage of the Ekitai peoples transitional membrane. Gathering chakra on the surface of his skin, Iname began to "reach out" with the chakra and grab the air around him. As he grabbed te air, he would infuse it with chakra and pull it inside his body.

The concept of the jutsu was actually quite simple. When exposed to air for a long period of time, jelly would harden. This jutsu would cause the jelly to harden until Iname could eventually look human. However, this rank of the jutsu only affects the skin of an Ekitai, allowing them to use the water within them for jutsu.

So, as he pulled the air to his skin, Iname could feel his skin changing, but only slightly. Concentrating more chaka to the surface of his skin, he would grab more and more air and pull it within himself. When he felt no more change, he realized that only some of the air had mixed with his skin. The rest of it merely formed pockets of air inside his body.

Iname also realized he was not infusing the air with chakra, thus causing the air pockets to form. Combining the chakra with the air, Iname pushed it to his skin. From there, he relocated the air next to his membrane to harden the jelly. Unfortunately, only parts of his skin changed. And even then, the changes were not noticeable by sight. Iname knew they had changed only because he could feel the texture of his skin change.

"How the hell does this jutsu work?" he thought. "What if..." Gathering chakra one more, Iname infused it with the air around him. From there, he pulled it within his body just under the surface of his skin. Chakra control was essential at this point, so Iname began to dissect the molecules of air and combine them with the molecules of his membrane. Already he could feel his skin changing, if only slightly.

Just then, it occurred to Iname that this could take a massive amount of chakra if he did not use it wisely. Perhaps he was already using more chakra than was actually needed to simply change the texture of one's skin. He was, after all, grabbing only tiny portions of the air to mix with his skin. But there were millions of cells that would make up his membrane alone, and so Iname would get to work on his chakra control.

Using only enough chakra to cover the surface of his body, Iname grabbed the air paritcles and pulled them to himself. From there, he would break down the molecules into seperate pieces of air. Basically, he would have millions of microscopic bubbles within him, just under the surface of his skin. Then, he would add about the same amount of chakra that he used before to merge the air molecules with his skin.

Iname smiled as he looked at his skin. The change was only slight, but now one would not be able to push through the membrane and have their fist or something lodged in Iname's jelly mass. Although now it could still be done, a little force would be needed to do so. As he looked upon himself, he saw that his skin was still transparent, but now it was slightly thicker and it was a little difficult to peer through the membrane to see Iname's jelly form.

Now two problems presented themselves. First, Iname would need to learn how to change the color of the skin to make himself look human. Second, he would need to learn how to change back in case the need arrived to switch to taijutsu tactics. He had a lot of training before him until he could appear human.

[Okami]

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10/30

[Iname]

(( Thanks Jimmu ^_^. ))

10/30 TP

Atsui Usumaku (Transitional Membrane)
Rank: D, C, B, A
Skill: Ninjutsu, Supplementary
Effect: The user is capable of controling the thickness of thier "trasitional membrane". This technique is manditory for all under the Ekitai bloodlimit. This is because it grants them their survival in battles and harsh weather conditions.
Special: ---
Drawback: Switching from ranks that are not next to each other takes 1 post (You cannot instantly switch from D rank thickness to B rank.)
Description: Every Ekitai member begins with the D ranked version of this technique and work their way up. During training, they are required to learn how their transitional membrane is capable of absorbing the air around them in order to "harden". Chakra takes a large role in hardening their transitional membrane because it mixes with the air to help with the process. In order to switch from a higher rank of thickness to a lower, the user must pump the water from inside of their bodies and surface it to their skin. Also, the user leaves their palms permeable (D ranked), thus allowing the usage of the water inside of them no matter what rank their in.

D ranked: Very thin and moist layer of skin. This is the default layer of skin the Ekitai are always in. If punched, a hand would go through them and probably get stuck (like sticking your finger in very thick jelly). This means the Ekitai feel no physical pain. Under this rank, the skin is most permeable, meaning they are able to absorb large amounts of water. Although they feel no physical pain, ninjutsu release based attacks can affect them. Also, this skin is not suggested for harsh weather conditions. Exceedingly hot or cold weather can evaporate them or freeze them easily.

C ranked: Exact manipulation of human skin. Can withstand any kind of weather conditions a human could. Since skin is more solidified, landing taijutsu based attacks are more affective. Physical attacks now cause pain.

B ranked: A harder, rock like layer of skin. An Ekitai under this rank becomes stronger when landing physical attacks. Little pain is received when attacked by physical attacks. When attacked with too much force (B rank or above) limbs might crack off.

A ranked: Skin hardens to resemble that of a metal like texture. No pain is received from both ninjutsus and taijutsus. Physical strength is increased. Speed is reduced. Unable to crack limbs. This state can only last for 3 posts before going back to D ranked thickness. Consumes a large amount of chakra.

Part 2: Finally Human

Looking upon his slightly hardened skin, Iname needed to find a way in which to change the color of his transparent membrane. As he sat there, thinking of ways to do this, he became frustrated. No ideas came to mind! His frustration caused him to unknowingly change the balance of eumelanin and pheomelanin within his hair to change. This in turn caused his hair to turn a dark red.

Coincidentally, his hair fell down in front of his eyes. He blew it away, but then stopped for a moment. The answer to his problems was the melanin level in his skin! This chemical causedmthe pigmentation in human skin. Using the same concept as he had with his hair, Iname focused the chemicals to his skin. It was quite easy for him now to make his skin a pale color.

Satisfied, Iname would now focus on making the skin like actual human skin. If he kept his skin as it was now, the slightest touch would break the layer of skin. Now, he had maybe a few layers of skin cells. Not nearly enough to resemble a human. And because he had given his skin color, it was only very slightly transparent now.

Gathering chakra on the surface of his skin, he again grabbed the surrounding air and infused the two elements. Then, seperating the molecules with more chakra, Iname combined those with individual cells in his membrane. Slowly, the skin began to thicken, but it was still not enough. Iname needed to look human. Not only that, but he would need to have actual human skin, which is to say that if a shuriken hit his arm, it would cut him instead of getting stuck in his jelly arm.

"More air..." he thought as he gathered chakra. This time, Iname doubled the amount of chakra that was the surface of his skin, grabing individual air molecules with each tiny speck of chakra. Infusing the two together and then adding it to his cells, Iname was eventually able to get rid of the transparency of his skin. And, just like the scroll had said, Iname had kept his palms in the regular Ekitai state in case he needed to use water or jelly-related jutsu.

Even though he thought it fine, Iname didn't exactly like having ghostly-white skin. So, he began to focus more chemicals to the skin to darken it just slightly. Just enough so that he wasn't a sickly-pale color. Once this was accomplshed, Iname began to... Poke himself. With just a little force, Iname poked through his membrane and reached the jelly substance inside. He sighed, and focused three times as much chakra to his skin.

Clutching air molecules all around his body, Iname began to mix the chakra, air, and his membrane together. Slowly, his transitional membrane began to grow more layers of skin. Still, Iname felt that it was not ready. Gathering the same amount of chakra, he grabbed as much air as he could and infused it into his membrane.

Now, reaching for a kunai, Iname was ready to feel pain for the first time. Being an Ekitai, taijutsu didn't affect him. And as a child, all his competitors were trained for hand-to-hand combat. He had heard stories of war and battle in which people had experienced unimaginable pain, and it seemed like a horrible sensation. But he was ready for the worst, and so he raised his arm that held the kunai.

He began to thrust his arm down, but became too frightened of this sensation he would experience for the first time. Taking a few breaths, he raised his arm once more. Then, he swung downwards and thrust the kunai into his stomach. Pain shot throught his abdominal region, and he fell to the ground. Immediately, he wrenched the kunai from his body. He made no noise except for a few grunts, and he lay there for ten minutes. Gasping, he gathered a large amount of chakra and repaired the area he had stabbed using the air around the wound.

"That w-was... H-horrible..." he began saying to himself. The sense of pain was not a good one. But he knew, with time that pain would become more tolerable as he was damaged more in the midst of battle. Still trying to regain his composure, Iname decided to move onto the last part of his training. Returning to the first stage of his transitional membrane.

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.20.30.

[Iname]

(( Thanks Shinta ))

20/30 TP

Atsui Usumaku (Transitional Membrane)
Rank: D, C, B, A
Skill: Ninjutsu, Supplementary
Effect: The user is capable of controling the thickness of thier "trasitional membrane". This technique is manditory for all under the Ekitai bloodlimit. This is because it grants them their survival in battles and harsh weather conditions.
Special: ---
Drawback: Switching from ranks that are not next to each other takes 1 post (You cannot instantly switch from D rank thickness to B rank.)
Description: Every Ekitai member begins with the D ranked version of this technique and work their way up. During training, they are required to learn how their transitional membrane is capable of absorbing the air around them in order to "harden". Chakra takes a large role in hardening their transitional membrane because it mixes with the air to help with the process. In order to switch from a higher rank of thickness to a lower, the user must pump the water from inside of their bodies and surface it to their skin. Also, the user leaves their palms permeable (D ranked), thus allowing the usage of the water inside of them no matter what rank their in.

D ranked: Very thin and moist layer of skin. This is the default layer of skin the Ekitai are always in. If punched, a hand would go through them and probably get stuck (like sticking your finger in very thick jelly). This means the Ekitai feel no physical pain. Under this rank, the skin is most permeable, meaning they are able to absorb large amounts of water. Although they feel no physical pain, ninjutsu release based attacks can affect them. Also, this skin is not suggested for harsh weather conditions. Exceedingly hot or cold weather can evaporate them or freeze them easily.

C ranked: Exact manipulation of human skin. Can withstand any kind of weather conditions a human could. Since skin is more solidified, landing taijutsu based attacks are more affective. Physical attacks now cause pain.

B ranked: A harder, rock like layer of skin. An Ekitai under this rank becomes stronger when landing physical attacks. Little pain is received when attacked by physical attacks. When attacked with too much force (B rank or above) limbs might crack off.

A ranked: Skin hardens to resemble that of a metal like texture. No pain is received from both ninjutsus and taijutsus. Physical strength is increased. Speed is reduced. Unable to crack limbs. This state can only last for 3 posts before going back to D ranked thickness. Consumes a large amount of chakra.

Part 3: Finally Human

"God. Damnit." With no idea of how to get back to his original state, Iname began to panic. He didn't want to have to feel pain again. And, as a shinobi, if he stayed in this state he would definitely feel it once more. Pacing back and forth, Iname began thinking of ideas to return to normal.

Then he remembered he had the scroll! Whipping it out, Iname began to calm down. But as he read further, he questioned what happened to the skin that was. Did he shed it? The scroll didn't say, and Iname was unsure of whether to do that, for it may upset his internal water pressure and he could fall apart on the spot. What a predicament.

Then, an idea formed. What if, while pumping water back to the surface of his skin, he dissected his cells in order to remove the air? Now excited instead of panicked, Iname set to work. Concentrating his chakra to his skin once more, Iname began to use active transport within his membrane to push out the air. As it exited the cells, he caught it with chakra and move it to the surface of his skin. However, it was no longer as permeable, and it was difficult to do so. He kept the air below his skin, thinking of a new solution.

Then it hit him. Using more chakra, he began to pump water from inside his body to the surface of his skin. It was difficult, but eventually Iname formed pores within his skin. Soon, his human skin would become wet as jelly from his body flowed throught he pores onto his skin. Then, using the pores and the water flow, Iname would move the molecules through the pores until it exited the body.

Moving water through microscopic pores all over his body was difficult and chakra-consuming. Soon, he was slightly fatigued and began to pump water more slowly. He was still causing his membrane to excrete the air so he could catch it with chakra and remove it from his body. The process took about ten minutes, and even after that, he still had many layers of skin to go.

Panting, Iname kept up his work. Air was slowly being excreted through each cell in his membrane, and then he would clutch onto it using chakra. Then he moved that chakra through the water flow in his pores until it reached the surface and left his body. All this time, he had forgotten to pump water.

Eventually stopping, Iname looked down to see that he was beginning to become transparent once more. His hair had changed back to its normal white color, and he was completely exhausted. But he would not stop until he was once again in a permeable state. Grabbing the scroll, he read over it once more.

Realizing he had forgotten to be pumping water the entire time, Iname stopped the active transport of air from his cells. Perhaps he could saturate each cell instead, causing them to become jelly once more. It had an equal chance as any other idea, and so he focused his efforts into pumping water to the hardened cells.

As the water was pumped through the cells, diffusion occurred between the water and air. The water moved into each cell as the air was diffues out of the cell. Each substance was moving from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration. Soon, the air would naturally exit his body, returning him to his pereable state. Falling to the ground, Iname began breathing heavily. He was thoroughly exhausted, and his chakra levels were nearly depleted. A good night's rest would surely replenish his supplies. And with that, Iname fainted and fell into a deep sleep.

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[Iname]

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