Phailure [Training/Private]

[Molokai]

Tsubasa Sodachimasu no jutsu (Wing Grow Technique)
Rank: C-Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Lets the user grow wings of a bird out of their shoulders.
Special: handsigns, ram
Drawback: The user may feel some pain, due to the initial outburst of the extra shoulder bones that are used for the rest of the wings to grow on.
Description: The user forms the handseal, and then the extra shoulder bones that come from the Ritual of Talon and Feather burst through the back of the user and they start to grow into wings of any given bird, through chakra increasing the length of the bones, (user chooses) that are twice the length of the user’s arms. Chakra will numb the pain, but it will still hurt. The chakra will also accelerate the growth of the skin, but it will come out with feathers. The user may then use the wings to fly and perform other techniques that require this jutsu.
Limit: Ritual of Talon and Feather

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The Tsubasa Clan's trademark was the ability to sprout wings and fly at will, something Takeda had yet to master. It was a notoriously painful process the first time, as new flesh and bone and even feathers grew in the space of a few seconds, but it was something he couldn't avoid if he wanted to become a great ninja.

A slow string of handseals was formed until Takeda deemed the chakra buildup adequate for his purposes, at which point he ended with and held the Ram seal, just as the technique stated he must do. With little effort on his part, Takeda was able to maneuver the chakra well to the area just above and below the extra bone in his shoulder blades and attempted to coax that extra material into the shape of a skeletal wing. This action was met almost instantly with an immense spike of pain in both of his shoulders as an intense swelling began to build up beneath his skin. Such swelling stressed his skin a great deal, and with the sharp bone fragments materializing beneath it it would surely break, and break it did. With a sickening tearing noise accompanied by a spray of blood and a scream of agony the first set of new bones would emerge from both of his shoulders simultaneously, resembling a human hand in some ways but obviously and definitely not human by any stretch of the imagination.

With a pair of bloody bone columns seemingly sprouting out of just below his shoulders Takeda appeared to be suffering either an immensely bad open fracture or some kind of demon trying to crawl its way out of his body. Following the pair of hand like growths there came even more bone and even more screaming. After a snag at some kind of wrist-like joint there came a set of bones that was close to a human forearm, with two bones side-by-side connected to the wrist joint. Unfortunately these new additions were significantly longer and agonizingly slower than the initial outburst, growing with disturbingly wet sounding crunching noises and damn near dripping with dark red bodily fluids. The bones were beginning to take skin with them on their way out of his shoulders, tearing it off in slabs that seemed to stick to the new growths like some kind of fleshy fungus or desperate parasite.

Another snag, another pause where the progress stopped and the pain worsened, where a new joint had to be formulated. This joint would serve as the proverbial "elbow" for the developing wings, serving to flex and release the wing and feathers to alter his eventual flight pattern. But, oh did it hurt. The blood had dried on the previously formed bone, which now sagged limply toward the ground due to the lack of muscle, and threatened to snap and fall right out of the gap in his back it had just emerged from. A fresh spurt of blood and excruciation would signify the completion of the newest joint and the beginning of formulating the newest bone. This particular one got steadily wider as it progressed, ending in a thick club-like ball and socket joint that would attach it to his shoulders and later to his new muscles he would have to create. At the end of this bone growth the ball and socket joint would cause the whole skeletal wing formation to drop to the ground and send a new arc of mind-numbing pain shooting up and down his back.

((It looks kind of like this minus the feathers))

[Raikou!]

+10
10.30

[Molokai]

((I know nothing of bird anatomy so don't expect me to get any of these terms right when describing the parts of the wing))

10/30

Takeda had seen pictured of feathers attached directly to the bone during his studies of birds the Tsubasa elders forced on him, but if he tried to grow feathers now they would just weigh the already agonizing bones down further. He decided on trying to build muscles next and perhaps lift the bones off of the painful ground. Muscles were made of fibers and fibers wouldn't be all that hard to formulate, except how much it would hurt. Nerves already grew in with the bone, which explained how they hurt so much, so he could just go straight to the muscle creation. Like a snake the first muscle fiber slithered out of his back and wrapped itself around the bone, threaded through the elbow joint and continued until it found the "wrist" joint where it attached itself securely to the bone and tried to tense up and raise the wing off of the ground. One fiber wasn't enough, however, so as he forced more and more out to the elbow joint to try to bend it upward he discovered he needed to bunch it up quite a bit on the bone just above the joint.

With that task finished and the unusually light bone was no longer resting on the ground Takeda could move on to adding more muscle with more variety and achieve a full range of motion. It would have been quite a strange sight to anyone unlucky enough to be watching this spectacle, muscle fibers slithering and squirming over bloody exposed bones of giant bird wings, and the boy whom all these things belonged to kept crying out yet refusing to stop. Muscles bunched up around the shoulder joint as well as a little bit of clever nerve placement around the bicep-resembling muscle would grant Takeda the ability to rotate the massive new limbs in place. So, with a little practice and a lot of teeth-gritting, Takeda eventually figured out how to rotate and extend the ghastly things in an array of complex movements. However this ordeal was not through with yet, and it was a long way from being so.

Referring to the pictures he often studied and his photographic memory Takeda eventually discovered that there was a strand of muscle fabric from shoulder to wrist that kept the wing slightly bent and allowed for air capture once skin covered it. This one was going to be awkward to add, but he had a plan on just how he planned to produce such a precarious strand. Armed with the knowledge of how the muscle fibers from earlier were able to continue extending until they reached their destination Takeda moved to complete his plan. By flexing the wing enough to make it collide with his shoulder, needless to say hurting him immensely, he could thread the muscle onto that. From there he planned to steadily maneuver the wing away from his shoulder to the desired length at which point the strands would extend all the way to where he felt they needed to be.

Muscles completed and wings movable it was definitely time to grow some skin and momentarily stop the pain. Relief seemed to flow down his newly acquired limbs as the skin began to materialize from his shoulder and down his wing. Across the strand of muscle that spanned from shoulder to wrist a cobweb effect would be created in the skin. Large gaps separated by thin flaps of skin would steadily close together and thicken until a usable veil, rather than a worthless flap, would completely fill the entire inside joint of the forming wing. Across the bottom of the wing, covering his triceps and building up slightly more across the elbow to allow for joint movement, finally creeping up the bottom of the base of the wing both skin and relief would migrate. An extra flap of skin on the inside of the wrist joint to add just that much more air pockets when flying would be the last addition to his newly acquired featherless wings.

((Finished product looks like this with a thin veil of pale skin over it.))

[Molokai]

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The pain had stopped momentarily while the skin protected the formerly exposed muscle and bone, but it was about to start again as this time Takeda had to sprout feathers. Having bred baby birds with his mother, or rather watching her breed the birds as she never paid any heed to him, he knew that feathers emerges as spines with a dry membrane over them and once that membrane fell off the feathers spread out and became useful. So, spines first, feathers second, fun times ahead. His DNA had become infused with that of a bird so creating feathers was no harder than creating muscle, and as the first spikes drove their way through Takedas newly formed flesh all he did was grit his teeth and turn his head. Starting first at the bottom of his wings the large spines erupted from his soft tissue and almost collided with the ground due to their sheer size.

This was not, of course, without its own share of pain but Takeda had gotten used to the agony and discovered that keeping the chakra flooding in dulled it slightly to a mere throbbing rather than a painful ordeal. That didn't rule out the fact that there were still feathers to emerge, down feathers, flight feathers, and feathers that Takeda had no clue to the names of would slowly morph out of his newly formed skin covered in that stiff membrane. Once all feathers finally emerged he had to only sit and wait for the protective membrane to crack and tumble to the ground. To help move that process along he flapped them halfheartedly for a few minutes, gaining in vigor and confidence every time he noticed one of the layers fall to the ground. It was the minor feathers first, as the larger flight feathers had the most durable protective casings, but once all of his feathers had the protective shell thing removed he was ready to try flying.

With a single vicious swoop of the gigantic feathery masses attached to his back Takeda easily pushed enough air downward to propel his form upwards. Taken above the trees almost instantly with one flap surprised Takeda, to the point where he panicked and dropped straight back down to collide hard with the ground below. It was also apparent that trying to go straight up would take him nowhere, as birds had to move forward to stay in the air. Spreading his massive new wings wide as they could go, which was twice as wide as he could spread his arms, he took a running start for about ten feet until he felt he was up to speed enough. With one flap he raised off of the ground and glided for a second or two before attempting to flap a second time in mid-air, which worked surprisingly well. Maybe this wasn't as hard as he originally thought, but then again nothing is as hard training as it is using it in combat.

[Tieren]

+16 total
(26/30)

*cries* NO!!! You ish gonna learn this before me!!!! *cries more and tackles*

[Molokai]

*tackled. . . MUST CONTINUE ON!1!*

26/30

With wings now fully formed an awkward gliding effect was created when Takeda made an attempt to fly. He had mastered the none-to-complicated art of flapping periodically to prevent going headfirst into the ground but he was still only a few feet high enough to prevent his wings from touching the ground, it was time to pull up. By angling the front of his wings toward the direction he wanted to go then in theory he should go there, so when he tilted his wings to face the sky he just naturally starting rising right up, but his wing placement was unequal and he was catapulted into a vicious aileron roll. Hurtling at flight speed while spinning perpendicular to the ground without any control was decidedly a bad position to be in, the only option of course was to right himself and continue on his way of trying to go up. This feat was eventually accomplished after several crashes and a lot of fine tuning, but he was starting to gain more motor skills in the new muscles on his back.

He had flying pretty much down to an art but now he would have to figure out a way to retract his wings so he didn't walk around looking like Junior Birdman all day. All he would have to do is focus his chakra in the same way he did to grow the wings and then reverse the polarity, or whatever the term for it is. Upon trying this strategy he felt what could only be described as the strangest sensation one could ever have felt. The feathers closed up and retracted back into his skin, causing an indescribably uncomfortable but oddly painless shiver to run through his entire body. At this point the entire wing, bones and all, started shrinking and morphing into his shoulders from whence they came. Now, as then, sickening crunching noises could be heard coming from the boys back and new flesh and bone seemingly vanished right before the eyes of anybody unfortunate enough to be watching. With the wings finally gone he straightened up and stretched his back, he was decidedly uncomfortable but overall unharmed.

[tetsu]

Learned.

[Molokai]

Kugutsu Hishou (Puppet Flight)
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Allows the puppet to fly using the installed Wings of Flight, or from wings that have been built by hand (E-rank puppets only)
Special: Puppeteers Only.
Drawback: Puppet cannot fly without wings, and cannot fly higher than what the chakura threads will allow.
Description: With proper placement of chakra threads and manipulation, the puppeteer is able to allow their puppet to fly. Of course, flight cannot occur without wings.
Limit: Must be a puppeteer. Must know Kugutsu no Jutsu, and the puppet must have Wings of Flight, unless it is E-rank. At E-rank, it still needs wings.

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Flight was a valuable asset to people such as Takeda, and now that he could sprout wings and fly whenever he wanted to it became apparent that his puppet would be a hindrance in flight. The only way that the puppet wouldn't get in the way when flying is if the puppet could fly as well, and while it had the wings Takeda had no idea how to make them work.

To begin with he first unraveled his puppet that had been resting against a rock during the whole wing growth ordeal. At which point he attached his chakra strings to selective points all over its form that would grant him the ability to maneuver it in many dexterous and deadly ways. He caused it to walk to the center of the foggy expanse that was the majority of the water country where he commanded the wings to spread to their maximum width. Guiding them slowly upwards until they pointed at their destination, the sky, at which point Takeda forced them downwards with great force. The wind and energy generated from this powerful thrust sent the puppet airborne immediately, so full of pride with himself was Takeda that he chanced taking another flap to see how high he could command it to go. Upon raising the wings aloft again they served no purpose except to propel the puppet back down onto the earth.

It was time for a new strategy, since obviously moving the wings up and down without any angle alteration didn't help his cause. This time, instead of going straight up, he leaned the puppet at a forty five degree angle forward and raised the wings parallel with its body. Once angled forward he rotated the wings to be perpendicular to the puppets tilted form and forced them down along it's body once again. Shigero shot forward, propelled by immense wind forces generated by the powerful wings, and it flew quite a ways before starting to fade towards the earth again. Due to the previous failure of not altering the angle of attack before moving the wings forward again, he made sure to twist the wings to be parallel with the body before migrating toward its head. This action caused the wing to successfully arrive at an upward position without forcing air to go in the opposite direction of what he wanted. One more flap and the puppet retained its altitude just as Takeda desired.

Although Shigero was maintaining altitude immaculately it wasn't quite high enough to be incredibly effective, so it was time to get it higher. Through altering the angle of attack of the wing front to be pointed towards the sky as well as raising the puppets head to face the same direction Takeda was able to cause Shigero to begin climbing. Speed was lost almost instantly as soon as the puppet was successfully angled upwards, due to that accursed thing commonly referred to as "gravity", so only by flapping vigorously could he keep it going fast enough to achieve an increase in distance between the ground and the puppet. It would take a clever system and rhythm of altering angles and moving joints simultaneously to allow it to flap without forcing it down or changing the angle of ascent, and clever it was. When Takeda finally deciphered the pattern to successful climbing it was as such, a circular motion where the wing rotated almost constantly in its socket and pushed air down at almost all times.

Now at altitude it was time for some more dexterous tests of flying skill. A quick alteration of the aileron-like flaps on the rear of the puppets wings caused it to perform what could only be described as a hairpin barrel roll. The incredibly minuscule radius of this turn was comparable to somebody performing a back flip at flight speed, and as a result of it the puppets head was facing directly at the ground. Predictably enough the odd angle of the puppet caused it to hurtle at the ground at breakneck speeds, aided by the fact that Takeda made the wings fold up behind the puppet and grant it a missile shape. At damn near the last millisecond, before the puppet collided with the ground and shattered into an uncountable amount of decimated splinters, Takeda commanded the puppet to spread its wings and pull up yet again. The word close call was redefined at that moment, as the blades of grass less than an inch tall got caught on the puppets form and were carried high into the sky and blinding speeds.

[adero]

add it.

[Molokai]

[exit]