Misa and Yukiko's training

[Yukiko]

Yukiko continued along the path that lead to her favorite training space. She looked back every so often to see if Misa was following her. The clearing wasn't too far from the previous place they had been.

"OK. Time to do some training."

She pulled out a scroll that had the technique she wished to learn written on it. She had already read it, but opened it anyway in case she needed a to reference it.

Ninpou: Kami Enchou (Ninja Art: Hair Extension)
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu, Supplementary
Effect: Allows the user to rapidly grow out their hair.
Special: "Hand Seals"- Horse, Rabbit, Dragon, Dog, Monkey, (hold)Ram
Drawback: The user must hold the Ram handseal for the duration of the technique. The second they release the handseal, their hair stops growing.
Description: The user performs the required handseals, running chakra along their scalp and all the way through their hair. This allows the hair to push from the scalp and outwards, creating a massive growth of the user's hair. The hair itself will continue to grow for as long as the user maintains the Ram handseal. It takes one turn to grow about five feet of hair.
Limit: Universal Ninjutsu

Yukiko closes her eyes and performs the handseals necessary for the technique.

Horse, Rabbit, Dragon, Dog, Monkey, Ram (hold)

Yukiko can feel the chakra she is pumping toward her scalp. From her scalp, to the roots of her hair, to her entire head of hair. It tingles. She imagines her hair growing and growing as she continues to pump the chakra toward her scalp. Her hair shifts ever so slightly and she releases the Ram handseal.

"OK. I'm doing something right... Again."

Horse, Rabbit, Dragon, Dog, Monkey, Ram (hold)

Once again the chakra runs from her body toward her scalp and down her hair. She inhales slowly through her nose as the tingling sensation comes back. It feels as though someone is running their fingertips, ever so softly, through her hair. Then she exhales feeling her hair grow a little bit more.

"Here we go now."

She continues to inhale through her nose and exhale through her mouth. Her hair begins growing at a slow, but steady pace. She clenches her teeth and pumps a large wave of chakra upwards and her hair grows about six inches or so.

"I'm beginning to get the hang of this."

Excited, she begins pumping chakra quicker than before. Her hair begins growing at a faster rate as well. She can feel it begin to weigh down her head. With one last wave, Yukiko begins pumping even more chakra and in turn her hair begins growing faster. It starts touching the ground and she can feel it's bulk tugging at her head.

"Don't stop, don't stop."

The chakra begins flowing at a furious rate over her scalp. It changes from a tingling feeling to an almost electric charge. Her hair, growing freely now, has reached three feet longer than her normal hair length.

"Just two more feet... that's all I'm asking for."

Her hair quickly grows another foot. Yukiko continues her breathing and her steady chakra flow. The next foot seems to take forever to her but in reality it grows the fastest. She continues to pump until she becomes winded. She let's go over the handseal and turns to admire her work.

"Wow. That's a lot of hair."

((OOC: This is my first training post, please tell me how I did. I think it may need to be beefed up a bit more))

[adero]

+10, not a bad start so you may add this jutsu. basically just go into depth about the jutsu, whats happening, how are you feeling, what are you feeling etc.

[Yukiko]

Ninpou: Kami Souki (Ninja Art: Hair Recall)
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu, Supplementary
Effect: Allows the hair to fold in on itself several times so that it looks like the original layer of hair before the Hair Extension technique.
Special: "Hand Seals"- Monkey, Horse, Rabbit, Dog, Tiger, Ram, Bird
Drawback: Requires a (very) small but constant amount of chakra to keep the hair folded in the way that it is. This means that if the user runs out of chakra then the hair will let itself all loose.
Description: The user performs the required handseals, strengthening the hair follicles and giving them all almost a stickiness. Then, the user controls the hair using their chakra and pulls it in on itself, over and over, and tightens itself so that all the hair grown from the Hair Extension technique is seemingly invisible. The user must perform the Kai technique to cancel the hair folds.
Limit: Must know Ninpo: Kami Enchou

Yukiko looked back at the five feet of hair she had grown. She then unrolled the scroll a bit more and looked at the next jutsu. She cloesd her eyes again and controlled her breathing once more.

Monkey, Horse, Rabbit, Dog, Tiger, Ram, Bird

She focuses on her hair again, namely the follicles this time. She needed to be able to strengthen them in order to pull her hair into itself. She decided to do the opposite of what she had just done in order to accomplish this. Forcing the chakra from the tips of her very long hair toward her scalp. She used the same intensity she had used to grow it out. Her breathing continued at a slow and steady rate. She would continue to do this for a while.

Yukiko stopped what she was doing and looked back to see her progress. Her hair hadn't moved an inch. Confused, she glanced at the scroll again hoping to gain some insight.

"So it needs to be sticky..."

She performed the handseals again. She began thinking of sticky things.

"Honey, maple syrup, tree sap, melted candy, glue, chewing gum..."

Yukiko began attempting to strengthen her hair and make it sticky to itself. She could feel her hair begin to thicken. It was a strange feeling. Almost as if the body and volume of her hair was getting thicker. She continued this process until she felt that her hair was strong enough to pull itself up.

She decided to start by practicing lifting her hair with her chakra. It was a very simple feat to accomplish. She waved it around for a while, letting it come up off the ground.

Yukiko then starting pulling her hair up toward her head as if she were folding a blanket. She would start with a few inches to begin with. Her hair came up and folded itself to her hair, but it didn't seem to be sticking. She tried a few more times without much success.

"What am I doing wrong?"

She glanced at the scroll once more. Pulling her hair into itself seemed to be the key. She restarted her whole thought processof the technique.

Yukiko closed her eyes again and began concentrating on her hair once more. She imagined her hair growing back into it's normal state and focused on accomplishing this task. Her hair shifted slightly upwards. She seemed to finally be on the right track. She continued doing this and her hair slowly began to retract toward her head. If anyone was to look, it would seem as though her hair was shrinking.

This was a start, but it wasn't moving nearly as fast as she would have liked it to.

"I had a good start. Now I just have to make it go faster... Kai."

The hair she had pulled up was let loose. It wasn't much. Six inches or so, but Yukiko wanted to perfect this. She performed the handseals again and closed her eyes. Her hair spread outwards as her hair thickened and got sticky almost immediately. She pulled her hair upward again, and it seemed to be moving faster this time.

It started to slow down again and Yukiko became a bit discouraged, but she wouldn't let it bring her down. She focused once more and began using her chakra to pull her hair upwards again. It moved a bit choppily but it went much faster this time. Her hair felt as though it was thickening even more than it had been before. Her hair started to move much more smoothly and soon all the hair she had grown was now seemingly invisible to anyone else. She could still feel the weight of it though. Another foot and she was done. She made her hair come back down to look as though nothing had ever changed.

[adero]

add it, btw feel free to pm staff to grade training

[Yukiko]

Yukiko was pleased with the progress she was making. She smiled inwardly.

"Time to learn some offensive techniques."

Ninpou: Kami Baindo (Ninja Art: Hair Bind)
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu, Offensive
Effect: Sends the user's hair darting forward to wrap itself around the target.
Special: If the user is currently performing the Hair Extension technique, None. If the user is not performing the Hair Extension technique, the same Handseals as the Hair Extension technique, including the holding of the Ram handseal.
Drawback: Can be easily dodged.
Description: The user holds the Ram handseal if currently performing the Hair Extension technique or performs the Hair Extension technique. The user then directs their hair en masse towards the opponent, where the hair will attempt to wrap itself around the opponent and bind them. The user may add additional pressure and attempt to crush the opponent, but it is normally very difficult to perform such a feat.
Limit: Must know Ninpou: Kami Enchou

"Kai"

The hair she was holding back fell out and landed on the ground. She performed the handseals that she had used earlier for the Hair Extension. She now needed to learn to control all of her hair at once toward a specific target. She would start simply by trying it on a non-moving target. She faced a tree and begun the technique.

As she focused her chakra toward her hair it would begin to rise up off the ground. It just kind of floated there as if some sort of wind was blowing it upward. It was all over the place. She needed to straighten it up first. Slowly, her hair would straighten itself out. It still moved in a wavy fashion, but it was all straightened out behind her parallel to the ground.

Her hair continued to grow outwards, but she made it grow slowly until she could get the hang of controlling where it moved. She continued to focus the hair until it stopped moving. It now stood straight outward behind her. If anyone were to look it would be quite a sight.

She now had to move it in front of her. Instead of focusing her chakra straight back, she would try to curve it at the end to start it's growth forward. It began to grow in the direction she wished, but her hair was still stiff as a board. She wanted the rest of her hair to move forward as well. Slowly, her hair began curving at a point closer to her head.

Yukiko let her hair go limp a bit so it wasn't completely straight, but it was still in the air. It felt strange to have her hair floating in the air like it was, but she supposed it was something she would have to get used to.

Soon her all of her hair floated past her face to the front of her. She began making her hair grow faster than it previously was. Yukiko practiced moving her hair around, starting slowly at first and eventually making it move faster. She would whip it up and down, left to right, and all around above her head.

Now she had to pick a target. She chose a relatively thin tree and directed her hair toward it. Her hair reached the tree and rubbed against it lightly. She just had to wrap her hair around now. Yukiko used the same technique she had used to bring her hair around her head. Her hair moved slowly around the tree. It looked as if a snake was climbing it, writhing around the width of the tree.

Yukiko knew that she had to learn to tighten her grip on the tree. She pulled her hair tightly toward her, but all that did was make her let go of the tree. She sent her hair toward th tree again and made it grab onto the tree again. Her hair wrapped itself around the tree tighter this time. She pulled again. Her hair slipped a bit, but it held the tree.

She smiled. She was making progress.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

Learned ^^

[Yukiko]

Yukiko let go of the tree she had been practicing on. She brought her hair over to her and rested it on the ground beside her. She then grabbed the scroll and opened it a bit further to peruse the next jutsu.

Ninpou: Kami Hari (Ninja Art: Hair Needles)
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu, Offensive
Effect: Sends a few masses of hair rushing towards the opponent in an attempt to wound them.
Special: "Hand Seals"- Rat, Dragon, Monkey, Hold Ram
Drawback: Can be easily dodged.
Description: The user performs the required handseals, hardening a few strands of hair on their head. They then stand straight on end and finally launch themselves towards the opponent. There can be a maximum of ten strands shot at once, and because of their small size are very difficult to see but can only cause the most insignificant of damage (almost like a pin prick)
Limit: Must know Ninpou: Kami Enchou

While she knew how to control where her hair went and how it moved, Yukiko wasn't sure how to make her hair stiff enough to create needles and then launch them. She supposed she would just have to learn.

She started by lifting her hair with her chakra off the ground. She performed the necessary handseals and focused on a few strands of her hair to begin with. She pumped more chakra into those specific strands and thought about things that were stiff.

"Rocks, bricks, metal..."

She could barely feel the weight of the strands she had selected. She wanted to make them hard enough to the point that they would actually weigh something. The chakra continued to pour into these strands. She started to focus on just one strand in specific. The hair strand began to harden slowly.

((not finished))

[|Ayame Unbound|]

+2 2/10 All unfinished training posts will be graded as they are.

[Yukiko]

((didn't know that... thanks lol))

2/10

The strand of hair continued to harden. Yukiko was pleased with her work so she decided to try and launch the hair strand toward the tree she'd been practicing with. It would have to detach itself from her head and be sent out. This was a feat she knew she'd have trouble with. She knew how to control where her hair went, but not how to cut it off.

She decided to focus on the launching part of the jutsu. She would wind her hair back and thrust it forward. She started slowly at first and eventually began to pick up speed. She then tried doing this with two at a time. It was a bit more difficult now because she had more than one focus. She continued the thrusting motion with her hair.

As she got more comfortable with the technique, she began using four at a time. Her goal was to make it to ten at once since that was the limitation that was described on the scroll. Since there was a limit she assumed that it would be quite a tough goal to accomplish. As she moved onto five she started having trouble. Her movements were getting slower and the hair strands didn't seem to be as hard as they used to be.

Yukiko stopped the thrusting and began to focus more on the hardening of her future projectiles. Once again, she would think about the solidifying process she had used earlier. One strand at a time became hardened. When she was satisfied with her work she began the thrusting again. It started off slowly once more, but this was to be expected.

She got back into the groove of things even though she had five going at once. She did this for a little while more until she was comfortable with it again. Now to move onto six. She lifted another strand and brought it up with the rest of them. She stopped her hair from moving again and worked on hardening them all again. This process was becoming repetitive, but it was necessary for her to do this if she wanted to learn the technique.

Yukiko started the launching motion with all six of the strands, starting off slowly and bringing them to the speed she thought would be good for launching them. Now that she was comfortable with six she decided to bump it up to eight. She knew this would be hard, but she wanted to learn this as fast as possible.

Since six were already hard she just focused on the two that weren't. it didn't prove to be too difficult. With eight going at once, it took more concentration for her than her previous attempts. Like before, she started off slowly and brought all eight to the speed she thought she would need to launch them effectively. It was actually easier than she thought it would be. It must have been because she had been practicing these same motions over and over again.

"I guess I'll go for all ten now."

Two more strands of hair joined the ranks. She pumped her chakra through them just as she had before making them as had as the others that were already there. Controlling those ten, specific strands at once proved to be more difficult than she had hoped.

"This must be why ten is the limit."

The strands of hair started off shaky. They didn't seem to have any real direction. Yukiko sighed. She would have to start out slowly again and pick up speed like she had before. She finally brought them up to speed, but it was quite difficult. She hoped that she woiuld get used to it over time and that the technique would prove useful for all the problems it was causing her already. With all ten moving together, Yukiko smiled. She then remembered that she still needed to learn how to launch them. After that she would need to learn how to direct them at a moving target. she sighed again and got herself ready.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

Yukiko, it says in the Jutsu its a D rank, that's 10 points not thirty xD

Ninja Art Hair Needles is Learned!

[Yukiko]

Yukiko opened the scroll a bit more to reveal the next jutsu. She would keep training until she couldn't train anymore. She wanted to be able to keep up with Makoto and Misa. They seems to be a bit more experienced than she was.

Ninpou: Kami Harihana (Ninja Art: Hair Needle Field)
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu, Offensive
Effect: Creates a field of up to five meters of spikey hair.
Special: "Hand Seals"- Horse, Rabbit, Dragon, Dog, (hold)Ram
Drawback: The user cannot see while performing this technique.
Description: The user performs the required handseals, ending and holding on the Ram seal. The user then moves their body down, almost like bowing towards their opponent. However, the hair on the top of the user's head has now grown sharp and stiff, and upon flipping their hair forward in the bowing motion, it all protrudes out sharply and rapidly, creating a field of up to five meters in needle-like hair, impaling anyone caught within the needle field.
Limit: Must know Ninpou: Kami Hari

She filled her lungs with air and let it all out at once. She did this a few more times and continued.

Yukiko looked at the scroll and performed the handseals that were written down on it. The technique wanted her to become like a porcupine. She was used to making her hair hard, but not all of it at once. She decided to focus on chunks of her hair at a time and eventually have the whole thing done. She mentally separated her hair into five parts. She started with the leftmost section. This would take a bit longer than just strands at a time.

She would start closest to her head and work her way down to the tips. She imagined that her hair was turning to steel as she felt the chakra flow through her hair. It was tingly again. Like the last time. She felt the hair close to her scalp stiffen. It was much easier than she thought it would be. The earlier training had made it simpler for her now.

Her hair was now very long from the training she had done before so it took a bit longer than she thought it would to get to the very end of section one. Once it was completely stiffened he started with section two. Like before, she started with the hair closest to her head and went down the section all the was down to the tips. She kept the image of her hair turning to steel in her mind as does this.

As she got to the next section is would move quicker than it had before. It started stiffening more smoothly now instead of in choppy burst as the first two had done. Once again, it went from her head to the tips. Then she started on the fourth section. It moved quicker and smoother this time from head to tips. Then came the fifth section. She tried to keep in mind that she would have to keep the previous sections stiff as she made this last section stiffen as well. It did slow down a bit, but it still went very smoothly from top to bottom.

Now that she knew she could get all of her hair to harden, she decided to work on doing it all at once. This would prove to be a difficult task. She stopped the chakra and let her hair grow soft. Once it did, Yukiko performed the necessary handseals and started the technique again. With the image of steel in mind, she started to harden her hair.

It stiffened much faster than she had anticipated, but not as fast as she would have liked. It was still choppy as well. She let her hair soften and began the process all over again. It would go much faster this time. Yukiko smiled at the progress she was making. She would know all these techniques in no time. At least, she hoped she would.

Before she knew it, all of her hair hardened within a few seconds. Now she would have to learn to flip it all quickly and create spikes with her hair all at once.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

10/30 ^^

[Yukiko]

10/30

The progress that she had just made caused her to go into this part of the training with more zeal. She practiced the hardening of all her hair a bit more before she turned her attention to the flipping of her hair and making it all harden almost instantaneously.

Yukiko started with the motion, simply bowing her head down. With this her hair fell to the front and to the sides of her face making her look like the girl from "The Ring". She did this a few time to get as much of it to the front as she could. She then realized that she would have to use some chakra in order to control where her hair went and then stiffen it.

She practiced this movement with the added chakra flow a few times. She would bow her head down and create a wall by spreading out her hair. From here she stiffened her hair to create a hard wall of hair. She supposed that this could be useful as well, but spikes that could pierce would cause more damage.

She bowed her head and used the chakra to form a solid wall of hair and then stiffened it immediately. She had done it! She practiced this a few more time until she was satisfied and decided to move onto the next part which she knew would give her the most trouble.

[Tenkai]

+5
`15/30]

[Yukiko]

15/30

Yukiko readied herself for the next part of her training for this particular technique. She would need to flip over all of her hair and stiffen it all in a matter of seconds. Probably less. Not only that, but it would have to encompass an area of five meters. She took a few deep breaths and started practicing the steps she had already learned.

Once she was comfortable to start the next step she used her chakra to control her hair and spread it out as far as possible. I didn't quite reach five meters because her hair wasn't long enough, but it would do for now. She hardened her hair now that it was all spread out. This is what the technique should look like.

She let her hair soften and brought it all back to her. She needed to learn to do this very quickly. As if someone were attacking her. She tried again. Yukiko flipped her hair over and stiffened it as fast as she could. She was satisfied with this part of the technique. What was frustrating her was the fact that she couldn't spread her hair out fast enough.

Instead of stiffening it right away, she decided to spread it out as quickly as possible and then stiffen it. Hopefully this would work. She bowed her head and spread out her hair then stiffened it. It took much longer than she had hoped, but it was progress.

She continued flipping her hair over herself and spreading it out as far as possible a few more times. Each time she did this she would stiffen her hair and create the wall of hair needles. Every time she did it her execution time got shorter and shorter. It still wasn't fast enough to be considered battle ready though.

After a few deep breaths, Yukiko was ready to start again. She had to remember to keep the image of a wall of spears in her mind. This would help her understand the technique better and, in turn, made her learn it faster.

Once again, she went through the steps: performing the handseals, bowing her head down, spreading her hair out, and stiffening it. This time it was much faster. The technique was almost ready enough to take onto the field. She performed it five more times. Each time was better than the last.

Finally, on her sixth time, she performed the technique with lightning speed. It was much faster than she had previously done. She mentally patted herself on the back. There were still a few kink she wanted to work out, but for the most part it was ready to go.

[Tenkai]

+8
`23.30]

[Yukiko]

23/30

It seemed that her hair wasn't as hard as it could be. If she wanted the technique to become more effective she would have to work on this. It was difficult because of the amount of hair. It would only get harder the more hair she grew so she knew that she would need to work on it a bit more. She also wanted to work more on the speed of the technique itself.

Yukiko went through every step of the technique slowly, taking note of every imperfection in her execution. Just like she thought, her hair wasn't as hard as it could be and her speed wasn't up t par. I fshe wanted to use this technique in battle, she would have to work on both of these aspects.

She decided to break it down like she had when she first started learning the technique. She began with the stiffness of her hair. She started pumping chakra through it as she had before making it harder and harder the longer she did it. Finally, she got it to the stiffness she would need in order to make it work correctly.

Next, she would flip her hair over and make it spread out as far as she could get it and created a wall of hair needles. She added the previous step to it and made the wall stiffen to the point where if someone were to walk into it the would be severely hurting. Yukiko started getting a little frustrated with the technique. It seemed as though there was something she was missing.

She continued going through the steps, one by one, until she was satisfied with each step. Now she just had to put them all together. This is what proved to be the difficult part. It was too hard to do all of this in a couple of seconds, but that is what it would take to make this technique effective.

Yukiko flipped her hair over and stiffened it fairly quickly, but it was still taking too long. If someone were to attack her as she was doing it, she would be screwed. They could get in there and attack her while she was vulnerable. That would be bad.

She put everything she had into making it work. She needed it to work. As she started it again, she had a realization. If she started to stiffened it as she was flipping it over, she would be able to make this work correctly. So she put her plan into action. She started stiffening her hair and then she flipped it over and stiffened it even more to create the wall that she would cause some serious pain.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

+7 learned~

[Yukiko]

Ninpou: Kamikabe (Ninja Art: Hair Wall)
Rank: "B" Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu, Defensive
Effect: Creates a wall with a size of ten feet in length and eight feet in eight.
Special: "Hand Seals"- Same as Hair Extension
Drawback: The hair, unless undergoing special training, is only truly capable of blocking Taijutsu attacks.
Description: A unique ninjutsu ability in which the user will perform a bow-like action after making the required Hand Seals. From there, their hair will extend outwards rapidly, creating a wall with previously stated dimensions. The hair itself is capable of resisting up to Three "C" Rank Taijutsu abilities or one "B" rank Taijutsu ability.
Limit: Must know Ninpou: Kami Enchou

Yukiko knew this next technique was going to be rough. There was nothing to do but dive in headfirst. She took in a few deep breaths, like she did before she started learning new techniques. The image she would need to keep in mind throughout the learning process would be a stone wall. She focused herself and took one last breath. She performed the proper handseals and began attempting to learn the technique.

She started by growing her hair out a little longer than it already was. She would start with the speed portion of the technique and then work on the defensive part. Her hair began swinging wildly. She was trying to gain speed. She would swing it around and slam it into the ground creating a thin wall in front of her. Every time her hair hit the ground it kick up some dirt and make a small indent in the ground.

Slowly, she would expand the 'wall'. It was relatively narrow to begin with and now it was about as wide as her body. She needed to work on how to move her hair as fast as possible with it being so wide. Wind resistance would be a problem the wider it got.

((I'll finish it later... judge as you wish))

[adero]

3/80