Broken Bones [Training]

[Jin Hoshigake]

Bone Claws
Rank: "D"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: The user pushes the knuckles of their fingers a little outwards and quickly exerts out three claws from the indents of the knuckles into three like claws.
Special: ---
Drawback: "D" As long as the claws are out the user will undergo the disease capability because of the bones being within the inner body as well as the natural healing capability found within the Bones of the user.
Description: The user exerts outwards three claws from their inner part of their skin that is located near their knuckles. The bones along their fingers and the muscles along their fingers pushes out the bones in a hardened shape form. The bone solidifies making it seem like three large like claws as the claws are pushed out in a distance of approximately eighteen inches in length.
Limit: Kaguya Bloodlimit, Must know Bone Pulling

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“The human body is an interesting thing,” Susumu spoke to himself as he moved about as if a dancer would, smiling to himself. “So many bones in the body that can be manipulated, or broken, in different ways.” He stopped, standing on his tip-toes as his arms shot out before him. “The bones themselves are weapons which, if used properly, can destroy a person in a split second.” The sound of flesh parting for bones to appear was suddenly heard as Susumu looked at his knuckles. The flesh had actually moved out of the ways so that bones from the knuckles could be seen. They moved very slowly, but they were still there. “Bone Claws definitely fall into that category of bone weapons, but how much damage can they truly do? We shall find out.”

His mouth opening as he sighed slightly, Susumu was already having a hard time pushing the bones out of his hands. He was a good Kaguya, but he was still learning since he had left his family. He had learned a lot from his father and, without him, it is tons harder just to learn a simple D-Rank technique. Not wanting to dwell on the past, Susumu went back to looking at his knuckles. “Push the bones out,” he whispered as the white, hard bone pushed out more. This wasn’t very painful as it was a bit of an annoyance. Susumu knew he could do this, but then why was he having a hard time doing it? He needed to get stronger, and he needed to get stronger fast.

Looking at his right hand, Susumu now knew that he could push out the three bones in that hand, but what about his left hand? He looked over at it. He decided he would work on that while continuing the right hand and then come back to work on both of them simultaneously. Then he would just go off beating the crap out of things until he was satisfied with the results. He looked at his left hand, working hard on pushing the bones out of his hands, out of his knuckles, and into the cold air that always covered the Snow Country. Feet planted into the soft snow firmly, Susumu slowly managed to push out the bones in his left hand. A smile grew over his face.

“Once you think you have mastered, you should start over again.” Susumu retracted the bones from both hands and shot his arms out in front of him, but slightly downward. He moved the bones around in his arms and hands without bringing them out into the air so soon. He wanted to get a good flow, a good momentum going so that he would be able to bring the claws out completely instead of in a slow process like he had done before. Bending his elbows, Susumu took a deep breath and shot both arms out. As soon as they were at full length the claws sprouted out the entire eighteen inches in just a second. “And once you have mastered again, you must test it out.”

Susumu’s little house, hut, thing was surrounded by a small patch of forest in the Snow Country. He had done this for a reason. He moved into forest, swiftly moving around, scratching up all the trees with his newly learned technique. Once the bones made contact with the bark of the wood they immediately scratched and scraped against it. They would be a useful tool in a sticky situation; that much was for sure. After doing this for a few more minutes, Susumu stopped and returned to the outside of his house. “What to learn next…”

[|Ayame Unbound|]

Learned. Nice job! Add it to your bio~

[Jin Hoshigake]

Bone-erang
Rank: "D"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: The user open palms taking out what would look like a boned boomerang and hurls it towards the user for quick release.
Special: ---
Drawback: When the user first takes out the bone they suffer the consequences of the disease.
Description: The user creates a boomerang projectile out of the palm of their hand. They quickly contract the muscles within their arm and hand and eases it out. As they do so the muscles and the rapid healing motion quickly occurs even more as the bone is bent more and more to create what would look like a boomerang. The user then quickly hurls the bone towards the opponent as it would fly out sailing into the air, but do to the mechanics of the bone and even though it is shaped quite nicely the boomerang does not come back to the user when thrown.
Limit: Kaguya Bloodlimit, Must know Bone Pulling

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“Though sometimes bones can be extended or pulled out to be used for a melee weapon, there are ranged attacks that can be used as well.” The muscles in his right arm contracting, Susumu was trying to figure out just how to pull out this bone to use it for a boomerang. Quickly a bone was formed out of his right hand, but it definitely didn’t look like a boomerang of any kind he had ever seen before. It was more like a stick of some sort. Laughing to himself, Susumu had to focus more on the appearance of the bone and how exactly he was forming it before he took it out of his hand. He couldn’t be pulling out stick-bones in the middle of a fight.

Readying himself once more, Susumu thought about what was going on inside of his arm before he just carelessly started pulling bones out. He closed his eyes for a brief moment, thinking about the shape that a boomerang really was. It was like a curved L-shape, or something similar to that, so before Susumu even reached in to take out the bone he would have to form that curve. He could feel his muscles contract once more as the bone formed in his hand. He sighed a little as he prepared to take it out again. He was almost sure it was the right shape this time, but there was only one way to really find out.

That same sound was heard again. The moving of the flesh, that gooey sound as the bone then suddenly sprouted out from within Susumu’s body. To anybody other than a Kaguya this would be extremely painful, but Susumu let it happen with pride. He reached in and took a solid hold onto the bone. Pulling it out slowly, he found the part where it distinctly curved into that L-like shape. Smiling, Susumu pulled the rest of it out and looked at it. It was an ivory color, like most bones, and definitely looked like a boomerang, even if it was made of his bones.

The flesh closed back up as Susumu thought he would make a few more before throwing them out. He wasn’t sure how useful this technique would be, but there was no harm in learning it, right? It just made him stronger in the end. Muscles contracted, and this was now a regular process rather than a training session. Smirking now instead of smiling, Susumu pulled out another boomerang bone. He put the two he had already made down onto the snow. He would make a third one before throwing them all. The third one took the least amount of stress on his body. He was getting better already.

Picking up the other two so that he now held all three in one hand, Susumu smiled and thought of how he should throw them. He put his arm across his mouth so that it was stretched out completely. He then whipped his arm around so that all three were launched simultaneously, but in different directions. One was to the far left, one in the middle, and one to the far right. Since he was in the forest their only real targets were the trees in front of them. They all hit the tree, pricking off the bark, and were stuck in there. A blow like that could likely cause a concussion.

[adero]

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[Jin Hoshigake]

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Right palm open with the arm bent at the elbow, Susumu planned to do this one more time just to make sure he had the technique absolutely mastered. He could feel the bones in his arm shifting around as the muscles contracted to fit the situation. Left hand moving in as the flesh parted, making that very odd sound, Susumu knew the appearance before his hand ever touched the ivory colored bone. He could feel the curve moving against the skin on the inside of his arm. He could could tell the shape with his eyes closed based solely on the feel of it on the inside of his body. It was a very... interesting feeling. It was one that the Kaguyas were used to, so it wasn't a big deal by any means.

Quickly pulling out the bone from his arm, Susumu smiled as he saw that it was shaped just like a boomerang would be. He couldn't ask for anything more. Deciding he would do the same thing he had done before, Susumu began to make two more bones. He had to wait about two minutes in between the building of each one. He couldn't just go about making these one right after the other without a single pause. That'd be madness. After he made sure he had three, Susumu held all three in his right hand like he had done before. "No, let's mix this up a little bit." He put one in his left hand now.

Grasping all three tightly, Susumu threw them all at the same time. They curved around each other, making the attack look very complicated. The boomerang bones moved over and below each other, crossing each other, and eventually they all hit three different trees. They were stuck into the trees particularly hard. "Good enough for me."

[|Ayame Unbound|]

Learned.

[Jin Hoshigake]

Hessendan (Finger Bullets)
Rank: "C"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: A technique that enables the user the capability of contracting the muscles and nerves within their body to where it begins to build pressure within shooting them off with such speed to pierce the human body and some minor defenses.
Special: ---
Drawback: Whenever used the user undergoes the capability of disease under effect increasing the calcium within their body which makes them closer to dieing unless gaining medical treatment.
Description: A technique that launches finger bones in a projectile like form. The Muscles and the nerves contract against one another greatly to where they somewhat spiral in within the body. When the user constricts their fingers in such a way they begin to push the bullet outwards as the bullet begins to gain pressure from the way it is constricted until the bone is projected out of the human body spiraling at high speeds being sent off towards its target.
Limit: Kaguya Bloodlimit. This is the basic of basics and must be known in order to use other Jutsus of the Bloodlimit. Must know Bone Pulling

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This was one of the more difficult techniques Susumu wanted to train, but it was still one of the basics of the Kaguya bloodline. He wasn’t sure if that made any sense or not, but he forgot the thought. Holding out his arms straight in front of him with all his fingers pointing like arrows to nowhere in particular, Susumu thought about exactly what he had to do with this technique. He was going to split it up into three parts, but what should he be doing in all three parts? He would have to focus on the nerves and muscles in his hands first, so he thought that’d be a good place to start. Then he could work on launching the projectiles and finally he could bring it all together. A lot of Taijutsu is just going over things multiple times to make sure you understand and can perform it well.

In this technique the muscles and the nerves had to contract and push in such a way to launch the bones from Susumu’s fingers, but it had to be done at an extremely quick pace. If it wasn’t done fast enough then the bones wouldn’t get the momentum that they needed to truly be bullets. Pushing the nerves and the muscles together and trying to spiral them in the body, Susumu could already tell that this was going to be a pain in the ass. It was very hard to get everything moving, but once it did start to move then it would produce very nice results. Susumu just had to get to those results as quickly as he could.

Pushing not only the muscles and nerves, but the bones themselves to the utmost limit that he could, Susumu could feel his body straining just to give out a small result. The constriction of the fingers, such as what Susumu was attempting to do, was supposed to pressure the fingers so that the bones were pushed out at amazing speeds, but all that was happening now was a stress on the body. “I have to push my body further!” He yelled out as he constricted more, pushed more, pressured more, but nothing was happening. “This is useless! Why the hell am I even trying?!” He sighed to himself, but he wouldn’t give up. He had to make the Kaguya brothers proud. He wouldn’t stop until he had this thing nailed.

The contraction of the muscles and nerves worked quicker this time, but Susumu was still having a hard time getting the pressure up to its limit so that the bones would be pushed out of his hands. He could feel the shifting of bones in his hands and arms, which was a good thing, but they weren't shifting at the pace that they needed to be. They were going much slower, the pressure not enough to force them out suddenly. Letting out a deep breath, Susumu let his muscles and nerves go back into their regular positions in his body. He was going to basically reset everything he had just done so that he could get a fresh start on this thing. He was obviously missing something key. He just had to figure out what he was doing wrong.

Taking a few deep breaths, Susumu went straight back into it as he held his arms and hands out flat in front of him. The muscles and nerves contracted as the bones themselves were forced upward into his knuckles. They were preparing to be launched, but first had to get that sudden push and pressurization. If they didn't get that then they wouldn't have the momentum to go forward like a bullet does. Contracting, pushing together, shortening, doing everything that he possibly could, Susumu could feel a change but not a major one. He felt something drip out of his fingers as he looked down. Little white bones had impacted the snow. He had made the bullets, even if they didn't go that fast.

[Jin Hoshigake]

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The inside workings of Susumu was slowly killing him. He was starting to feel pain and knew he would have to take a break, but he wanted to push himself as much as he could during his training. He contracted his muscles and nerves, pushed them together, made them smaller. He did everything he could to ensure that the pressure would be enough to push the bones out of the tips of his fingers. They would then go flying forward at a remarkable speed to the many trees of the forest in front of the Kaguya. Hopefully they would be able to gain a lot of speed and momentum instead of just falling out of the tips of his fingers like they had done before. He needed them to be powerful. He couldn't afford to have a single weak technique in his arsenal. Everything built towards something.

Everything in his body was going the way it should, but the pressure still wasn't building up to what it needed to be. Susumu put as much energy and constriction into his hand now as possible. At the wrist it was cut off, any circulation of anything. It was all put to an immediate end, but it wasn't stopped here. He had to suddenly cut off circulation up to his fingers, but it had to be done with such haste that the bones were shot out with the speed of bullets. That thought kept running through Susumu's head, but he found himself unable to do it. He sighed to himself, but he had no time to think. He just had to do the action, not think about it.

The circulation was very suddenly cut off at the tips of his fingers, but there was no shooting of the bones. In fact, Susumu had actually done what he wanted to do, but he had done it in the wrong place which resulted in cutting of the actual projectiles themselves. He had cut the bone bullets in half as they leaked onto the snow before him. So either he did what he wanted to do in the wrong place or he couldn't keep the speed so he ended up doing nothing at all. “This is one hell of a frustrating technique.” He shook his head as he thought it over one time, but he still came to the conclusion that he just had to do it. He couldn't think about it, he just had to do it.

Constricting the muscles and the nerves in his arms, Susumu thought very hard about this as he did it actually. He kept thinking about it, trying to figure out the best way to do it, but he wasn't exactly sure. He figured he should keep doing this for a few more minutes then cut off the circulation very quickly which would provide the adequate pressure to force the bone bullets out at an alarming pace. Smiling to himself, Susumu thought that he had finally come up with a halfway decent plan. He didn't know if it would work or not, but what was the harm in trying? He kept the constriction process going until he was satisfied. Then circulation was quickly cut it off, but the bullets just leaked out of his fingers again. “Damn it all! How the hell do you do this?!”

That's when it clicked. Susumu had always said to himself that he needed to stop thinking and just do it. He had been thinking about the constriction process way too much. He had to just let everything happen at once so that the bullets just thought off and there wasn't a single thought about any of the process leading up to that. He smiled as he put his arms back down to his sides, wanting everything to get as planned from the beginning. Susumu quickly lifted up both of his hands, constricted his muscles and nerves, and cut off circulation leading up to his fingers. Everything happening at once with that spiraling feeling in his bones, the bone bullets were quickly launched in a straight line forward. They crashed against the trees, leaving imprints, but nothing too exciting. “I did it.”

[Jin Hoshigake]

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Now that Susumu was confident enough to know that he could actually perform this technique he had to perfect it as much as possible. This just meant repeating it and adding onto things or modifying things to be one-hundred percent sure everything was at its very best. If something was even a little off then it wouldn't provide the full punch that it was meant to provide. A technique that is cracked in some way isn't worth having at all, especially if a technique is one of the basic ones such as this. This is one of those techniques, like Bone Pulling, that was meant to lead up to the best techniques of the Kaguya bloodline. This was going to give Susumu the best techniques ever once he actually got to them. He didn't think it'd take long to master his bloodline though.

His arms out in front of him now, Susumu knew how to perform the technique now so he just had to think about other things, like the appearance of the bullets themselves. He closed his eyes and thought about it. They had round tops, those were the ones that came head-first out of his fingers, and then they led into some sort of triangular base. Since they went into a spiral as soon as they left Susumu's fingers, the round part would be twisting particularly fast. It would be able to drill into things, like skin, or bark, or the ground, or any other substance. They would probably even be able to get through things like water and sand, which would be good against release users. So now that the appearance was finished, what else was there to really think about? He was running out of ideas already.

His fingers pointed directly in front of him, Susumu thought that he should just keep running through this and be creative as he went along. He could feel his nerves constricting along with his muscles. The bones were hardening, getting stronger, as the projectiles were ready and were pushed into the tips of the fingers. They awaited the pressurization that would launch them forward at an alarming speed. Only somebody who would be able to see small, fast-moving objects would be able to successfully trace these and get out of the way of them. The good thing about Taijutsu was that it was often unexpected. It didn't use handseals like Ninjutsu does.

With everything going on at once, Susumu just shut his eyes and thought about the appearance of those white little bullets. He thought about how they should shoot out of his body and how they should move going through the air. They should spiral through, cutting the air around them until they finally made impact with the bark on the tree. Then they should continue to cut through the wood until they lost all momentum. Once they stopped the would already be lodged into the wood and nobody would be able to get them out without cutting more bark out of the trees. Susumu smiled as he opened his eyes and prepared to launch them.

His body did the same actions as Susumu had thought of before. At once the muscles and nerves constricted and the pressure was just too much. The bone bullets were quickly launched out of the tips of his fingers, spiraling through the air until they finally made impact with the bark of the trees of the forest. They did exactly as predicted. They went into the bark of the trees, cutting deep into them until they lost their speed and were just stuck inside of the trees. Susumu just smiled and crossed his arms over his chest. “And that's how you do it.”

[Tenkai]

Learned.
Add it~

[Jin Hoshigake]

Yanagi no Mai (Dance of the Willows)
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: A Taijutsu technique dedicated to the arts of moving fluently to attack multiple ranges around using fluent motions while using two concentrated features along their arms as primary weapons.
Special: ---
Drawback: As long as the bones are within the very palms, it slowly begins to take the effect of the Disease as it is needed in order to keep the arm from becoming weak, and then failing.
Description: Extending from both palms are two lance-like bone protrusions, usually around 1-1.3 meters in length, which is a little smaller than a typical katana. It takes quite a bit of balance to even begin with this graceful dance of death, for each attack is a graceful dancer-esque motion, flowing like water between each motion. As such, this very dance is quite flexible, allowing for a large range of motion from strike to strike. Thus it is indeed possible to flow from strike to strike, or instantly change up how one would have struck before, within the motions of the arm of the human body of course. Due to this nature, it is most effective when used to battle groups or swarms of enemies, as it makes it much easier to create a perfectly harmonic balance of attack and defense. This is known as the First Dance of the Kaguya.
Limit: Kaguya Bloodlimit, Must know Bone Pulling

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The first thing that had to be accomplished in this technique was growing the two, small, katana-like swords made of bones that extended out of the palms. Susumu knew that this alone would be hard to do so he would do that before even beginning with the movements. He would then do the dance itself as the second phase and the third part of the training session would simply be hitting random targets. That would cover the dance. This was just the introduction, like Bone Pulling and Finger Bullets, to other, much more powerful techniques. Susumu was eager to learn the most powerful Kaguya techniques and wouldn't stop until he had accomplished that. It was his goal for the moment. “So let's get this show on the road! Time to make some sword bones!” Smiling to himself, Susumu got right into the training.

Holding his arms out straight in front of him like he had done with Finger Bullets, Susumu knew that all he had to do was push out the bones from inside of his arm so that they would go straight out the center of his palms. If he couldn't even do this then he wouldn't be able to pull off any part of this technique. And if he couldn't pull off the technique then he wouldn't be able to learn the other Kaguya Dances. He closed his eyes and thought about how to manipulate the bones in his arms to do this. He would probably form a new bone that went directly down the center of the inside of his arm. The other bones and muscles and things in the way would move out of the way so that the bones could extend out of the center of the palm. That seemed simple enough.

Forming new bones or taking away old bones wasn't a very easy process, but it wasn't by any means painful either. No Kaguya had a set number of bones since they could replace bones that had been taken out of their body or make new bones, which was what Susumu was trying to do right now. He knew that forming a new bone wasn't the easiest thing to do, but it wasn't that hard. He just had to think about what he was doing to make sure he didn't screw himself over somehow. His arms pointed directly out in front of him, the two new bones were formed directly down the center of his arms, pushing the other bones and muscles out of the way. They extended outward, going through the center of his palms and sticking out about one meter in length. Susumu smiled as he moved his arms around, getting a feel for it. “I can definitely get used to something like this. It's my kinda style.”

Something definitely didn't feel right about this, though. The bones themselves weren't as strong as other bones were, which was a problem for sure. If the bones weren't strong enough then a hard strike could shatter them completely, which wasn't really an option in the middle of a battle. These bones were supposed to be able to stand up against things like swords and even just defenses that people could put up themselves. Moving over to the biggest tree he could find, Susumu quickly threw both his arms against the tree, the bones going sideways against them. Once they made contact both bones instantly shattered, breaking into ivory pieces that fell to the ground. “Damn it.”

Clearing out the new bones that he had created, Susumu started over again. When he formed the two bones this time he made sure that he did it carefully and slowly, not wanting to mess this up. In the future he wouldn't be able to do it this slowly, but for now he figured it wouldn't be too much of a problem. He could feel the other bones and muscles moving out of the way to allow room for these two new bones to take place. They extended a meter out of the center of his palm as they had done before. This time when Susumu threw the bones against the trees, only the tree shook. The bones stood firmly. Susumu smirked as he nodded. “That's how us Kaguyas do it.”

[Jin Hoshigake]

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Dancing is definitely an art in itself, but people didn't really understand it as well as the Kaguyas did. They made some of their most powerful techniques in the art of dance. The Dance of the Willows was no exception to this, though Susumu had never been one to really dance that much. He knew that it was a rather elegant dance which focused on being graceful and elegant. Dancing was never meant to be stiff by any means, it was meant for people to move fluently through the movements. In this part of the training it wasn't really about the striking, but rather how the movements went. The movements of the arms and legs were what mattered in this training session. Susumu would get to the striking and strength part of it later.

His feet spread out more with each step, then came back together and went back apart. His white robe swayed very magnificently in not only the small breeze, but because of the fast movements that he was going through. Susumu could only smile as his feet made almost no sound. Maybe in the middle of a battle nobody would hear the sounds of feet on the ground, but while doing this dance Susumu just wanted to be as graceful as possible. He didn't want to make an unnecessary noises or do an action that didn't go along with the rest of the dance. Maybe they were stupid thoughts, but he was a bit of a perfectionist when it came to Kaguya techniques. He didn't want to mess them up or else he would feel like a failure to his own bloodline.

His arms swayed across his body, moving forward, diagonally, across, and then his entire body swung around. His body moved in such motions that people normally wouldn't really even think about. Only dancers could think like this. Susumu wasn't only thinking like a dancer, but also like a fighter. He had to make himself not only majestic and elegant, but also unexpected. This technique was meant to deal with multiple enemies and he wanted to make sure that not a single one of his opponents would be able to detect his next move. His only trouble would be against another Kaguya or somebody else that had unpredictable movements, like a Suiken user. Susumu suddenly stopped and took a deep breath. Dancing took a lot of energy out of anyone.

It didn't take him long to get back into the technique since he found it so interesting. He started by moving forward, quickly sidestepping, then doing that again a few more times. A person could repeat the same move a thousand times in different places, then change it up a little bit and the opponent would stay confused. To add to the confusion, usually fighters who trained like this would add random moves and take out random moves to keep their enemies guessing. Susumu kept adding things like moving backwards, sidestepping more, and dashing forward, but then he would take away some of these things as well. Different combinations, but really the same moves over and over again. Susumu, for one reason or another, found it so fascinating.

Finally moving his arms more than his legs, Susumu kept slashing in different ways, but he did it very quickly. If moves are done fast enough then an opponent can absentmindedly miss one. And, once one hit has landed, then a flurry of attacks will breach the defenses and now you become the one controlling the tempo of the fight. If you control the beat, you basically control who wins the fight as long as you never relinquish your power of the fight. A few slashes, then a flurry of stabs, a few more slashes, a lower blow across the legs, another flurry, and finish it by moving to their side, then moving back in front of them. As long as the moves were fast enough the opponent would be able to react. Susumu took his advantage of being a Taijutsu Master. He was just that fast.

[Jin Hoshigake]

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Taking a little break to make sure that his calcium was all clean and whatnot, Susumu went right back into it. He had to grow out the bones in the center of his hands again, but that wouldn't take very long at all. He actually didn't find that part hard, but rather the actual dance was the hard part. He was never used to moving so fluently and gracefully so it was definitely a change for him. Looking at his hands, Susumu grew a new bone down the middle of his arm, which pushed all the other bones and muscles out of the way. It grew in the middle of his arm and pushed out so that it was a meter into the air. It looked like it was growing out of the middle of his palm, but it went much deeper than that. If it grew just out of his palm then it would be rather weak.

Susumu just planned on hitting things with the bones to see how they worked, then he would combine it with the dance and ultimately finish learning the technique. He placed himself in the middle of the forest where all the trees were his targets. This was surely the best place to train for this type of technique. Not moving fluently at all, but rather, brutally, Susumu brought the bones in his hands to slash and stab into all the trees around him. A stab could actually bring the bone from one side of the tree straight to the other without so much as a crack in the bone. He could then pull it out with ease and go on slashing other trees. The slashes left a deep mark, which could be good for slashing things such as slitting necks or arteries. This technique would prove to be useful indeed.

“Now comes the dancing.” Smirking, Susumu just wanted to get the dancing going and then he could begin to slash around. He knew he had to start off dancing and gain momentum before he could start waving his bones around. He moved around the trees very gracefully, more-so than he thought he was really capable of doing. He would do this in a real fight, so he made sure he mentally noted how he moved right now. He was circling around them, but twisting his body and sidestepping a lot so as to keep his movements unpredictable. He had to make sure nobody knew what he was going to do next or else he could be countered rather easily. He even traced backwards sometimes and then went back forwards. It all just depended on how his enemies would react.

Adding in the slashes and stabs, Susumu did the same thing he had done before only instead of dancing he was also fighting. He was using both of the arms to slash the trees and then brought them together to produce a flurry of stabs on whatever target happened to be in front of him. In this case, it was just a tree. Twisting his feet around in a spin as he moved his body around, his white robe moving about as Susumu created his own wind, Susumu decided he would end this dance right here and now. He focused on one tree as he did three slashes, then twenty stabs together. Instead of the bones getting stuck in the wood, Susumu managed to bring them out and back in quite gracefullly. He didn't know he had it in him.

[Uchiha Satoshi]

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Learned

[Jin Hoshigake]

Tsubaki no Mai (Dance of the Camellia)
Rank: "C"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: A technique known where the user takes their own bone along their arm, and uses it in a dance formation attacking all those around, while still moving giving them the agility speed to evade certain capabilities.
Special: ---
Drawback: The first initial movement of taking out the bone costs as much as a normal "C" Rank due to its extreme size.
Description: A bone extends from the shoulder, what can be seen in the beginning resembling what appears to be a hilt, the rest of the bone still within the flesh. As the Kaguya pulls the bone from his body, it is instantly replaced with another bone in its stead, so as not to cause the Kaguya any form of discomfort. The bone itself is more katana-like, however the bone itself is less refined than that of Yanagi no mai, but that does not make it any less deadly. Lacking in the fluid grace to the extremes like that of Yanagi no Mai, the Kaguya is usually continuously on the move, making him quite the difficult target for enemies. Even though it no longer has the grace, it makes up for this loss with its impressive speed, normally striking before the opponent even has time to react. This is the Second Dance of the Kaguya.
Limit: Kaguya Bloodlimit, Must know Bone Pulling, Must know Yanagi no Mai (Dance of the Willows)

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With the first basic dance already down, Susumu proceeded onto the Dance of the Camellia. Like the first dance, this one had to deal with bone pulling, though in this one the bone came fully out of the body instead of just an extension. The bone itself came out of the shoulder, which meant that Susumu would probably take out the bone and form a new one in its place instead of forming a new bone and then taking it out. This was a different technique so a new approach to it was probably the best thing to do. The first phase of training would be dedicated to just taking out the bone. It had to be done quickly, but the bone still had to maintain a solid and strong form, otherwise it would just break apart. A broken bone is battle is worthless. Susumu simply couldn’t afford it.

His arms at his sides at the moment, Susumu closed his eyes so that he could think about his body better. He had learned a lot about the bones within his body but, being a Kaguya, he was lucky to not have a set number of bones. He could form new ones, lose old ones. He could basically do whatever the hell he wanted when it came to his body as long as he didn’t lose too many or let them get infected. He thought about how to pull out the bone in his shoulder and how to replace it. The replacement of the bone would have to be done as soon as the old one left, otherwise it would mess up Susumu’s moves in combat. He would move differently without that bone there. His arm would be a bit messed up because of it, thus making his arm’s movements different than normal.

The next thing that had to be done was that Susumu had to extend the bone so that it poked out of his flesh. The bone would be more of a sword than anything, so it would be like the hilt popping up for him to grab. He thought about it for a moment before the bone extended out of his shoulder just a few inches. Moving his best hand, the right one, back to his shoulder, Susumu grabbed hold of it and quickly pulled it out of his body completely. Unlike the bones that simply extended out of his hands before, Susumu now had more of a katana-like bone. He actually liked this one better. It just had a better feel to it as he waved it around a little bit. Before he had much time to play with it, though, Susumu fell to his knees in discomfort.

He hadn’t really been thinking, therefore the bone that was supposed to replace the one that he had just taken out wasn’t there. Susumu closed his eyes as he put his hands out in front of him so that he was on all fours. Jolts of pain and discomfort shocked through his body, making it hard to think about the part of his body where he needed to form a new bone. Concentrating as hard as he could, Susumu zeroed in on the part of his shoulder and quickly thought about the bone that was supposed to belong there. He had to think about how long it was, how wide, the shape, and how it fit with the other bones. He formed the bone out of another one, quickly replacing it.

His body straightening out after he rolled his shoulder a few times, Susumu smirked as he stood back up and looked at the bone in his hand. He had to at least test out its strength to make sure he could train with it for the rest of the day. He did a few spins towards a tree, ending as he slid down and unleashed his arm. The bone whipped around and hit the tree hard against its side. The bone didn’t break, but the tree suffered an impact as the base of it split and suddenly fell over. “Ah, yes. This bone is much more powerful than the two I was using in the other dance, but this is going to be a lot less graceful. I can already tell that much. Still… I am excited to get this going!”

[Jin Hoshigake]

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Like when he learned the first dance, Susumu was now going to focus on the actual dancing part this time and then finish off the technique with the striking of the bone that he took out of his shoulder. He found this dance not to be as graceful, but it seemed so much more useful when approaching a plethora of enemies. When doing this, Susumu will not allow himself a single break until he has completely mastered it. He would have to continuously be on the move and never stop. He also had to have impressive speed to accompany his non-stop dancing, which would probably end with him falling on his ass a couple dozen times. He definitely didn’t mind that if it meant he got to learn such a powerful technique of the Kaguya bloodline. He couldn’t ask for anything better.

Throwing the bone he had taken out of his shoulder to the ground, Susumu smirked to himself as he thought about how to move exactly. He had never been the most fluid or graceful of dancers and this was impractical, making it harder for him to learn. “Just feel the beat.” He closed his eyes and thought about all the sounds around him. The crunching of the snow on the ground, the breeze blowing past the branches, and even the creatures about the forest and in the air making sounds. It was all building towards a beat, a symphony, which Susumu was going to use in order to learn this technique. It wasn’t that difficult to just dance, right?

Moving his body around, Susumu’s arms still moved about very gracefully and fluidly, but this time he had more of a brutal intention about himself than when learning the first dance. He was moving much faster than before, as if in a mini-body flicker, and he was trying to make himself even more unpredictable. He knew that he had to make sure he was quick enough to hit his enemy before they had a chance to dodge or counter, but he still had to make his moves unpredictable. If he could combine the unpredictability along with his enhanced speed as not only a Kaguya, but a Taijutsu Master, then he would definitely be able to defeat any opponent, even another Kaguya. He just had to make sure he knew what he was doing so that he could control the tempo of the fight.

Swiftly moving in and around the trees, Susumu entered the forest, but he was going deep inside of it this time. He was moving around the trees, going into the densest part of it where it was almost impossible to step without at least brushing against the bark of a tree. Susumu’s training would involve never touching any of these trees, no matter how impossible it seemed. Though he was in the Snow Country, Susumu could already feel sweat dripping down his forehead. He was moving very quickly around the trees, which contributed to his ultimate downfall. Moving between two trees that were a bit too close together, Susumu ended up tripping as he was dancing around too fast.

About to hit the ground, Susumu’s training was still going on as he put his hand in front of him to break his fall, his back curved to the side just in order to avoid brushing against one of the trees. He moved his legs across each other and backed himself up a little bit so that he was able to regain composure of his body. “Just gotta get out of here now.” He swiftly moved around all of the trees, making sure that he was able to use his momentum in order to gain speed. He needed to be going as fast as possible so that his opponents would never even be able to see him coming. Seeing the exit of the forest back to his little hut-house, Susumu ended up tripping over his own feet and face-planting into the snow. “So close.”

[Jin Hoshigake]

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This was the last phase of Susumu’s training of this dance which meant that it was all merely about striking and stabbing power. Quietly walking over to where he discarded his bone katana, he picked it up and firmly placed it in his right hand. He would focus mainly on just striking with it and then he would combine it with speed and then finally with the dance itself in order to make this the perfect technique. Smirking, Susumu just wanted to test it out so he began to slash through the air recklessly. He just did a few horizontal swipes, then some diagonal, a few vertical. He kept repeating this, his grin just widening across his face. He did a flurry of stabs at the end, ending with a final diagonal slash so that he could look like a badass. He thought he was the cool Kaguya dude.

Looking at the biggest tree that he could possibly find on the outskirts of the forest near his little house, Susumu pointed his bone sword to it, as if calling it out. He was just going to use his own speed to start this thing out. He was about six feet tall, so his legs were pretty long so they were able to take pretty long strides. His feet lifted off the ground and covered a great distance across the snow covered ground. He smirked as he closed the distance from his original position to this hut in two, three seconds tops. The last step he took was rather a leap than anything else. He went past the tree, slashing it with the bone as he went past it. Kneeling on the ground, he just heard the crash as the tree was split in half and hit the ground. His grin got even wider. “Perfect.”

In order to make oneself faster, one must combine the right techniques together. Susumu knew that he was fast on his own two feet because he was a Taijutsu Master, but combined with something like a body flicker he was near untraceable. He also planned to go into learning the Initial Gate. Combine that with his natural speed and a body flicker and he was simply unstoppable. Smirking to himself, Susumu backed up to the side of his hut where he looked at the next biggest tree. He pointed it out and began to sprint over to it, combining his speed with a body flicker. It took not even a second to get over to it where Susumu then stuck the bone sword into the middle of the tree. He easily pulled it back out. He made a hole straight through the center of it. “Such power. I’m fascinated.”

Now combining his striking power, speed, and dancing together, Susumu would finish this technique up easily. He swiftly, but quickly moved into the middle of all the trees, slashing them as he went along. A lot of people thought that a simple slash here and there would only wound an opponent, but they were definitely wrong. A slit across somebody’s wrists could make them bleed out. It was the same case with their necks. A stab to the stomach would not only immobilize an opponent, but it would also make them bleed out. It was enough to be down on the floor bleeding, but when you can’t even move… It’d just be an easy kill. That’s how Susumu would put it.

His feet moving past each other as he twirled around in circles, Susumu didn’t pass up a single tree. His bone sword slashed and stabbed at every tree that he could find. He weaved in all directions, circling around the same trees, but changing up his movement pattern every time. He was nearly untraceable at his current speed, and combined with this unpredictability he was just unstoppable! He ended his little dance with a powerful stab into the tree at the center of the forest. He left the bone there as he turned his back and proceeded back to his hut. “I’m done.”

[|Ayame Unbound|]

Learned.

[Jin Hoshigake]

Speed of the Mind
Rank: "C", "B", "A"
Skill: Skill / Knowledge / TaiJutsu
Effect: Within this, this type of knowledge and technique enables the user the capability of withstanding the elements of the Chakra Gates. They must learn this multiple times. Without this the Chakra gates become more destructive within the body. The body must be capable of enduring the gates, and this allows the body to endure the speed for the gate.
Special: ---
Drawback: Must be learned each time before they go into a new gate. For Gates one through three they must learn the "C" Rank version, for Gates four through six they must learn the "B" Rank version, and for Gates six and seven they must learn the "A" Rank versions.
Description: ---
Limit: Must become a Chakra Gate User.

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Speed wasn't all about how fast you could physically move, but also about reaction timing. Susumu knew that if he couldn't react that fast then he would be hit without a chance to dodge, counter, or even block. He had to be ready for anything, and the prerequisites to the Chakra Gates would help him do that. Opening the Gate itself would just dramatically increase his speed and strength a few times over again. He knew that once he got the Gate open reaction times wouldn't really matter much because he would be pummeling his opponent. He wouldn't be worrying about defending, he'd be worrying about attacking. He was a natural attacker being a Taijtusu Master and a Kaguya. He was also naturally fast because of these two things. He was born to learn the Chakra Gates, though he only had an intention of learning the first three in his life.

“First comes natural speed.” Susumu said the phrase as he hopped up and down on his tip-toes. There was only a serious look shown on his face, nothing else. His aim was dead in front of him. It shot through the forest in front of him. He jumped off of his heels and into the air. He went a few feet before his feet finally touched back on the ground and he was in a running sprint. His arms were seemingly dragged behind him. He could feel his robe being pushed back because of the wind his body was creating just by running. He finally smiled to himself as he made his way into the forest. His goal was just to get into the forest, go to the middle, and come back out without ever touching a single tree, not even slightly.

Instead of just taking long steps like most other runners did, Susumu actually lifted his entire body off the ground with small jumps instead of just sprints. He gained more speed this way and he would be lighter on his feet. He would be able to dodge things a lot better as well since he could easily jump off the ground into a high jump straight in the air or leap to the left or right. He felt like his evasion skills were just better in general by running this way. He smiled to himself once more, but it was short lived as he soon cut around one tree only to meet a branch of another. It smacked him across the top of his forehead, knocking him to the ground where his back imprinted the snow. He looked straight up for a few moments before he jumped back to his feet. “Ouch.”

He rubbed his forehead, knowing there was just a red mark there and no cuts. “Let us continue then.” He smirked as he quickly pushed off the ground, ducking his head this time to make sure he didn't hit any high lying branches. His body arched over, he still took small jumps as he sprinted, and his arms still lagged behind him a bit. His gaze was set forward as he saw the middle of the forest, easily marked by the biggest tree in the entire forest. As he went past it he extended a bone in his index finger. He circled around it, creating a scratch mark across the entire thing to better mark it so that he would never be able to miss it as he trained. He circled around it, aiming to get back out of the forest where he had come in. He still had a ways to go though, and he planned to increase his speed.

His feet began to hit off the ground even harder and take him through farther leaps. His body was starting to push to its limits in terms of speed. Sweat dripped off of his forehead, past his cheeks, and rolled on down to his chin where it then fell, but where it went wasn't really noted. Susumu figured it would either hit his robe somewhere or it would fall on the ground some ways behind him. It didn't really matter though. What mattered was that he was pushing his body to its breaking point. He was going as fast as he could possibly go. He was traveling at a speed that he never though he would be able to travel. But, like every other time he got excited, his clumsiness messed up his moment of greatness. Just when he was about to get out of the entire forest, he tripped over an entanglement of roots on the ground and came tumbling in front of his little hut. “Good enough for me...”

[Jin Hoshigake]

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Not only is natural speed important, but so is unnatural speed. Well, not really unnatural, but that's what Susumu was going to call it anyway. Body Flicker was the technique that came to mind. Combine that with Susumu's already fast speed and the First Gate and he was basically on an enemy in a split second. He thought it'd be good to already practice with body flicker now so that h e would be more accustomed to using it once he was actually able to open the First Gate. So, he'd practice on two things for the second phase of this training. He would mix his speed with a body flicker and he would go from target to target, which would be trees, just giving small wounds using his bones. That's what he planned to do. Then he could practice on reactions for the last phase.

Taking a moment, Susumu extended a bone out of the center of his palm. That was what he would use in order to stab around his targets. He looked dead ahead at all the trees of the forest. By the time he was finished he would not leave a single one of them without some sort of wound. Leaning his body down with his left arm behind him (his right one was the one with the bone sticking out the palm), Susumu kicked off of the ground and immediately went into a body flicker, enhancing his speed a good bit. His initial kick off the ground combined with the body flicker sent him in a leap through the air which brought him several more feet than usual forward. He was already three-fourths the way to the first tree. He just smirked.

Heading into the forest with enhanced speed still, Susumu went past several trees without making a mark. He stopped and spun in a full circle on his heels. And, as he spun, he extended the bone in the center of his palm so that it was able to swiftly cut past all of the trees. Susumu then faced back forward, decreasing the size of the bone sticking out of his hand, as he quickly went back into his second body flicker. He spun very quickly forward, turning and jumping as he managed to scratch every tree that he went past. The cutting wasn't what was important because speed was the main focus. Susumu would be able to show off his power in the next technique he was going to learn. Right now his focus was entirely on how fast his body was moving. It wasn't just his arms and hands either, but also his feet and legs.

Time slowed down so that he could get a better look at what he was actually doing. His left foot jumped off the ground, bringing him a great distance in a leap across the snowy ground. As soon as his feet both hit back on the ground he took a few more steps before his right foot then did the same thing. It lifted him into the air and across the ground a good couple of feet. He then came back down upon the ground. When he turned he didn't just turn a few parts of himself, but rather his entire body went with him. His arms didn't just swing around ruthlessly. They were actually going somewhere, planned to do something. Every bit of what Susumu was doing was planned to the very last detail. This was something that a lot of people found difficult and only a few people could really master. It took practice, skill, and, most importantly, intelligence.

This was where speed actually counted for something. Susumu could see the giant tree in the middle of the forest and he wanted to see just exactly how long it'd take him to get from his current position to that tree. Preparing himself, he started by leaping off the ground while going into a body flicker. He got to the tree in no more than half a second. His feet only touched back down against the ground once after he had lifted off. As soon as his feet launched into the air, the body flicker carried Susumu the rest of the distance to the tree where he then sunk the bone in his palm straight through the middle of the tree. The tip of it stuck out the other side. To anybody watching he would've been just a blur and nothing more. He was just a whisper in the wind.