Iron sand training

[Paper Planes]

It's alright, I always keep a back-up post ready
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The shinobi stepped back and leaned against a tree, he was glad that he had finally finished with extending out his polarity field. There wasn’t much to do from now to dinnertime, so Ryozo figured he would spend the rest of his time just relaxing. But after a few minutes, Ryozo had an idea. He got up and walked over to his iron sand gourd, he drew a handful of iron sand from the gourd and walked into the center of the clearing, a small amount of iron sand floating between his hands as he walked.

Ryozo decided to see how far thirty meters actually was, because the whole time he was training he never actually see how far the polarity field could go, he could just feel the length of the polarity field expanding. Ryozo pressed both of his hands onto the iron sand and molded it between his hands without moving. He willed the iron sand to mold and take the form of a small cube. He threw the cube into the air, it flew into an arc in the air and soared outwards towards the forest.

Ryozo shot out his polarity field towards the thirty meter marker, hoping he hadn’t thrown the cube too far. The objective was to catch the cube about thirty meters away, and then bring it back to him. He felt the polarity field stretch out, fifteen, twenty, twenty five meters and such, the cube was going to land at twenty-nine meters, which was pretty convenient. But there was a problem, there always is. The field stopped at the twenty seven marker, Ryozo panicked slightly as the cube sailed towards the ground.

The shinobi quickly pushed the field outwards his chakura again, not wanted to waste a moment. The chakura rammed into the field and pushed it outwards to it’s thirty meter marker just in time, the cube was about to hit the ground. Ryozo stopped the cube inches from the ground, he watched as the cube floated back up and flew gently towards him. Ryozo grabbed the iron sand cube between his hands and smiled, he had panicked there for a second.

[pandoru]

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[Paper Planes]

Douyou Kobushi (Shaking Fist)
Rank: D
Skill: Taijutsu
Effect: Punching out with their palm, the attacker quivers the palm before hitting in order to do more damage
Special: None
Drawback: None
Description: Upon striking the opponent, one makes their fist vibrate slightly before impact to do more damage than a regular punch could do. This punch’s secret is in the vibration causing the internal organs to be vibrated/shocked. They bump around due to the movement and damage is caused.
Limit: Must know Gouken no Kamae.

Ryozo Masamune decided to try and learn some taijutsu moves now, he thought he had been neglecting to train his taijustu. He knew knowing his clan jutsus were important, but he wasn't focusing on training his taijutsu much. So Ryozo decided he would learn a new technique today, it was quite simple compared to most of the techniques he had been learning recently, so Ryozo figured it wouldn't take too long to learn. The shinobi got ready, he made a few handseals and summoned an iron sand clone.

He was going to use the clone as a training dummy for this 'shaking fist' technique. Ryozo walked in front of the target, he closed his eyes and focused his energy (Not chakura) into his hand, he felt his muscles tighten up, his eyes snapped open and Ryozo raised his fist in the air, he aimed his fist straight at the clones head, he tried to shake the fist around a little, like the attack was supposed to be used and threw a punch at the head of the clone. Ryozo felt his hand connect with the head, and an intense pain shot through his arm.

Ryozo almost jumped backwards, but he settled on just taking half a step backwards. He grabbed his hand with his other hand and looked at it, he began to have second thoughts about training on something that was made out of iron sand. The pain subsided to a dull throbbing in his hand after a minute or so, and Ryozo saw it fit to get back to his training again. The shinobi looked at the clone again, who seemed to not like being used as a target dummy. Ryozo wouldn't either, so he dispelled the clone and created a fake clone, one that couldn't move to practice on.

Ryozo focused his hand again, he tried to make it as powerful of a hit as he could, he felt the muscles in his arm tense up. Ryozo held in his breath to better focus, he raised his fist and vibrated it a little, and shot another punch straight at the new target dummy. His fist shot out and made contact with his target's face, he winced in apin as his more pain shot through his hand again, Ryozo thought it might've been broken, until he figured out he could move it again.

His first and second attempts to perform the technique were a little off, Ryozo finally decided he wouldn't harden the dummy, it was just a pile of loose iron sand now that somewhat resembled a human head. Ryozo felt a little odd punching himself in the face. The shinobi focused his energy again into his right arm, he glared determindly at the pile of iron sand that was in front of him, as if it were an opponent or someone he despised. Ryozo shook his fist a little bit and shot his fist out again, aiming his third punch at the black powder.

His fist sailed through the air, it hit the loose pile of iron sand that Ryozo had in front of him and part of the pile that Ryozo was fighting exploded into small iron sand grains. The powder scattererd across the ground, Ryozo looked at the damage he had done to the iron sand. But he knew it didn’t mean anything, the iron sand was so loose he could blow the iron sand off. He looked around for something better, something hard but not so hard that Ryozo would hurt his hand trying.

Ryozo couldn’t think of anything, so he settled with training on a tree. The shinobi walked up to the tree, he closed his eyes and began to ‘charge’ his fist again, ready to try again. He raised his fist and shook it slightly, trying to vibrate it, which was a secret trick to the technique. He shot his fist forward and hit the tree as hard as he could, throwing all his weight behind the punch. The punch hit the tree, there was a loud Crack! noise that came as part of the tree bark fell off of the tree, and landed on the ground.

Ryozo looked down at the bark, then back up at the small hole where the bark used to be He smiled slightly, but this technique didn’t seem to hard anyway so he didn’t congradulate himself too much. He wasn’t done anyway, Ryozo was still going to give it a few more shots, just in case he hadn’t reached the full potential of the technique, and he was sure he hadn’t yet. The shinobi focused his arm again, it was beginning to grow sore from the numerous times he had focused the muscles and tightened up his arm. Ryozo drew his fist back, shook it slightly and threw another punch at the tree.

He was aiming at a different part of the tree this time, after all there was no real point in hitting the same part of the tree as last time after the bark had fallen off. He heard another Crack! and knew he hadn’t messed up or anything like that, his eyes comfirmed this moments later as it watched the bark fall off of the tree and land on the ground, right next to the first part of the tree. Ryozo looked at the tree, he figured he had mastered the technique but just to be safe, he hit it again, quickly this time, instead of charging his fist up because he knew he wouldn’t be able to do that in battle.

The result was good, and Ryozo was satisfied and pretty sure he had mastered the technique. He hit the tree a few more times after that, he wanted to be sure that he was done with the jutsu. The shinobi walked over towards his iron gourd that was laying under a tree, he was finished with that taijutsu technique.

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[colbaltknight]

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[Paper Planes]

Ryozo sat down and began relaxing under the tree, but after a while he got slighlty bored and decided to he would go and practice the technique again. After all he didn’t have anything else to do and he was sure he could to better with the jutsu. Ryozo got up and walked over toe the tree he had been training on previously, and got ready to train. Ryozo quickly raised his fist up in the air, he didn’t have any time to waste in battle, so why should he relax in training?

Quickly, Ryozo brought his fist downwards towards the tree, shaking it slightly to ‘cause his hit to vibrate the tree when he hit it, which was the key to the technique. His fist connected to the tree, and Ryozo could’ve sworn that the tree vibrated slighlty, perhaps it was just him. Ryozo noticed the dent in the tree was a little deeper than the other ones he had made, and Ryozo began to wonder. He focused his fist again and punched the tree again, wanting to know what would happen this time he hit the tree.

His fist made contact with the tree, and it shook slightly, Ryozo now knew he hadn’t imagined it the first time. The dent was a little deeper again, which proved that Ryozo was doing better than before. Ryozo hit the tree again, and this time some leaves came off of the tree and fell down next to Ryozo, which surprised Ryozo slightly. Ryozo decided to stop after this, he was capable of performing the technique now and didn’t want to harm the tree anymore.

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[Axcel]

+3

Learned

[Paper Planes]

• Doton - Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu (Double Suicide Decapitation Technique)
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu / TaiJutsu
Effect: A technique where the user hides within the ground for a brief moment to surprise attack the opponent from under ground.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The user takes the time to push into the ground by using their Earth Release. The user pushes into the ground quickly so that to be used against the opponent later on. The user at this point can not neccessarily move within the ground at this moment, but the user does know by feel of when an opponent is right above. When an opponent is right under the user reaches up to take the opponent and drag them back down to the ground in one fell swoop without movement or notice. The opponent is unable to move for one post and the user is capable of slamming out of the ground with one movement.
Limit: Needs the Earth Release

Ryozo decided he would take a small break from learning all of his clan jutsu’s he wanted to expand his horizon more and learn a few other techniques. He decided on learning a few earth style techniques, after all he was in the stone village. So Ryozo went into the village and got himself a few earth style scrolls, he started on one called Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu. So the shinobi sat down under a tree and began to read the scroll, the jutsu seemed to be simple enough, and Ryozo was pretty sure he could learn this jutsu without too much of a problem. So Ryozo got up and walked over to the middle of the clearing where he trained, and got ready. At the beginning, Ryozo focused his chakura and spread it into the ground in front of him.

Then, Ryozo closed his eyes and focused his chakura even more, he tried to spread it into the ground right under him, after all that’s where he was going to go. After a few more seconds, Ryozo tried to push himself into the ground by utilizing the earth release that he had learned. The results were mixed, they weren’t perfect or even great at that, but it was Ryozo’s first try so it wasn’t bad. The shinobi almost jumped when his feet gave out under him, but then he realized he couldn’t. A little confused, Ryozo looked down under him and noticed that his feet were under the ground, and Ryozo couldn’t really move them around. So for a minute, Ryozo stood, his feet in the ground, waiting for the jutsu to wear off.

And in time it did, and Ryozo was able to pull himself out from the ground. He shook his hands a little bit, and then his feet. Not wanting to waste anymore time, Ryozo began to focus his chakura again, ready to go for a second attempt at the jutus. Ryozo focused his chakura again and tried to push himself directly into the ground, this attempt didn’t turn out any better than his first attempt. Once again, Ryozo found himself feet deep in earth. This time though, Ryozo didn’t feel like waiting for the jutsu to end. He pulled his legs forcefully out of the ground and got ready to try again. He pressed his chakura into the ground and got ready for take: 3.

Ryozo focused up his chakura and used it to push himself into the ground, this time the jutsu worked a little better than before. He felt his legs move into the earth, and then a little more. For a brief moment Ryozo thought he was going to be able to do it, but he stopped suddenly and looked down. He was ‘knee deep’ (No pun intended) in the earth. Ryozo figured he wasn’t going to be able to just ‘yank’ himself out of the ground this time, and took advantage of this moment to practice the other part of the justu. He focused his chakura a little more and used it to push himself upwards; trying to get out of the earth he was stuck in.

Ryozo felt himself begging to move upwards, and managed to move up somewhat before being stuck again. Ryozo managed to pull himself out of the earth from there; he looked at his pants, which were covered in dirt now. Ryozo didn’t care much, he was doing fine and a little dirt never bothered him. The shinobi focused his chakura again, ready to try again. He pushed himself into the ground now, getting used to the odd feeling of burrowing himself into the ground. This time, he found himself knee deep again in dirt, Ryozo focused his chakura again and tried to push himself deeper into the ground, he wasn’t going to get better by not trying.

This idea that Ryozo implemented seemed to work nicely, because he was already knew deep in the earth just by pushing more chakura into the ground when he was already in it. Ryozo felt himself move deeper into the earth, and soon his waist was under the ground as well. Ryozo thought he looked a bit odd, after all only half of his body was above the ground. Ryozo re-focused his chakura and had it push himself upwards, so he was back on his two feet again. It took his two tries to get himself back up, and then Ryozo was ready to go again. He focused his chakura again, and Ryozo pushed himself back into the ground, wondering how far he’d get this time.

This time was a lot better than his other attempts, in one shot Ryozo felt himself sink into the ground; he continued to push more chakura through into the ground as he continued to fall through the ground. This time the shinobi fell and stopped until he was a little more than halfway under the ground, halfway up his stomach. Ryozo then re-focused all his chakura and shot himself back up towards normal ground, he was really getting the hand off all this stuff. Ryozo was almost done; he was so close to mastering the jutsu.

So the shinobi focused again and shot himself back into the ground, he managed to get a little deeper this time. Then Ryozo got back up, he went back under again, he was about up to his chest in earth. It was kind of interesting, and Ryozo knew he was almost done. On his next attempt Ryozo managed to get up to his neck (No, it’s not supposed to be a joke! >.<) in earth. Finally, on his next attempt after that Ryozo managed to sink his entire head under the ground. He couldn’t see anything, but something told him that there was a squirrel right above him. Ryozo shot himself back up, and noticed the squirrel running away, scared out of its mind.

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[Tieren]

Learned

[Paper Planes]

• Doton - Dochuu Eigyo (Underground Fish Projection)
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: By using the similarity of Doton - Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu (Double Suicide Decapitation Technique) the user is capable of moving through the earth and all around.
Special: "Handseals" before performing
Drawback: Can not be used through Sand
Description: The user uses the basic Doton - Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu (Double Suicide Decapitation Technique) as they slam down into the ground. Doing so the user is capable of moving about within the ground capable of rising, singing and capable of pushing through the very ground in multiple types of ways. This type of attack may be used so then the user may move away from the very opponent and attack at the moment's notice.
Limit: Needs the Earth Release, Must have knowledge of the Doton - Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu (Double Suicide Decapitation Technique)

After that jutsu had been learned, Ryozo decided to go for the next version of that jutsu, the more advanced one. Ryozo thought this one was going to be very useful. So without wanting to waster anymore time dwindling on thoughts, Ryozo walked over back to the clearing where he always trained, and got ready to learn the Dochuu Eigyo jutsu. Ryozo stretched a little bit and got ready to practice the jutsu. This time Ryozo had to perform handseals, which was different from the jutsu he had leaned before. Ryozo threw the handseals together, quickly. He pushed himself into the ground like he did before.

Now Ryozo was successfully in the ground, but he already knew how to do that. Now he was going to have to try and move around in the ground. The handseals that Ryozo had performed earlier that Ryozo had never seen, or least never noticed in his jutsu’s before. The handsigns seemed to have unlocked something, something that now enabled him to move. Ryozo tried to push out with his chakura and move, but it didn’t work. The earth acted as a barrier to him moving, and he just couldn’t bring up enough chakura to move the ground he was in. Ryozo continued to push outwards with the chakura, but nothing happened.

Ryozo continued his seemingly useless attempts to make the earth that was all around him to move, and after a bit Ryozo got tired of it and brought himself back above ground, he would return in a seconds however, to try again. After a brief moment Ryozo took a deep breath, and then plunged himself back into the earth, he felt himself fall back into the pitch blackness of the underground, and got ready to try again at moving himself around under the earth. Ryozo focused out his chakura and started to try and move himself through the ground.

Once again though, Ryozo had himself being blocked by the thick wall of earth all around him, he couldn’t seem to make his way through the earth as easily as he could get through it. But Ryozo continued his vain attempts to push through the earth. After a minute or so, Ryozo finally gave up for now and resurfaced. He took another short pause to catch his breath before heading back into the dirt. Ryozo focused and got ready to try again. He pushed his chakura out towards the earth, focusing as hard as he could to move the earth around him.

This time though, Ryozo noticed a change in his training. He could feel the dirt slowly beginning to shift around him, and slowly Ryozo noticed that he was finally getting somewhere with the technique. However Ryozo barely went a few inches when the earth stopped shifting, and Ryozo barely moved. The shinobi closed his eyes and focused even more, he repeated the handseals needed in the ground and continued to press out his chakura, trying to make the ground under him move. Slowly and slowly, Ryozo inched his way through the thick earth.

He stopped after he had moved about a foot in a half, Ryozo resurfaced from the ground and looked at the point where he had started to where he was now. He had moved about two footsteps, but still it was a lot better than he did before. So Ryozo took another breather before he performed the handseals and shot himself back into the ground, ready to try again. Ryozo felt his body plunge back into the blackness that was the underground again, Now that he was underground again, Ryozo focused his chakura and started again to try and move himself.

Slowly Ryozo moved through the thick earth as he continued his training. He pushed himself through the thick earth, Ryozo made it about a good two feet before he had to go back above the surface and stop for a bit. Ryozo paused for a bit, he got ready to back into the ground again. Ryozo performed a few handseals again and shot himself back into the ground, ready to go again. He began to move under the ground again, slightly frustrated with the fact that he was barely moving. Still, Ryozo continued to push through the earth.

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[Itzu]

+6.

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