The irredeemable jellyman (private pm for invite)

[Kinz]

Chakura Kyuin Jutsu (Chakra Absorption Technique)
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The user is capable of draining a small piece of the opponent's chakra by pushing their arm off, making sure that they are close to the opponent.
Special: ---
Drawback: The user must have some sort of ground, or must be within close range of the opponent. What this means is that they must be at least couple of feet from the opponent in a maximum range, or they must have hold of something that is pure chakra such as chakra strings.
Description: The user focuses their own chakra within their body and pushes it towards their very hands. As the user does so they create a somewhat "vacuum" like effect within their own chakra along the palm of their hands. What this occurs is when the user grows close to the opponent and does a punching like motion the opponent will feel a small amount of chakra escape from their very own body and be used towards the user's own special like force. This can be used to further the strength of the user with their own chakra supply.
Limit: Anyone is capable of learning this technique.

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Muteki was like a caged lion as he paced back and forth around the boat. It was as if his excitement to be rid of his fear was giving hi untold amounts of energy. He could hardly resist the urge to jump off the side of the boat and swim the rest of the way to shore. Muteki had been told they had officially crossed into earth countries waters, and far off on the horizon he could see the coast in all its glory. But to his dismay they were still a few hours from actually docking the ship. The water was quite choppy and they had the wind against them. Muteki didn’t want to expose hi ninja prowess. Just having all of the weapons he was carrying around with him was to conspicuous for his liking. He wanted to have the element of surprise. It was a useful weapon and one who possessed it generally had a higher survival rate during encounters.

Waiting was beginning to kill him from the inside out. He needed to really pull his mind from the journey and concentrate on something else. A watch pot never boiled. He began thinking about something else by pecking through his scrolls he had in his possession. One of the techniques he came across was called the chakra absorption technique. Apparently it allowed the user to siphon the chakra out of someone else and put it into themselves. It was like a little chakra vacuum. He saw many possibilities with this technique. There were so many avenues to explore with a technique like this.

He began reasoning out how it worked. From the scroll, all the user needed do was coat their hand in chakra and then touch another persons body. It seemed simple enough. Perhaps the reason it was classified as a c rank was because of its power and not so much its difficulty. His optimism was quickly quelled however with his first test. Forming chakra around the palm of his right hand, Muteki stood behind a corner inside the bowels of the ship, waiting for someone to come down the hallway. His patients were finally rewarded when he noticed one of the lower ranked crewmen coming down the long passage.

The man coming down the hallway in his white sailors suit and a blue ascot was totally unaware of Muteki’s presence as he came to the end of the hallway and Muteki’s arms reached out and grappled him from behind. One hand held over his mouth, the other against his shoulder with the chakra trying to siphon his miniscule amount out of his body. After a few minutes of the man struggling, he seemed to stop. Muteki released him gently but he hadn’t stopped struggling because Muteki’s technique had tired him out, he had realized what was going on. The sailor turned on Muteki and said, “If you wanted to be the big spoon all you had to do was ask.” The man’s voice was deep, and lustful, and with that Muteki ran for his life.

After the incident, Muteki spent the rest of the trip till they reached the dock in a transformation of an old women. Nobody questioned it, and when he departed he could still see the odd sailor looking for his would be hunter turned prey. Muteki had to suppress the urge to vomit. He had done the technique incorrectly somehow, and now he would have bad dreams about it forever. Perhaps he should put more practice into it.

[Kinz]

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After his little excursion on the boat, Muteki was determined to try finding a way to learn this technique without ever touching a sailor again. His hand came to his sight and once more he formed chakra around his palm. Though he could not see the mystical energy, he could sense his own. It fluttered and flowed around his hand. It wasn’t the anything different then normal. It looked a lot like the water release due to his extensive work with that element, but for all intents and purposes it was normal chakra.

Perhaps its normalcy was the problem. Chakra was fuel for other techniques, but when it came to techniques comprised solely of the substance it had to take on its own form. Right now it wasn’t doing anything different then lying dormant. Perhaps if he molded it a certain way, a shape used in directing things into a specific direction. His mind wondered back to the water. When one wanted water to flow into a small opening, they used a funnel. Perhaps the funnel shape was a key. Muteki began focusing on the dormant chakra in his hand and tried manifesting it in his palm into the shape of a funnel, starting wide at its furthest point from his hand, and then narrowing as it came closer to the source. This would give the chakra a very nice pathway to flow into Muteki’s body through.

Finding a small bug nearby he began trying his newly formed chakra shape on it to attempt to funnel the chakra from the tiny creature. Nothing happened. Perhaps there was something he was missing. He felt confident that the idea with the funnel was a good one, but there was one puzzle piece he had not brought to light, actually pulling the chakra into the funnel shape. Perhaps more chakra control was needed. He began thinking more about how things were pulled into something. His mind slowly began floating back towards the ocean. When something called a whirlpool was formed it generally pulled things down to the bottom of the sea with its strength. He thought on the matter and came to the conclusion that the circular, spiral motion pulled things into the hole. Perhaps that was the key.

He had chakra in his hand in the shape of a funnel once more. He began focusing on it once more, using every once of effort he had to pull and push against its to make the sides spin. It was a long and taxing experience. Finally he saw motion. His chakra control was at its limit. Granted he had many ninjutsu techniques, but they were all based on releasing mass amounts of chakra in a quick burst, not controlling it to any degree. He was perspiring profusely. He would be unable to handle much more of this. In his hand he held what could only be called a mini chakra whirlpool, that he hoped would allow him to pull the chakra of another being into himself.

Reaching his hand out, Muteki placed the spiraling funnel over the bug, who immediately collapsed. He felt no different then usual, but perhaps it was because of the bugs limited amount of chakra. He had a good feeling about his progress with this new technique.

[//Talo//]

0_0 Creepy sailor...

Learned >>

[Kinz]

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

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Muteki had finally finished his training in the chakra absorption technique, and was making progress over the land of earth. In all honesty he could have been moving faster, and he would never admit this but he knew his fear of the encounter he was headed towards was holding him back. As such, he would begin taking frequent breaks and stopping regularly. He also took to setting up camp particularly early. With all this extra time he was creating for himself, he was steadily learning more and more techniques. His next goal was learning a weak, yet very fast attack technique. Something he could use to keep the enemy on its toes.

After scanning the scrolls he had in his possession, he came to the conclusion that he would learn a jutsu to go with his hair techniques. This technique he found would cause little damage, but it would be a good wake up call type of attack. Now he needed to figure out how it was done. He needed to focus his chakra into his hair and force a few strands to stand erect for a time, and then fire them forward towards an intended target. That would be a problem at this juncture because other then manipulating its general growth, Muteki had learned no other hair jutsu. His mind thought over the process of stiffening his hair, and decided he just needed to force his chakra into his hair strands.

Flowing chakra over the entire scalp, he picked out a hair at random and began focusing on it intently. His chakra poured into the strand, and he attempted to stiffen it. It wasn’t a very difficult process, but now he needed to add in other strands to make it something that would be thick enough to do any damage. Grabbing the three closest strands he forced them together with his chakra, and quite easily a very sturdy, almost senbon like creation was formed. At the moment Muteki looked ridiculous. He would appear to have a cowlick sticking out of his scalp. The small, thin, strong structure of hair stuck straight up in the air. Perfect formation.

Now that he could perform the process of making one needle, he needed to make more. He continued running his chakra through his hair, allowing it to flow into every strand. He began folding individual strands over and over again, trying to form them into a very similar construct as the one he had made before. The strands stuck out straight, ten in all. Holding strong against the wind. Now he needed target practice. Focusing his mind, he set to work.

At first it would seem as if the strands had a mind of their own. Whenever he tried firing them, they sprayed in all different directions. It took quiet the effort to learn to direct them to his intended location. He began by aiming at a nearby rock. After a mere moments, his chakra control finally pulled the strands to his will forcing them to head in a straight path towards the rock. His intended target was struck. He had made the hair follow his will and was ready to finish and go to sleep for the night.

[Axcel]

Learned.

[Zetsumei]

+10

Dial up creates Ninjas >.<

[Kinz]

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

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The land of earth was one of great oddity to him. There were generally few fields, lakes, or other landmarks of beauty over their harsh landscape, but for some reason the peaceful solitude of mountain life was calming. Granted, he was not very high into their mountainous land, so perhaps their snowy peaks held more of what he was accustomed to, but he was quite content with his current location. His feet clicked against the rough stone walkway as he made his way forward in the land of earth. He was searching for his goal. He knew where the stone village happened to lay, but with the sound of an explosion of in the far distance towards the direction of where the gate was he was quite content to procrastinate and perhaps continue his training.

The landscape had inspired him. He had never been one to really use much other then the water release and his bloodlimit, but with his recent change of location, he had begun wondering about other releases. Besides the water release, wind release and sound release which were the most predominate ones in his arsenal, he had acquired the lightning and earth release. Though powerful as he knew the lightning release to be, he had never really been one for electricity. Much like how he disliked fire, lightning just didn’t fit him. As his mind reflected upon these issues, it kept wondering back towards the earth release. One he had neglected. Perhaps now was the time to train such a group of techniques. In his brief stint as kage he had access to many technique tutorial scrolls, most of which he did little with. He did however remember two of them. The first being the precursor to the second.

Thoughts of the technique rattled in his head. His determination was set. He would learn the technique, to avoid meeting with his intended objective. Sitting on the side of the path he had been following, and setting his bag beside him, Muteki began his training. He needed to understand how to phase into the soil like the technique described. His mind pondered the objective. Well, how did water go through the soil? He had the most experience with water so he took it as his example. It just seeped in through the gaps in the soil.

There was a problem with him likening himself to water though. He was bigger and usually more dense then the liquid. This conundrum perplexed him. Perhaps he was thinking about it wrong. The main difference between the earth and water releases were that the water released flowed through and around things. Earth was different. It was the embodiment of willpower and stubbornness. Perhaps if he focused earth release into the ground below him, it would begin to give way to him, allowing him to sink beneath the surface. It was a solid plan, but perhaps one a little to simple even for this technique.

Even with his trepidation, Muteki began his experimentation. His chakra seeped into the soil directly beneath his feet, making the hard earth rich with energy. If he didn’t know better he’d expect it to become a mud like substance and pull him under that way, but it did nothing. He had to disillusion himself from the thoughts of this being water, he needed to realize he needed to move the earth not phase through it. His chakra began pushing into the soil harder then before. He was attempting to open a type of tunnel and then close it around him. Slowly but surely his legs began to sink below the surface. Was he doing the technique correctly? It would appear so as his legs slowly became enveloped by earth.

[zuka]

+10

I need to revamp Taki aso you can't hax us.

[Kinz]

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)

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Muteki’s legs sunk into the soil, and as the rest of him followed the scenery began to fade to black. The coarse brown earth settled in around him as he tried to think of what the next step in the training was. He knew the previous technique was merely a precursor to the one he now was working on. For the next technique he would need to expand upon it to be able to move himself sideways, up and down, and diagonally. This is the technique that would give him such a broader range of motion, and actually make this technique fairly useful.

There was a hitch in his idea however. Before he could continue on and master motion with this technique, he needed to figure out a way to stay alive under here. He had neglected to realize the dangers of being underground like this. It was true his chakra was keeping him safe from being crushed, mainly because it was keeping the dirt around him at bay, but it wasn’t leaving any kind of opening behind. This was where the problem stemmed from. Because he had no connection to the surface, he had no way of getting oxygen. He hadn’t realized this predicament till just now.

His senses were growing dimmer. His eyes began fading to black. He wasn’t going to be able to make it to the surface fast enough to survive. It was a shame. His body could breath air, it could breath water, but the one thing he couldn’t breath was nothingness. There was nothing for him to do. He had made a crucial mistake of not predicting possible failure, and he was now going to pay for it. He began to go unconscious as his eyes faded to black. The last thing he saw was the bits of earth resting against him not held back by the chakra. The dark brown soil burying him.

After mere moments, with his eyes still closed he realized that in fact….he wasn’t dead? Why. Then his body figured it out for him. Underneath the soil the earth retained water. His body could breath water, and as the soil lay against his skin, he must have been absorbing it. He could feel the life giving water replenishing him. It permeated his skin. He was alive. At least for the time being. How did non water breathers like those of the earth village use this technique without dying? He began pondering this. His mind began wrapping itself around a solution.

When under the earth he was incased in a dome-like creation of chakra to keep the earth from himself. Perhaps if he focused more he could run an airline to the surface, to allow oxygen to come in and still have him get the benefit of not touching the soil. It was feasible and though it took a fair amount of chakra control, it proved effective. He was able to create a small tube like creation to the surface to allow him to get air to himself underground.

[Tenkai]

+10
`10.20]

[Kinz]

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)

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Now that Muteki had some semblance of a life support system setup for himself, he needed to get back to his initial goal of a better range of motion through the earth. As he laid beneath the soil though he couldn’t help but notice an odd effect that happened to occur. He was surrounded by darkness underground, so naturally he could not see, but there was another sense added to his arsenal instead. It felt vaguely familiar to his sonar technique. He couldn’t see anything, but he could ‘feel’ the vibration of things touching the ground. He could sense the squirrel on the surface

Muteki’s mind worked around the new sense. It seemed a very useful ability down here. To know everything going on underground and at the surface without ever having to peek your head up. There were some flaws to this however. There was no distinction in the picture. He couldn’t tell if it was really a squirrel or not, he just new it was a tiny four legged animal. The other weakness to this ‘sight’ was that he could not see anything not connected to the ground. So as soon as something got airborne he was out of luck. Well, these weaknesses were accounted for at least, and knowing your techniques weaknesses was the first step in counteracting them.

But back to work. His mind pondered how to move through the soil. He tried using his normal muscles to do it, but they had no chance of making any kind of efficient movement. Sure with the dirt somewhat away from him they could swing slightly, but overall he would just be digging, which was for all intents and purposes useless for this endeavor. It had to be something to do with chakra. How did the double suicide decapitation work? He was able to use his chakra to push the dirt aside and then pull it back to its normal position once he was past. And to move up he just piled dirt under himself. that’s it!

Perhaps if he piled the dirt on the opposite side of where he wanted to go, it would build up and push him in the direction he wanted to go. It was an idea that he decided to experiment with. He allowed the earth release to flow from himself and into the surrounding soil. The earth began shifting around him and forming to his left. As it increased it began to push him further towards the right. It seemed his idea about the soil was a good one.

It started slow, but as he continued his practice with the technique his speed at performing it increased. Soon he was swimming through the earth just as well as the water. His body flowing the moist earth. Eventually he forced himself towards the surface and flew out of the ground like a dolphin coming out of the sea. It would appear he had figured out the bulk of this technique. Picking up his bag he began trying to think of something else to train.

[zuka]

Learned.

[Kinz]

Suiton: Ichuumizu no Jutsu (Moving Water Technique)
Rank: “A”
Type: Ninjutsu
Effect: Prevents ice from solidifying around a person’s body.
Special: Tiger, Rat, Dragon, Horse, Dragon, Rat, Tiger
Description: The user coats his/herself in chakra that instantly turns any ice the chakra comes into contact with into flowing water. This technique is normally used when fighting against Ice ninjas or for preventing someone from falling victim to the Mizu Fubuki no Jutsu.
Limit: A Forbidden technique known only to the leader of the Hidden Village of Waterfall.

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Muteki hadn’t heard any commosion from the direction of the earth gate in quite some time, but he was still unwilling to enter and be thought of as a possibly hostile interloper. That coupled with the fact he had no real want to confront his fear of hand mouths made him continue training for the time being. He new he was beginning to run short on supplies, but with what he had, combined with what was around the area he would have sufficient stock for his needs. He decided to set camp.

The clearing he had chosen was not far from the road, and aside from the few leaves spread out about the place that no doubt fell from the sole tree in existence in this rugged land, it was rather cozy. In an attempt to hold off his infinite boardum, Muteki reached into his pack to find something to train. Anything was better then just sitting around doing nothing. His hands grasped around the one scroll he had with any techniques he wished to learn. It was the waterfall villages secret scrolls.

Muteki sat there unrolling and replacing each of the highly valued pieces of parchment. He had only learned one technique from these scrolls since acquiring them with Nyzu, who still had his rain village scrolls in exchange for these. He would need to trade him back eventually. The Rain scrolls had some sentimental value to him still, even if he was no longer Amekage. But that would be something to do for the future. Muteki and Nyzu had parted ways in the thunder country after having begun preparations for a friendly infiltration of their village. Those plans fell through though with his abandonment, and with that he was left to train. He knew one day their paths would cross once more, little did he know how close the two of them were.

He continued flipping through the scrolls till he found a very powerful technique. It was an A class difficulty, which meant that for the next few days he would be devoting his every moment to it. It also meant a few day reprieve from having to confront his acquaintance from the chunnin exams. The girl with the odd hands. Muteki continued his relaxing sit, every so often adjusting himself so his bottom was slightly more comfortable against the hard packed earth.

It was a wonder he didn’t fear being caught by any ninja with this scroll out. Perhaps it was his immortal complex making him so careless. Or perhaps he just knew that by this time if nobody had caught up with him for his evil deeds, then nobody was really looking. His eyes continued to ponder the scroll as he sat there in the solemn landscape, the only other living thing being the single tree nearby.

[Kinz]

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Muteki finished reading over the scroll in the slightly sad solitude. He was at a complete loss for words. This technique, though rendering an entire element of ninjutsu futile against him, was seemingly the hardest technique he had ever thought to try. He usually occupied his time with weaker techniques that were much more efficient to learn, but this technique seemed worth gaining so he decided he would begin trying. Hopefully his efforts would prove fruitful.

After reading the hand seal requirements, he began trying to use them. His hands were accustom to ninjutsu after many ninjutsu techniques being implanted in his arsenal. Tiger, rat, dragon, horse, and then reverse. His mind made an acronym to help him remember their order. Apparently he was a poet and didn’t know it. He smiled at himself after thinking of such a stupid pun, but his smile faded as he realized just how much work he had left to do. Though he knew the hand seals and how to perform them, he had no idea what they were meant to do.

Of course he had used them in other techniques, but each combination made different results. He would need to analyze each and then after he understood them each individually he would need to put them together and see the results. This would hopefully be a short experience, but Muteki knew better then to think time mattered at all in training. Each person learned things at their own speed, and you never knew exactly what surprises awaited you in each training.

With this thought implanted in his head, he stood and decided that if he really wanted to train these hand seals effectively he needed to at least find a more comfortable seat then the ground. He looked around the desolate landscape and finally noticed a small boulder over a little further from the road. He meandered to it and again set his belongings down next to it. Then removing his vest to expose his bare chest to the cool wind he folded it and set it on the rock for a cushion.

After finally getting a little more comfortable, Muteki breathed in a deep breath and then sighed. Now more procrastination. That would be his motto for this training. He took a glance at the sun and found that it was nearly noon. He would master the understanding of these hand seals before nightfall, and then he would finish it tomorrow. Perhaps implanting a schedule for himself would keep himself on track. With that he set to work.

[Kinz]

(post three)
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Muteki sat there and took in a deep breath, exhaling it with a sigh. He hated when training required actual thought. It was one thing that ruined the whole experience of getting stronger. When you think, things become boring. His hands formed together into that of the tiger hand seal. He began focusing his chakra through it and trying to understand why it was placed in this hand seal sequence. His chakra flowed like water into the hand seal, and he tried to analyze the effects.

As his chakra flowed he noticed it change. He expected this. Hand seals were meant to help one focus their chakra in various ways, each hand seal combination being different because each technique required slightly different hand seal combinations. He had always thought of hand seals as notes in music. He wasn’t much of a musician himself, but it seemed an appropriate analogy. This one seemed almost like a very low note. It didn’t really stand out or anything, but it seemed to give the song, or in this case the technique, a kind of power.

Perhaps that was what this hand seals purpose was. Perhaps it was meant to be used in exerting more chakra into the technique. It seemed plausible. This was an A ranked technique, so it would be easy enough to assume it wasted a lot of your chakra. While his mind wrapped itself around this, he nearly forgot about the fact that he would need to use the same seal once again at the very end of the technique. Apparently this technique required nearly two of everything. So if the tiger was the power of the technique, where was the control?

Muteki really wasn’t one for such outside of the box thought. He really wasn’t one for any kind of thought. He worked off of instinct most of the time, but something about this technique made him wary. He remembered the last technique he had learned from the waterfall scroll. If he hadn’t figured out about the ice freezing before hand, he would have become a Muteki-popsicle. Hopefully this technique was less dangerous, but who could know? It wasn’t always that a technique was difficult that made them be classified as A rank.

The sun sunk lower on the horizon, slowly moving closer to Muteki being off schedule. He needed to keep up his pacing and stop worrying. If something bad was to happen he would deal with it when that time arose. His hands continued working, trying to make up for lost time so that his procrastination would not get the better of him.

[Kinz]

(fourth post)
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Muteki sat beside his small campfire eating the scrawny dish he called a meal. He kept the fire small merely because he was not cold and had never been the biggest fan of fire. The little stew made of dried meat and roots he found was filling, but far from satisfying, and the only decent food in walking distance was at the place he most dreaded going to, the stone village. Though that was his destination, he was quite content to take as much time as he needed to get there.

He finished the bowl of food and tossed it next to the fire which he began to kick some of the plentiful dirt in the area on, then returning back to his less then comfortable seating arrangement, Muteki continued his training. He had gained a basic understanding of the tiger hand seals part in this technique, perhaps the next hand seal would be slightly easier to understand. His next hand seal was supposed to be the rat. So forming his hands in the shape of the rat hand seal, Muteki began to release some of his chakra to test this hand seals function within the technique.

As his chakra poured into it he noticed how it began to take shape. He didn’t quite differentiate between what it was doing. At first it just seemed like the chakra was stagnate and unmoving. Like a pond of water on a windless day. It took him quite a while before he noticed what was really happening. It wasn’t so much the chakra wasn’t doing anything, it was more the chakra was waiting on him to will it to where he wanted.

Much like the name implies apparently the rat hand seal is as mobile as its namesake. The seal allows one to mold their chakra to various parts of their body apparently. This was probably how the technique worked. The rat hand seal moved the combination of abilities the other hand seals provided to various parts of the body, allowing them to take effect. Muteki decided this was worth experimenting with. So continuing to pour chakra into the hand seal, Muteki began focusing on moving the chakra around his body.

At first the chakra moved from his hands to his shoulders, and then he moved it to his chest. From his chest he sent it back up to his head, and then backwards through the chest to the legs, all the way down to his feet. It moved with the greatest of ease throughout him. Finally resting his hands and his chakra system, he took a short break.

[zuka]

*Glances at technique*

*Looks at limit*

Ihatechu.

+40

[Kinz]

(fifth post)
40/100

After his successful test with the rat hand seal, Muteki was ready to move on. He now knew that the tiger hand seal was meant to enhance the strength of the chakra so it would be powerful enough to ward off the most strengthened ice techniques. Then the rat hand seal was meant to direct that power to the outer area of his skin. Apparently the rat hand seal was the one to navigate the vast channels that make up the chakra system. Now he needed to deduce the purpose of the dragon and the horse symbol and he would be all set.

So, first things first, what was the point of the dragon symbol? Muteki had seen the dragon seal used many times when it came to forming water style techniques. Perhaps that was the point. Muteki’s hands formed the dragon seal and began pouring normal chakra into it. He had known that the dragon hand seal was a staple in water techniques, but he had never really analyzed why. He found out fairly quickly.

As his chakra flowed into the dragon seal, Muteki notice that it was no longer the same. He thought at first that he had done something wrong. Perhaps he had lost focus a moment, so he allowed himself to reabsorb the chakra and then try again, but low and behold the same result. This was a curious predicament. Every time his chakra flowed into the dragon seal it changed from just plain old ordinary chakra to water release. He was kind of confused.

Whenever Muteki had tried to do a water technique before he had always started with his water release chakra. He had never really noticed that the dragon seal had done nothing. Apparently his new logical style of training was yielding some results. He was just realizing, even with all his capability in the water release, that the dragon seal was kind of the water elements base. It was like a scale for the water element to use, at least if he were to return to his musical references. But why was it in the middle of the string? Why wouldn’t the dragon seal be started with?

Muteki continued thinking for a moment, but after a short period he realized he was ruining his train of thought. He still needed to figure out the horse seals purpose, then he would put them all together and figure it out that way. He had eaten an early dinner, so there was still a fair amount of time till he would sleep. He wanted to try keeping himself on this schedule. It was the only way for him to know he wasn’t just trying to avoid his meeting with his destiny in Stone Village.

[Kinz]

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As Muteki’s revelations on the dragon hand seal began to unravel themselves, he knew he had to press on. The daylight wasn’t going to wait for him forever. He needed to concentrate on the next hand seal in the line so he could keep himself on track. He quickly stood up to refold his vest beneath him so he could regain some semblance of comfort and set back to training once more, with the sun sinking ever lower on the horizon.

The next and last new hand seal in the line was the horse hand seal. It wasn’t one that was very prevalent in most water techniques, but he had seen it used before. It wasn’t so much using it, any academy student could do that. He needed to analyze it. What was its purpose? He had already established the other three individual hand seals, he needed to press onward with the final piece of the puzzle. What was the essence of the horse hand seal was the big question.

His chakra flowed into the single set of finger combinations that was this hand seal, and he was surprised at what he found. It was something he found very difficult to describe to himself, let alone someone else. The horse hand seal created…well, the only word Muteki had come to mind was a void. As he poured chakra into the seal it felt as if it was growing ever hungrier. It wasn’t like he was loosing any chakra, far from it. It was as if the seal was just constantly absorbing it.

Looking curiously at his hands he stopped the flow of his chakra into the seal. His right hand went to his chin as he curled his right knee for his elbow to rest on, and his left hand fell to his side. His right hands fingers danced on his chin, stroking it as he thought. What would be the purpose of such a seal? It was like dumping water into an empty bucket. This thought about the bucket actually sparked a thought in his head. Buckets were sometimes used for storing water, perhaps that was this seals purpose? It was meant to hold chakra for the technique?

Now the only question he had left to answer was why and how. He had analyzed each hand seal, now he needed to put that information together to form the idea for his technique. The sun was sitting just slightly above the far off mountain range, he had little time if he wanted to keep himself on track. Setting to work took him mere moments.

[Kinz]

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Muteki sat uncomfortably on the small boulder, his leg muscle locking themselves up long ago. The sun was fading quickly trying to escape him for the day, leaving Muteki wit only a few mere moments to understand the flow of chakra in this technique. He had the parts figured out, now he needed to put them together, and figure out how they functioned as a whole. Each individual one was odd in its own way, but they would all be needed to create the technique he was trying to figure out.

He decided to start by remembering what he knew. He knew that the tiger seal apparently was used to increase the flow of chakra, making the technique more powerful overall. Then the rat hand seal would be used to help the chakra flow through the body, and the dragon seal would be used to turn the chakra into water release all summing into the horse hand seal which would store it….but how did it get released? After the horse hand seal he just repeated the first three in reverse order. How did he get the chakra to coat him?

He began thinking deeply while he tried to arrange his campsite a little better for the night. He had neglected it while he tried to do all of his training. His hands placed things in the spots, and arranged his small makeshift tent, but the whole time he was thinking of what he needed to do to figure out this technique. After all that work was finished, at least to the best that his lack of focus allowed, Muteki was ready to continue where he had left off.

With all the thinking he had done he came to the conclusion that a test was the best way to figure this technique out. So, forming the initial tiger seal he poured water release into it. Then quickly shifting to the rat hand seal he focused the chakra towards his chest. When he came to the dragon hand seal he formed it, but it did relatively nothing. He had started out using water release because of the dragon hand seal anyway. He thought of the dragon as an indicator to say use the water release, and less so of an ingredient for the technique.

Finally he formed the horse hand seal and forced all of the water release into it. At least he understood the horse hand seal a little better. His analogy of it being like a bucket was head on. Apparently the chakra formed from the first three hand seals was meant to be built up in here. With this slightly better understanding Muteki finished the last three hand seals, those being the reverse of the first three, and waited for the result.