[Training] Katon - Housenka no Jutsu {Done}

[hotoka]

Katon - Housenka no Jutsu (Mythical Fire Phoenix Technique)
Skill: Ninjutsu
Rank: C Rank
Description: This is a Ninjutsu technique utilizing the Fire Element. The ninja does the necessary hand seals and then emits a series of small fire balls. The ninja can also hurl a projectile which is covered in these same flames. To the opponent the attack appears to be only the balls of flame, they do not see the hidden threat within the flames. Meaning that even if the flames are put out, the projectiles can still converge on the target. The flames can be used to cover different projectiles like shuriken or kunai.
Limits: Elemental to Katon; small projectiles only.
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After just learning his new technique Hotoka already found another one he wanted to learn. This time one from the fire element. This is going to be so cool. And with a big grin Hotoka went to his usual trainingspot. Hmm, how should i train myself in this? I think its just shooting but there probably is something more to it. Do i know somebody who knows the fire element.. Nope (^.^') I'll just have to figure out on my own.. So Hotoka started, he preformed the needed handseals and tries to shoot fire out of his mouth just like with the Teppodama but nothing happened. Maybe its like the Raikyuu then And Hotoka started again, Preforming the handseals and holding his palms out, trying to shoot fireballs. But again nothing happened. What am i doing wrong? He kept thinking.. Offcourse, it could also be that because it's a C-rank jutsu that it takes more time to get effect. It would make sense And he kept trying the technique, each time swapping between shooting from his mouth and his hands. Finaly, he saw some little flames when he tried it again with his mouth. (Nothing impressive, just a flame a match could form.) However, he now knew how to release it and kept trying it that way. After an hour of trying he finaly saw the flame become a little bigger. He kept trying and trying to get more flames because he knew there should be several flames.

He took a little break and had some food, a little nap and continued training again. He tried almost everything he could think of in order to get more flames, even bending his tongue in weird positions and releasing the chakra in several blows, but it didnt seemed to work. Maybe it was just like the first time, alot of training. And he kept trying. After a while it looked like he got a few more flames and was wondering what these flames were capible of. So he went to the nearest tree in order to set it on fire.. I wonder what the kage would say if i kept burning the trees of this forest. [glow=red,2,300]Katon - Housenka no Jutsu[/glow] He shouted, made the required handseals and blew the flames towards the tree. A just a few flames actually hit the tree as others just dissapeared before even hitting. The flames hitting the tree didnt had much of an effect either, leaving 1 maybe 2 small burnmarkes. Hmm, this is alot harder than the Raikyuu.. So he kept trying and trying and after a while the flames seemed to get a bigger, not too much, but still, bigger. Getting more and more excited when seeing his (according to him) miraculous progress he tried even harder, making the flames spread out further than 50 centimeter.. A little tired and already proud of what he did (-__-') he went home and directly to bed.

[hotoka]

Waking up with a biiig yawn and stretching himself out Hotoka started the morning. Had some breakfast and went out training. It has only been a day since he had results. But before he could go training he had to do some thing. He needed to record all of the people living in the village. The day before he sended a hawk to gather that information. Untill the hawk came back Hotoka could really go anywhere so he just tried the housenka no jutsu outside his house (possible for now since the flames were quite small. [glow=red,2,300]Katon - Housenka no Jutsu[/glow] He shot 4 small flames out in the air, not that impressive but still, it was something. He tried and he tried and after a while he got the flames to get bigger. Unlike the Raikyuu, making the flames bigger was easier than aiming and adding numbers. It was still hard, but getting more flames was even harder. He wanted to try again when he saw a hawk flying towards him. He recieved a couple of notes from the hawk he send and put them in a map. there (^.^) and now of to train! Finaly he went outside to the trainingfield and tried again. He started with facing against teh wind (which was blowing quite fast at the moment)[glow=red,2,300]Katon - Housenka no Jutsu![/glow] He blew the flames out but they were already blown back into his stumach. Ouchie, even tough the flames arent too hot they still hurt :/ And he tried again, and again, the flames were blown back to him. He did notice that the fire became hotter after several tries and the time after that, he even could get the flames to not be blown back by the wind. A quick yaaay came out and he tried again, this time with the fire being blown back against him again. Maybe this is just a little too hard.. Maybe i should start with blowing it with the wind instead of against it.And so, Hotoka tried, causing the flames to reach alot further but also noticably weak (which he could tell just by looking at them). He started thinking. I cant blow against the wind since they are automaticly blown back, but if i blow with the wind it just gets stretched out. The inly option i can think of is traing in the woods but i wonder what Kage-sama would ssay about that. I mean, even tough my flames arent that strong, there is still a chance i burn the forest down.. Hmm, lets try it (^_^') And Hotoka ran in the woods (Is sssoo gonna get lost ) He started training again. He performed the handseals and shot small fireballs. This time they were a little bigger. By now they seemed to have the right size if you looked at the instructionmanual. However, they didnt got further than a meter and there werent so much fireballs as eh tught there should be. His results for today were 4 fireballs and he got the size right. Not too much but still. A start. But now he almost forgot, he was still on a mission. (') Hotoka speeded out of the forest (which took him 2 hours) and finaly found the Kages office, he asked him about the mission again and followed his orders.

[hotoka]

Busy with his mission, Hotoka found a little time for him to train. He already knew the basics and now he had to make the effects stronger. Fireing of his jutsu Hotoka tried to burn some trees. They got a bit black but nothing more. This was kinda frustrating since Hotoka had been getting this effect for a while now. He did got the flames to teh right size tough. But only size without power isnt anything impressive. AND, even if he had power, the flames didnt go further than a meter. Offcourse it was possible that these flames would automaticly go further if they had more power to it but Hotoka wasnt really sure. So he tried to burn the three again but still nothing happening. Next he went shooting in the air, allowing him to produce more flames and his total flamecount already went up to 6. Thinking about it, Maybe the flamedistance was determined by the power put into the blow. That would mean i have to increase my lung capiticy. So Hotoka simply tried to hold his breath. This becoming boring he tried to hold his head underwater as long as possible. After a couple of times he tried again, but not with any noticable effect. Hotoka was sure this was how it should be but already had to go on with is mission. During teh mission he tried to hold is breath for as long as possible and after he was done he tried again, this time the flames actually did go a little further. So Hotoka kept trying to hold his breath as long as possible. Eventually getting tired of that Hotoka went on with numbers. How exactly Hotoka made more flames was a complete mistery for him but he was sure there was a special technique for. Thinking about it, It was said to be possible to hurl projectiles in it, which could probably be rocks too. So Hotoka threw up 6 rocks which he covered with flames, after a while he was able to hurls them all in, even if it was for a milisecond. doing this over and over Hotoka started to notice that teh flames came further, now reaching over 2 meters. Hotoka now started to realize it just takes alot of effort to make the flames go further, nothing special like lung capicity enlargement. Well, maybe it helped a little, but it was mainly done by doing it over and over. He ran over to a three and tried to set it on fire. It didnt happen directly but it started smouldering. Hotoka took this time to rest and watch the tree starting to burn. Just before the flames were going to catch over at other tree's Hotoka put it out with his teppodama. Trying this over and over again Hotoka started to feel hot. I guess this means that I'm on my limit And Hotoka went home.

[hotoka]

The next day Hotoka woke up early and went to the forest.this time he wanted to make his flames stronger and hotter which would be handy (was so sure of that). So he tought about it and made it "simple", making water vaporize. (seeing he couldnt even fry a tree I am curious how he would do) First he started of with [glow=blue,2,300]Suiton: Teppodama[/glow] And made a small puddle. [glow=red,2,300]Katon:Housenka no Jutsu[/glow]... No effect, it just made the fire die out. So he tried it again and again, noticing that it just didnt work. So he just went back to burning trees, and this time, hopefully without smouldering. But every time he tried it was close to nothing. Sssoo, water is a no, tree's dont even work.. then... bushes? (.___.') Hotoka went to look for bushes. And being in a forest, he found one quite fast. Now then, Katon, Housenka no Jutsu! He just launched the jutsu at the bushes and they already catched flames, leaving nothing but a pile of ashes by the time Hotoka found it necessary to put the fire out. [Moment of silence for the bushes (y-y)] After that Hotoka tried it at trees, this time having as good as no effect again. Hotoka tried and tried and eventually got out a 7th flame. Happy with the new flame but still anoyed because he wanted to burn down some trees. After a while he noticed that he could set twigs on fire and a little later even the tree itself. YaaaY Finaly being able to set things on fire he went making his flames reach further, by trying to blow against the wind. The first couple of tries the flames came back, leaving Hotoka with just enough time to dodge or even being burned himself. Some times he was able to fire the flames for a meter or even more. Now wondering what he had learned he tried it again in the woods (where isnt as much wind) and the flames now reached further than 4 meters. Happy with this Hotoka went to the open field again. After trying and trying he finaly was able to keep the flames from going back even a little and they came around 5 meters far. Now trying this in the forest he saw the flames go as far as they could before hitting a tree. Happy as was with the results Hotoka noticed alot of trees catching fire and passing it on in a rapid rate. Uhh, shit.. Not wanting the forest to completely burn up (he wanted to have something to train on) hequickly made some handseals [glow=Blue,2,300]Suiton: Teppodama[/glow] but it didnt had much of an effect. (') And Hotoka raged on [glow=blue,2,300]Suiton, Suiton, Suiton![/glow] after a fierce battle between Hotoka and the forestfire, Hotoka eventually won, leaving dozens of burned trees. Tired out and almost out of chakra, Hotoka fainted..

[lash]

((OOC: Very nice work, Hotoka. Sorry I haven't been clicking around here more often, I've been doing a lot of work in the village and whatnot. Nice working here, I'm gonna say 14/30 on your jutsu. ))

[hotoka]

After his previous day experience (burning a dozens of trees down) Hotoka tought it was time for a real challenge. Vaporizing water. He went into the forest searching for a good field to practice in, maybe even with some craters. After searching for a while he did found something where you could put water in. No crater, but almost as good. Suiton: Teppodama Filling the little gap with water Hotoka started using his Katon. Katon: Housenka no Jutsu He fired at the puddlle and didnt noticed much of an effect, just a couple of flames dieing out and some missing it. Err, hard.. :/ And Hotoka started trying again. This time putting in all his force, making a little shishing sound but nothing more. After trying adn trying (stepping a liiitle closer every time) He finaly saw some steam coming off. Knowing it was possible Hotoka went on and on untill, after a while, the entire puddle was gone. leaving Hotoka to go back on distancepractice. This was to make his flames go further and more accurate. Standing 3 meters away from the wall he shot some fireballs and all of them hit. Now he stepped back another 3 meters making him stand 6 meters away from the wall. Trying it again he had 3 from the 4 hit it. He tried again, and again. He kept having the same result untill he tried for his fourth time, making all the balls hit. He tought he should do it one more time, now from 10 meters. Katon: Housenka no Jutsu! Only one tried to hit it. Trying and trying it Hotoka became more and more tired, He tried it 5 more times resulting to get one tag the wall just for a milisecond and went home.

[hotoka]

10 Meters.. That was his previous record. He could get one of the seven flames 10 meters far. And only for a second. Damn, this has to get alot better He said and started training again. KATON: HOUSENKA NO JUTSU! The flames, maybe not going further than 7 meters, were noticable more powerfull than the first couple of times. This giving a littleee smile on his face but also drove him to get it even stronger. So he took a deep breath, Katon: Housenka no Jutsu! Blowing with all the force he could get out of his lungs he only shot 3 fireballs, but, every ball hitting the wall with full speed and dissapearing with the flames flying around. It looked like he could get them to fly quite far but had to sacrifice more than half of the flames for it. Hotoka started to wonder what would be the most important of this jutsu. Was it the number? or was it the speed? Hmmm, Probably both.. Hotoka this time tried to put something in between it. Quite a powerfull blow but not at full power and as he expected, there came more flames while theys still reached the 10 meters. Practicing with this knowledge he finaly found the perfect amount of power to put in your blow to maintain quality and quantity at the same time resulting his flames to go over 25 meters and rise up to an amount of 10. Looking at the wall, filled with burnmarks Hotoka thought it was time to practice on other things and went to an open field to do targetpractice. Taking a deep breath shot 10 flames at the small rocks. He hit 2 of the 5 rocks. After trying it again he aimed the flames to one rock. resulting 6 of the flames to hit it. He kept practicing untill he had them all hitting the same rock. Now he went back on the multiple targetpractice. After his ability to aim 2 flames at one object he was able to hit 4 of the 5 rocks while 9 flames hit the rocks. Finaly be able to aim well and all the basics learned he went training his ability to put objects in the flames. This was harder than it seemed. Not just throwing and shooting but trying to aim 20 objects at the same time. He had a hard time with it but found himself to be able to put objects in his flames up to 7 pieces after hours of practicing. Almost no Kunaitargets left in the area and Hotoka exhausted, he went back home and straight to bed.

[lash]

((OOC: 22/30))

[hotoka]

Hotoka, now traveling to the sound, Kept trying to master his Jutsu. Again he tried, Katon: Housenka no jutsu All kinds of flames flew through the air, leaving the merchants quite amused again. Since Hotoka was hit by the fuuton attack from Saiga he was still a bit dizzy and unfoccused at times but he managed. He grabed a handfull of rocks and threw them away while making the housenka cover them. He started out with 5 flames. 3 of the 5 rocks became covered in the flames. Hotoka, knewing he had to get at least 10 flames, kept trying this. He didnt liked the fact that he couldn't even manage to get them all since he had been able to get 7 a few days before that. He kept trying it and after a while he could get all five the rocks covered in flames. Quite happy with this result he immediatly rose his number of flames up to 10. He tried and tried but he couldn't get past the 6. It was really alot harder than just shooting. He now had to aim the flame at two places, first the rock and then the target. He tried and tried but it just didnt work. He stoped a while so he could catch some breath because even if this was trainin, it also was a mission, fainting at this moment would be bad. During that time the merchants walked further again. Hotoka went back to protecting them again and again, had a little chat with one of the merchants. It's alot harder than it looks y'know? I mean, first i have to aim the rocks at the targets and after that i have to aim the flames at the rocks and the target at the same time. Well, if you throw the rocks straight at the targets you would only have to aim your flames at the targets right? Hmmm, could be. But on the other hand, if i just aim the flames at the target they could easily pass the rocks in the air. Ah, like that. Hmm.[/b] Hotoka and the merchants thought quite a while about it while suddenly the merchants bodyguard said: Then why dont you do it in the opposite way? How do you mean? Well, what if you fire the flames first and then throw the rocks in the flames? I mean, the flames could direct the rocks to the target so you'd only have to aim eacht piece once. () That's it!!! Dude, you're a genius (') Heh, thanks (^_^") So during the next stop they made Hotoka tried the way the bodyguard said. [glow=red,2,300]KATON: HOUSENKA NO JUTSU[/glow]Hotoka shouted as he directly after that threw the rocks in the flames. He got 8 of the 10 in this time. Hotoka knew it'd take a litle more ffort than only knowing the theory tried and tried. After trying it 6 more times he finaly got 9 in. This is sssoo awesome (n_n) After trying 5 more times he actually got all 10 of them. The time after that he got 9 again but still. He got 10. He kept trying untill he got a little tired again, this time he got them all in for 4 times. After that he went sleeping since shinobi, no matter how strong they are, should sleep too once in a while.

[||Yuuku||]

+5

((27/30)) Next post is it. If it is at least ok

[hotoka]

Hotoka tought he had almost mastered it now. It was just a weird feeling he had. His flames started to become faster, hotter, more acurate and he kept maintaining the number. He was quite proud of it all and continued training. This time it was time to use this in action. He could use it in battles yet but he tried to perform the technique while moving. He ran up to a tree, jumped against it and jumped even higher after that and launched them all towards a rock. The flames flew towards it and in no-time he had hurled some smal rocks in it which were (suprisingly) all directed by the flames towards the target. 7 of the 10 flames hit the rock and Hotoka kept trying, every time in a different way. He made a somersault and blew the flames out before he hit the ground. All of them had a little spin to it but none of them hit the rock. Thinking about it, Hotoka wondered when exactly he would have to use this technique while doing a somersault. It looked flashy but efficient was a completely different thing. He just went back to jumping from tree to tree. He kept trying different stuff that were all action-based like throwing a rock in the air and hitting it with all 10 the flames (which eventually worked) and while hanging up-side-down on a tree. He became more and more skilled in the use of it during action and decided to go hunting with it. He slowly walked through the forest untill he spotted a boar. He could sneak up to it and kill it then but then it wouldnt be much fun so he decided to make it a little agressive first by throwing rocks at him. The moment the boar saw him he stormed towards Hotoka and Hotoka, who made a promise with himself not to use the trees this time, dodged the boar. He kept dodging it and the boar became more and more furious. Hotoka kept having more trouble evading him and thought it was about time. [glow=red,2,300]KATON: HOUSENKA NO JUTSU![/glow] He shot 10 balls at the boar all with rocks in them. 8 of the ten flames hit the boar and he was killed by it. Hotoka grabbed the boar and dragged it back to the camp. Hotoka went sitting by the merchants and preparred the boar. After that Hotoka went sleeping, this time really proud of what he did.

[Hyuuga Ryuujin]

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