Fate Has Arrived

[Zetsumei]

+10
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With the sand beneath his feet the Suna Hito continued on to the Village, speakign to the Kunoichi. "You stay here and get some rest, I'm heading back to the Village and we can speak then."

[Exit]

[Beautiful Rogue]

55/100

The man of sand left her alone within the vast stretch of sand. She was close enough to the village to be able to see the various systems of chakra working through the people, even as they worked and toiled within the walls of the village. It was odd, she could see the various chakra natures running through everyone in the village, or most people, but she could no see through the walls or anything, it was as though someone had taken various laser lights and was shining them across the wall creating patterns of light, yellow, white and blue, all strange colors mixing and dancing as the people moved within the walls.

Her eyes scanned the large walls of the city, it was well defended, but it times like this, the peaceful times, it was lax and simple to overcome the defenses. Then again, using her Tsubasa, she could easily fly over, an aerial assault would not be something anyone would be expecting. Lightning shook her head clear of such thoughts, no there was nothing for her to do with the defenses, that was up to the Kazekage. Another thing she was worried about, she had left Kaze no Kuni without permission from the Kage, but she was in cahoots with another sand ninja, and they were traveling to find Nirashi.

As she walked towards the gate, unfortunately positioned around the other side of the damn village, she practiced looking at the various systems of chakra that people possessed as she passed, her eyes scanning the inner walls of the fortified city. It was strange, but cool, all at the same time. Her eyes were getting easier to control with every use, and the pain she had associated with them at first was beginning to dim, as was the blood that had pooled in her tear ducts. Everything was working well, except she knew that she was still using slightly too much chakra, as at times her vision would blur, and the concentrated images would haze for a second.

The amount of chakra that was needed to perform the technique was not too exhorberant, yet, she could definitely feel the strain of it over the amount lost from before. However, the clarity and detail in which the eyes granted her were well worth the extra chakra. A fuzzy light emanated from the Kage tower, she was nearer to the large structure than she had imagined, and if she were to guess, then that blotch of white chakra was Zetsumei, and having been on her own to trek the last long stretch before she could reach home, and now it seemed that the man was reporting to the Kage. The sight flickered for a second before coming back on to full strength, showing another mass of wind chakra. This one was confined and systematic, telling her that it was a human chakra, but it was enormous, even the wind chakra alone overwhelming the sand mans.

'The Kage...'

There was another, more familiar looking chakra signal too, one that must have belonged to Nirashi. Finally he had arrived back and she could continue her training with him. The hope she had now, was that the Kage would not class her as a missing ninja for leaving, she had not meant to do so, she just wanted to see the handsome chuunin. He would know how to help her with her training, she knew that for a fact, and if he could not. Well, she could just keep using it until she was used to it. Perhaps even try using the jutsu in combination with the eye. However, for now, she would rest, it had been a long and pointless journey, and she was not ready to go back into the city quite yet.

[Beautiful Rogue]

??/100

Small droplets of blood streaked down her cheeks and dripped from her chin. Beneath her closed and resting eyelids, her eyes were entering a state known as REM. Her muscles were becoming active, if only slightly, and the electric pulses sent from her mind to her body increased. She was dreaming, and due to the overstressed nerves in her body, caused from lack of sleep. her mind was inflicting pain through her muscles, sending the messages down the nerves, but the muscles, as they were asleep was not registering properly. However, in her mind, everything was happening.

Several things were happening at once. Lightning shook and rolled over, throwing up into the sand next to her. She coughed a few times before expelling the remaining contents of her stomach, which was nothing but bile, as now she had gone a long while without eating, and even her rest was fraught with training. She could just not catch a break. Her body ached and her head was pounding. Within her mind she had confronted her own limits again, her chakra against her. Once again, she had to overcome it in such a way that it made her body pulse with agony.

She coughed again, spitting the last dregs of bile from her mouth. Sickening. She stood shakily on her legs, trying to think of what to do, aside from wiping the streaks of blood from her face of course. However, due to such extensive pain in her body, she doubted a trip to village would be fun. Then again, she did need to get some food into her, possibly just get some new supplies. Her eyes were already activated, so there was no need to worry about that. She had figured it would be best for her to have them activated to get used to the drain on her chakra, and to get used to the extensive distance that she could now see, and the chakra lines that were now so beautifully swimming around.

The detail in which she could see was marvelous, and she wondered that if she could have them activated all the time, then she would have a very large advantage over those who could not detect chakra systems within the body. And even if she could only activate one, it would be half the drain and it would still give her the advantage of being able to see chakra systems within ones body. Lightning knew that one could see through walls and bodies with her eyes, but she could only see the outlines of chakra, but, with only one eye activated, it would increase her sight, almost like photo-imposing one video over another.

The problem was that she would find with this, is the redirection of chakra through only a singular optic nerve, allowing the chakra to stimulate a single eye instead of both. She was unclear on whether or not she had the control to do it, but it was worth a try. Her eyes lit up as her chakra was forced through both of her eyes, the same as always, however, she tried to direct the chakra over to a singular eye, keeping it controlled. The pain increased rapidly, causing her to have to shut it down almost instantly. Blood was welling in her eye from the tear duct, and was running down her face in streams.

Lightning grimaced wiping the blood from her eye and cheek. The crimson liquid stained her hands and the droplets stained the yellow sands red, but they would be erased with time. Apparently the flow of chakra that was stemmed from both eye was too much for a single eye to handle, making it too painful, and clearly explaining to her that she would have to lessen the amount of chakra going to her eye. She rubbed her eye again, trying to null the pain, but it was throbbing, most likely from an overuse of chakra.

'Stupid Mistake'

[👺 Usiel]

+20

[Beautiful Rogue]

75/100

Her eye was aching, and the left side of her face was coated with her own, coagulated and dried blood. Streams of the crimson fluid had formed rivers of red down her pale and unblemished skin. Her left eye was closed tightly, trying to keep the bright light from her damaged eye. So far, she had not succeeded in keeping her chakra low enough and diverting the flow to one eye. It was difficult, more difficult than she had anticipated. Her right eye was no longer activated with the Sutomumanako, and the sight was back to normal, yet her left eye was still showing signs of the eye.

Currently she had it only on the first stage, she was building her way up from the Fuukamanako to the Sutomumanako,. The progress was slow, and rather painful, as the chakra usage would switch up every time the rank of the eye would go up. The overuse of chakra would cause the thumping headache and the bleeding, while the under use just caused her vision to be blurred and ineffective. However, achieving the proper amount of chakra for a singular eye was much more difficult than for both. It was taking the prequisite chakra for both eyes, and splitting it in half, but also, one had to keep the flow only through one of the optic pathways, otherwise, as she had discovered, the leaking chakra would blur her eyesight in the other eye, while retracting from the sight in the other eye.

This disturbance was not heralded lightly by the Sansutomu mistress, and it made her slightly impatient to get on with the sight. She needed to focus harder and keep the chakra contained within her left optic nerve to allow her to view the chakra systems with her left eye and still use her right to see normally. The effect it would create would allow her to recognize both the person and their chakra system, making battle easier to differentiate between friend and foe. Of course, with others, such as the as the Sand man Zetsumei, it would be plainly obvious who he was, as his chakra was all over the place, converging around his body in such a manner that it was easily recognizable that he was not human.

The chakra was welling in her left eye, and the second stage was activated, the swirling in her eye became more apparent and the the veins and arteries surrounding her eyes and down behind her eyes began to glow a faint blue. It was fairly noticeable, but she did not care right now. The blue around her veins was only activated on the one side of her face, giving her a fairly strange look, as the chakra was only lighting one side. Her tear ducts filled with blood as the increase in chakra was not controlled. After a few second, and only a few tears of blood, the red liquid receded as she gained control of her chakra and reduced it to the maximum efficiency point. The eye would settle for a moment, before beginning to storm madly, the iris spinning and whirling around the pupil.

Lightning pumped her chakra into her eye, activating the third stage. The veins all around the left side of her body beginning to glow, the chakra flowing through her body at a quickening rate. Her eye glowed a brighter blue than previously, and flecks of light were beginning to shine through the blue. Her Sclera shone with an odd aura, the whirling and rotation of it harder to notice than the iris, but still quite obvious. The crimson liquid began to pour from her tear ducts, the more chakra harder to supress. The blood leaked from her eye, painful as it was, she forced herself through the pain. Closing both of her eyes, she focused intently, determined to stop the bleeding, as she had lost enough of it already.

The swirling patterns became more obvious from behind her eyelid, the chakra flow in the bodies of the people behind the walls coming into sight and the wind in the air coming into view. Everything was just a mass of swirling energy. Blackness was inherant of the view as it was though, as both of her eyes were closed and the only view she could manage was with the chakra. Tentatively, she opened her eyes and scanned the horizen. Her view was partly blocked by blood, but it was as though someone had overlaid chakra natures over her regular vision. The effect had worked, although it had given her a strangely nausious feeling.

[zuka]

+10

[Zetsumei]

Eagle Eye
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: enhances sight for a single post.
Special: None
Drawback: Only usable for one post and causes a slight blurring to sight as it returns to normal.
Description: Most of the bow men you read about in stories and books, even in the Archery books, train heir eyes to zone in on the target in the distance and block all else out to achieve it. Usually it deals with long distance type shots, such as to take out an exicutioner to save a friend or in the case of one ninja story I read, to simply assassinate at a safer distance and allow easy escape. In this jutsu, the user narrows their eyes and focuses the chakra to their eyes to enhance vision at long distance for momentary periods of time for a long range assassination shot from a crossbow or long bow. This is only a matter of a few seconds and is used to focus on distant targets for a sniper type shot at a target.
Limit: Must be a bowman and possess at least a long bow to learn and use this.

0/10

Upon leaving the Gates the Suna Hito began a normal walk throughout the desert, though this walk contained purpose. He was on the hunt, searching for the Kunoichi known as Lightning to whom he owed an explination of himself. he had not wished to reveal his shifting abilities but he had, yet this hunt may be tricky. It seemed that the Kunoichi had quite a good range of sight and may try to avoid him if at all possible. Such would mean he would have to see her before she could see him. Oh such a jutsu was needed, somethign to hone his sight to a razor edge. Luckily for the Suna Hito, there was a bowman jutsu he had read about to do just that. Scanning throughout his own mind the entity of sand tohught upon it, summoning forth the recollection of the ability.

As he recalled, the jutsu involved a channeling of chakra along the optical nerves and into the eyes, a tricky predicament. Bearing no optic nerves hismelf the Suna Hito would have to rely on a different method to bring the jutsu to life. Running through his own mind as the priestly figure scaled an overly large dune. perhaps the jutsu would work if he simply pooled the chakra into what was being used as a medium for his own sight. Thoughts, calculations, all whirled within his mind as he reached the top of the dune, and gazed upon the landscape before him. 'Twas a vast desert wasteland, yet there was little he could truely do to spot her besides take note of all the abnormalities from the normal land.

Deciding to give the ability a try the entity of the sands began pooling chakra into his eyes. After a quick blink his eyes zoomed in upon their target, blocking out all else, save the single bandit, for that is what he saw it to be. The figure did not seem to be the kunoichi was after, specifically seeing that it was male, yet the scope seemed far to broad for the jutsu to have worked properly, another try would be needed, especially since he was yet to find his target. As his eyes returned to their normal state of sight, his vision was destroyed, severed by a blurring of vision. It seemed that the jutsu had some kickaback, potentially fatal to the average mortal, yet not for the Suna Hito lest he be struck by fire from a great distance.

Gazing about the location he set his eyes upon another spot within the distance. It seemed, from such a distance, to be a group traveling together at great speed, or a storm of the sands. Focusing the chakra along his orbs of the shifting sands the sand entity closed his eyes, narrowing them after the initial opening. it seemed that his suspicsions were true about the counteracting of the broad scope from before with the narrowing of his eyes, and the zoom was narrower then previously. Taking in the sight that fell within his newly aquired gaze, he noticed that it was a traveling caravan, likely full of goods on its way to his fathers shop. With the sight he had aquired with this jutsu he could make out the details of the wagon, the driver in the seat, the tethered beast pulling the cart, even the emblem of his father's shop upon the side.

As the extended focus faded once more, the blurring of sight appeaqred yet again. Rubbing his eyes with sandy digits the Suna Hito looked about again, spotting another figure some hundred yards away. Could this be his target? He knew of only a single way to find out and focused the chakra for the jutsu once more. Instead of blinking this time to activate the chakra he allowed it to occur naturally and saw his vision rush forth towards the girl upon the sands. And awed sight it was to see, such a zooming in from that perspected. the girl had gone from a mere darkened spec upon the desert to a full formed human beign in less then a second. Indeed this was his target and he began moving towards her as his eye fell back to the normal spectrum.


Dashing towards the girl he smiled at the sight of her up close, his eyes havign focused upon the way, yet he said nothing, giving her first oportunity to speak. The Suna Shinobi, with headband of sand formed upon his right bicep, simply smiled and waved at his approach.

[Beautiful Rogue]

85/100

With one eye still activated she could see Zetsumei and his odd chakra signature approaching. She knew it was him the moment his chakra came into the scope of her sight. Her first thought was that it was just wind blowing around, but then, as her other eye focused on the shape in the distance. I was then she realized the flaw in her plan. Less than a flaw really, but more of a technical difficulty. The fact that her right eye could not see as far when inactive. Thefore, even if she could see the chakra, her right eye would not be able to distinguish enemy from friend until they got in close enough.

However, if she activated both eyes. Things became a myriad of patterns and swirls, and her vision of who was who was severly hampered. Her greatest chances of being able to recognize who was who would be to have only one eye activated once close combat was to occur. Otherwise, to recognize foes in the distance, she could just use both eyes activated with the Sutomumanako. Zetsumei, the sand man, was currently heading towards her, obvisouly coming back to explain all the shit that had happened which she was still confused about.

His form was growing larger in the distance, and with her left eye, she could see the mass of wind chakra in his body, and trailing behind him as he sprinted towards her. Coils of white and streaks of chakra flowed behind him, probably from the chakra that bound his body together. Within only a few seconds he had made it to her position and was looking as though he was going to speak. However he did not, as if he was almost expecting her to speak first. So she would do so.

"What the hell is going on then? There is a lot of stuff you need to explain to me, Nirashi, whatever the hell you are, and why we did not need to help him in leaf"

Her already fierce eye flashed angrily, her right eye began to swirl and change, her chakra fueling the transformation, and causing the rest of her veins to light up. She was in full Sutomumanako mode, her chakra pulsing through her body and going to her eyes, where the output of chakra allowed her to see the remnants of human chakra, and the natural chakra that was emanated from everything around. Both of her eyes were spinning with chakra now, and her body was fully prepared in the third stage. The blue glowing of the veins and the bright disorientingness of the eyes was disconcerting to see on the normally placid girl, and it was just a symbol of her anger.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

Zetsu + 10

Rouge + 7

[Zetsumei]

Closing his eyes for a moment the Suna Hito sat among the desert sands. Remaining silented for a few moments more, he would then speak. "I shall start with who, no , what I am. I am of the race known as Suna Hito, a true man of the sands. I am completely one with the sands, made entirely of it to be truthful. I am sorry dragged you to the Land of Fire with no cause, it seems Nirashi managed to complete the task without aid." His tone and features were calm and unphased by the words, as if set in stone, or sand in this case. The kunoichi was free to do as she liked to the sandman, yet he was not fearful in the least.

[Beautiful Rogue]

92/100

Lightning calmed herself, not wanting to lose control of her chakra and ruin the gains she had on her eyes. The Suna Hito had already noticed that her cheeks were stained with blood, it would be impossible not do so. However, that did not mean she was going to forgive him so easily. An advantage to her eyes was that she could now perform D-rank raiton techs with two less hand seals, and she had the perfect one to perform. Her thunderstorm ravens. Normally it would take three, but at the third stage it was only a single seal. Easy, and effective.

Her hands clamped together in the tiger seal, causing thirty crackles of electricity to explode into existence. Sparks and crackles erupted all around the two sand shinobi. Thirty birds of electricity surrounded them, circling around them, their electric wings flapping madly. Lightning stood there, hands still clamped in the tiger seal, a deep frown furrowed on her face, her eyes glowing and veins an eruption of color. Her hair was swept up in the wind. It gave her an ethereal look, disturbing and disconcerting in the least.

"Electricity has the power to turn sand into glass, it super heats the sand so fast that all the particles of it are melted and molten. Then all I have to do is douse you with water. You know what will happen, you'll never leave this spot."

Her eyes pulsed with chakra and her right eye deactivated through the stages, and her body followed in suit. Her veins across the right side of her body slowly fading. Her face still set in her glare, she continued looking at Zetsumei. The sand around them was swept up as the ravens closed in on the two, her hair swung wildly in the powerful gusts that were rising. Her hand went up in the air, a command to the birds to dissipate. Within seconds, the bolts of electricity faded, leaving only a ring of sand around them that was molten from some of the birds that had been dragged across the ground.

Her left eye still activated, it made everything take that plasma effect once more, as if someone had drawn over everything with a bright marker. The swirling and whirling chakra emanated from everything. Zetsumei looked like a mass of white chakra, swirls of white emanating from his. It must have been how his sand body kept together, the wind chakra keeping it stable. She had noticed that Nirashi and Ikki both had Wind chakra too, and also controlled sand. However their chakra was human, so they could not have been of this Suna Hito thing that the man in front of her had spoken of.

"If our trip to Leaf was inconsequential, I suppose I shall make leave of you. Good day."

She nodded in his direction, then without looking back, headed for the gates.

[exit]

[Zetsumei]

Not a flicker of motion was made as the kunoichi demonstrated her power with raiton jutsu. His face was completely blank for a moment merely smirking at her display. As she completed her bit he would interject with a few words of his own. "We're heading back to Leaf with the Kazekage this time. Perhaps if you asked him you would be able to join us." Not caring if she heard and not waiting for the rest of her word, the Suna Hito moved back to the Village. He had accomplished what he had set out to do and that was that.

[Exit]

[zuka]

+7. Sorry.

















... Learned.