/The Lord Kaishin/ (T)

[Masakuni]

Name: Snow Shovelling
Rank: D
IIC Length: 1 Day
Difficulty: Easy, 1 Gennin
Description: Just because we live in the Land of the Snow doesn’t mean we don’t need our treets shoveled! As gennin, it is your duty to clear out the streets.
Objective: Clear the streets of Yukigakure from the ever falling snow. This should take three posts at least.
Reward: 500 Ryo

(1.3)

Flying Water Needles of Death
Rank: C-Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Same as the Description.
Drawback: ---
Description: This is the basis of using the Sensatsu Suisho. When first learned the user gains the capability of using this technique to where they are only capable of creating a hundred Water Like needles and then directs them a specific target at high speed, leaping backwards before impact so then the user doesn't get caught in the crossfire. The user is capable of using this as well to shoot the needles towards other directions that does not interface with the user. This technique can be raised by how many needles will be created. Each time the user learns this technique they gain the capability of forming a hundred more needles. This technique can only be learned nine times before the user has to go up a higher rank to learn this technique.
Limit: Suiton Soushi (Water Creation). Must have the Water Release. Must be part of the Kaishin Bloodlimit. Must have knowledge of Kuri Buki E Rank

(0.20)

Kaishin Masakuni grumbled, standing out in the cold air of Yukigakure no Sato. It was icy this morning, so much so that even some of the most callously careless ninja in the village were bundling up to defend themselves from frostbite. This didn’t worry Kaishin Masakuni, however, who lived and breathed ice. He brushed his fingers through the snow, still frowning to himself. At least the sun wasn’t glaring in his eye, though. He hated that damn ball of fire.

He sighed, looking out over the roads heaped with Snow. He had volunteered to take a lower-ranking mission this time around, hoping he could get out of a little work. Well, it seemed that he had forgotten just how much menial labor was entailed in D and C rank missions. He sighed. On the bright side, as a Kaishin, snow was a part of his dominion. If he was creative with his ninja techniques, he could clear all this snow away, easily.

And he knew just how to do it. Ingeniously, Kaishin Masakuni was going to convert all of the snow into water. He smiled, closing his eyes and focusing his chakra throughout his body. It came as a slow trickle at first, barely rippling up along his body, twisting inside his tenketsu and flowing through the many tubes of the chakra circulatory system. However, it was so much more than that all to soon. Closing his eyes, he focused.

To convert snow to water was an interesting, if not all that difficult task. Snow, ice, water, and vapor were all the same thing, two hydrogen atoms bonded to a single oxygen atom. The same thing, a thing that was entirely under his control, a single molecule his clan was intimately familiar with. He let the energy run throughout his body, and slowly exerted it beyond that, flowing into his aura, that radius of cold he controlled.

Slowly, but surely, his power spread into the snow. He felt it all around him, intimately sensing the vibrations, shifting, and temperature of the cold around him. He was a master at that, as was most of his clan. With a few quick motions of his hands, swinging them around to clear his head, he was ready. He let his chakra seep through his aura, flowing into the surrounding snow that he was feeling so closely.

Ever so softly, he began to tug at the bonds of the ice crystals that comprised the snow, trying to draw them apart. He didn’t have to break them apart so far that he would turn them into water vapor, just enough to change them from a tentative solid into a liquid, so that they could flow into a proper water form. He weakened the bonds slowly, letting the chakra seep throughout the snow and break more and more crystals into molecules.

He could feel the snow around him weakening, changing from a hard-packed form into a more powdery form that still retained the wetness of the original snow. It was almost slush, now. He exerted his chakra a bit more, causing the snow to collapse slightly, leaving him standing in a radius of, apparently, thick slush. It didn’t bother him one bit. Despite his clothes, he could be naked in this weather and love it. He tugged more at the bonds, pulling the slush into a deeper slump of liquidness. He was closer…

[Masakuni]

(2.3)

(?.20)

Kaishin Masakuni let out a chilly sigh, his cool breath refusing to fog in the air, instead joining the already frozen air and mingling. It would have looked odd, to the observant onlooker, that his breath did not condense when it hit the cold air. But then, that observant onlooker should have realized that he was a Kaishin, not just a Kaishin but also the Lord Kaishin, and that the cold was his home and his dominion.

The shinobi of Yukigakure focused on the liquefying snow all around him, wrapping the aura of his power around it, letting the slush slowly form into a much more free-flowing state; namely, liquid water. He held it in check, preventing the water from simply leaking through the rest of the snow, instead holding it in a pool around his body, letting the tiny waves caused by the wind lap at the sides of his boots.

With a single motion, like a conductor raising his baton to the orchestra, he brought his hands up. And like the instruments of that orchestra, the water rose with his hands, rising in a single solid mass, never once wetting him as the massive pool of liquid rose above his head. He concentrated, feeling his way through every single bit of that chakra-laden water, making sure each and every inch of it was in his control.

He swayed his hands slightly, causing the water to begin to separate. He could feel it dividing, turning into a predetermined shape that had been his plan since the very beginning. He twisted that water into a long, thin form, making hundreds of them in the air around him. Every last droplet was consumed in the forming of these, a grand total of now two hundred writhing balls of water in the air, and still dividing into more.

He concentrated, giving form and definition to the balls as they thinned, out, forming into tiny rods and poles and pinpoints. He closed his eyes, letting his chakra do the ‘seeing’ for him as he continued to manipulate the water floating around him, defining each bit into a tiny skewer formed of pure water. He frowned slightly, dividing a particularly thick mass of water into three separate needles. He rubbed the points of each one into a sharp, lethal tip.

He slowly worked ice through the cores of each of these needles as well, giving them that tiny, added point of hardness that he needed, not quite in solid form, but the closest thing that could be found in liquid form. These needles were lethal, every last one of them. Kaishin Masakuni made sure of that, enforcing all three hundred of the floating water needles with his chakra. He held them up in the air, opening his eyes.

“Well then.” He said to himself, finally speaking with a faint frown on his face. He flicked his fingers slightly, sending all three hundred of the deadly needles straight up into the sky, evaporating as they left the realm of his chilly influence. With a sigh, he looked around him; quite a bit of snow had been cleared in his little exercise. Nearly all fifty-five meters of his aura had been influenced. He still had a bit more snow to get rid of, though. He sighed.

“Suppose I better work then.”

[hotaru]

+20

[Masakuni]

(3.3

Even if his training was complete, his mission was not. With a sigh, he gathered up his power once more, which had begun to ebb after he had completed his technique. It was not yet time to release his hold on the icy world around him. He let his chakra seep back into his aura, wrapping around his body and exuding from him, creating a cool sensation that quickly turned into a frosty chill, and eventually into a bone-chilling freeze.

The freeze thrust out from his body, extending all around him into the cold streets, covering the entire street he was standing on. He could feel all that mass of snow, fifty-five meters in both directions, all under his control. Using his Kami-given power, he could grasp it all in his mind’s eye. It was still no easy task, and he was straining his aura to the absolute limit of his influence over this snowy wonderland.

He flowed his chakra into the auric field, bolstering it and strengthening it as he used it to master the arts of the cold, flowing his strength into exerting dominance over all of the snow in that radius. With a sigh, he let his chakra fill that entire, massive radius, straining himself quite a bit as he wrapped this gargantuan field of auric chakra around each and every particle of snow in his general vicinity.

Snow, that was soon to be gone. He flung his hands upward, arms trembling as though holding up some massive weight. As he did so, the snow around him rose, all the snow within a diameter of one-hundred-ten meters, sluggishly floating up into the air, floating above the earth and leaving only a thin white film over the long forgotten grass of Yukigakure no Sato, which Kaishin Masakuni was sure was mostly likely completely dead.

With a powerful motion, he clenched his fist, freezing all the snow in place, like statues. They hung there, mounds of suspended snow, perfectly defying gravity. With a growl, Masakuni stamped his foot on the ground and flung his arms to the side. The snow sped up and out, flung out of the area and blasting away into oblivion as the streets were left almost free of the permanent snow. That, of course, simply left ice underneath.

“Hah.” Masakuni muttered to himself. “Damn easy.” He straightened, wincing slightly. That had taken far more chakra than he probably should have used. It was no good to constantly push his limits. He rotated his arms, feeling the shoulder joints. Well, at least now he had the day off, as soon as he went in and reported the mission as completed. With a slightly less severe frown then before, he set off towards the Yukikage tower.

=Exit=