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”Right.. I shall now.. make the rose stronger..” she commands, taking a small, short breather before she would begin with the process of this technique. In this one, she would then turn her attention back to the rose which was in her hand, and turn her hand a little bit, so that she would now be holding it by it’s bud, and not carefully holding it on the stalk while at the same time avoiding the thorns. It was far by much safer to hold it by the bud, since there were no thorns to well, hurt you- Unless one had grow weirdly and was growing into the bud.. But of all the flowers she had seen, roses, and other flowers which had thorns, and plants with thorns, she hadn’t seen ones with thorns which pierced through the bud.

They must naturally grow that was, they did naturally grow that way, since the bud was important in flowers, as it held pollen, which would then be picked up by a butterfly or a bee or any other common insect, and send to another flower, pollinating it. So, they couldn’t afford to hurt the bud, as it would mean that the flower in question wouldn’t be able to well.. create more flowers. ”………” she was wondering how long it took for flowers to grow normally. Having not grown anything for a while, she had forgotten the times and everything, but could still briefly remember the best times to plant some things, like the best times to plant potatoes and carrots or sweet potatoes or melons and so on.

But, all of those were in her past now, and were not to be dug up unless she would cease being a ninja, which probably wouldn’t happen in for a while now. Ishi was happy to be a ninja, and to serve her country, and didn’t really feel like stop being a ninja anytime soon, she would hate it if she wouldn’t be able to be one any more. To just.. stop and lead life normally without any Chakra or taijutsu would be awful for Ishi, since then she’d have to slow her life back down again to the pace which she had been stepping in a few years ago, and after that, and now seeing what she could have been doing, she really didn’t want to leave her new, better way of life, even though her income only came from missions, mostly.

Ah well. Now was not the time to think about that, she really needed to perform the next action. Looking back at the bud, she would then begin the next part, using the handseals quickly which she needed to use, and then beginning to flow her chakra into the delicate little bud, making sure not to squish it too badly as she holds it with her index finger and thumb. She smiles to herself as she does this, and waits, taking her time with this technique, since she didn’t want to mess it up. If she would mess it up.. she could never really forgive herself for it, since she would have wasted her time for nothing- But she guessed that everything added up to training, didn’t it? No matter how slow or fast you were, it was still training and added to her knowledge of various things.

”Aaha!” she would blurt out, looking at the bud, noticing that the thorns seemed to harden a little bit, a sign that the technique was being put into action. It wouldn’t be long now until the rose would be fully well, charged. She wasn’t quite sure about what the term would be for it. The rose would be.. pumped up? Nope, that wasn’t it. Ah well, she would think about it later. At the moment, she needed to concentrate on continuing to make the rose strong, not wanting to have to go back and do it again. ”Almost there..” She taunts, narrowing her eyes down at the bud and it’s stalk, as she continues to push her chakra into the flower, making it much more strong than it had been before she had used the technique.

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Barabuki (Rose Weapon)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A user may use a Rose as a small weapon such as a kunai, or a small dagger.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: Holding the bud of the rose the user performs the handseals needed while holding onto the rose. The user then pumps chakra into the rose while concentrating on the wood release with the rose. The rose strength grows as the stem of the rose becomes powerful capable of blocking and deflecting weapons. The thorns adds a different effect to the rose as they grow hard allowing a user to cut into the opponents. The user may throw the rose like a projectile.
Limit: Must know Wood Release

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Now that the rose was almost rock-solid, she grins at it, and then nods, beginning to think once more. She had performed almost.. half of the technique, right- Kinda. This wasn’t really the technique.. It was just a sort of perquisite to learning the S-Ranked technique which she was aiming towards learning, although there were a lot of perquisites- Not really.. Scrap that thought, she only had to learn a few techniques, and she had already done that, all she needed to do now was to use them all, to be able to then make the rose good enough for the seeds to travel along it, and move towards the thorns, or however the final rose technique was to be used. It was something along the lines of that. She had read about it before while in the library, but, the memories of reading about it would probably float back when she was training the S-Rank itself,.

At the moment, she was just putting the pieces to the puzzle, as some might say, or however that saying went. Now, she would just need to make the rose bendy, and then she could finally begin to learn the technique which she was aiming towards mastering itself. She wasn’t that far towards her goal, yet, continued to push herself the best she could so that she could become both stronger, and cleverer when it came to Wood Release. And by learning an S-Rank of the style, it would hopefully be able to help her with mastering it. She had already chosen that Wood Release was to be one that she was going to master. Maybe she’d then work on water.. Or she could learn another release.

She had heard of a release which dealed with paper from some random talk around the Leaf which she had picked up, but, figured that only a few people in the Shinobi world would be able to use it, and only by some sort of special teaching by a talented person who was skilled in the art or something. But, Ishi was sure that it would be a complicated thing to learn, although she could already manipulate wood, earth and water, and those were the ones which you needed to learn for the paper release to work, probably, wood mostly since paper was made out of wood, although it didn’t look like it’s tree siblings that much, and looked like a completely different creature to the brown-armoured plants.

Shaking her head at the silly thought of trees being brown-armoured plants, Ishi then sets her mind once more towards using the last step before she could finally start using the technique, next she needed to manipulate the rose so that it would be flexible enough for her to use as a weapon. This was a pretty easy step, all she would need to do was to just manipulate it once more, and she didn’t need to perform any more handseals to do this, she just needed to manipulate the chakra which she had sent into the rose to make it tough in the first place, which would be useful, since then it would allow her to use other techniques maybe while she was manipulating the rose also.. At the moment it seemed slightly complex, but she knew that once she would be used to doing this, it would be as easy as pie.

Or.. whatever that meant. Some sayings confused her, one was the one which she had just thought of, which was ‘easy as pie’ how was pie easy? Hm. Well, if you loved pie she guessed that it was easy to eat, but, she still didn’t understand the phrase at all. It was slightly.. meaningless. Who had made it up? She also, yet again had no clue. Ishi, at the moment was currently dazed, and in her own little world, but that would soon stop after she would notice what she was doing, and go back on track once more, to resume her important training.

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”I now.. need to make the rose more strong than it had been before..” she mutters, nodding to herself at her goal. Now she would need to use the rose whip technique on the now solidified rose to try and make it longer than it had been before she had used the weapon technique on it. Sure, to start off with the rose was quite bendy- But it was also very delicate and fragile and would probably break if you would try to bend it in half or something, but with the technique she was planning to learn in a few minutes, it would allow her to make them bendy and strong at the same time, which would be a good thing if she would want to make the rose in question into a whip of some sort, a long one maybe. Ishi liked long whips, and thought of them as ‘awesome’.

The process of making a rose long would be quite a simple one, really, if you were used to using the technique. Yet, even though Ishi had used it a few times before, she still found it amazing how you could manipulate the very life of the rose, turning it from a delicate and gentle flower to a strong, chakra-pumped plant. It was quite weird how you could manipulate the roses, but, she figured that since it was useful for her well, training, that she shouldn’t question it, and just be thankful that she was able to manipulate the plant. She should be thankful for the ability to manipulate wood and plants in the first place, since, to Ishi that was quite good to start off with.

”Hm..” a small tone of confusion would be hummed from Ishi’s mouth as she begins to put her thoughts to action, and attempt to use the technique on the rose which she was holding by the bud, using her thumb and index finger. She would then begin by simply beginning to manipulate the chakra which she had placed inside the rose, narrowing her eyes down at it as she continues to concentrate. The door was to make it long, very long. About.. three feet long at the most? She wanted to make a long whip to use for the S-Ranked technique, and well, Ishi liked whips. Maybe she should buy one from a shop in the Sea country later on? She wasn’t quite sure if she had enough money to buy one, but hoped so.

”And now to begin..” she tells herself, nodding lightly, and then quickly, after a little bit of concentration she noticed that the stem of the rose started to lengthen a little bit, and then.. more. Ishi grins at this, glad that her concentration had finally paid off and she could now continue with her learning of the dangerous technique that she was planning to harness. So, another step down, only a few more to go. She grins once more to herself silently, and then keeps on focusing on her goal, lengthening the rose further, so that it seemed to touch the floor after a little bit. It was almost fine enough to use now. After a minute or so of more lengthening, Ishi nods, and was ready to learn the next step towards using the S-Ranked one.

She was almost there.. Only one more perquisite and she would be able to finally try and use the technique! She had waited so long, and had spent so much time learning the perquisites to learn the technique- Well, by perquisites she meant the techniques that she needed to learn first before actually learning the technique which she was aiming towards learning. She had also spent much time using the genesis and seed summoning techniques, so she was glad that it was almost time to use the rose garden technique. Smiling, she looks at the lengthened rose in her hand, which was more like a long stick now, although she continued to hold it by the bud, really not wanting to accidentally stab herself with the now newly-sharpened thorns on it.

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Baratake (Rose Length)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A user may use a Rose as a lengthened weapon like a larger blade or a spiked club.
Special: As long as the user holds onto the rose and uses Barabuki (Rose Weapon) the user may change the size of the Rose without additional handseals.
Drawback: ---
Description: Holding the bud of the rose the user; after performing Barabuki (Rose Weapon) may control the length of the rose at will. The user may allow the rose stem grow in size, or even shrink it. The user may shrink the Rose to the size of a few inches, and may increase the size of the Rose to the size of a Great Sword. With this technique the user may also increase the size of the stem's width as well. This means that the user may increase the stem to the width size of a baseball bat or a large club. The user may also use the thorns of the whip as sharp tacks to sheer off skin or clothing that the whip attaches to. User may not change the stem size to abnormal shapes such as a shield.
Limit: Must know Barabuki (Rose Weapon)

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Once she had finished lengthening the rose, Ishi’s mind then seems to drift off into space once more as she daydreams about what she should do next- Of course the answer was to well, do the next perquisite, but her mind kept floating off into the sky as she looks at the crystal-like surface of the water as she swishes along to the golden, warm sands. She had been in the area now for a few hours, yet the sun still looked as bright as ever. Smiling at the gulls who swooped down upon the sea, probably trying to find some fish or something, her mind then turns a little bit so that she was thinking about the technique that she was planning to learn, and the dangers of it- Well, if course it was going to be dangerous, since it included well, killing a person if it was used.

But, she would still promise herself that she wouldn’t use it without having a good reason firstly. Because, really, at the end of the day, what was the point in killing someone for no reason at all? She knew that there were some people in the world who were quick to decide to take someone’s life, and Ishi thought that she could never be one of them unless she was in danger of being slaughtered by the person in question in the first place. Maybe then would be the only time about when she would use this technique, probably. Maybe she’d need it in the next exam round if she wasn’t careful. She would still wonder about who she would be up against, since well, she knew there were quite a few people who had entered the exams, and she had only seen and met a handful of them up to now.

”R-Right. Now to continue..” she would make herself remember, nodding lightly afterwards, and looking at the pole-like rose which jutted into the earth after being made. She smiles to it slightly, tilting her ginger little head to the side, causing her bangs to also move to the side a little bit, so that now her right ear was visible. Her ears were still not pierced. Some might have their ears done, but she hadn’t, since her adoptive parents probably thought of it as cruel to pierce her ears without asking her first. But now, it was too late, and Ishi didn’t really know anyone who could pierce ears, and didn’t feel like piercing them herself. That was just nasty- Or so Ishi herself believed that.

”I need to concentrate on the work.. not piercing.. ears..” she would tells herself, shaking her head and moving the mental subject in her head back to wood release and manipulating plants. There wasn’t long to go until she would finally be able to finish the perquisites, so she couldn’t want until she could well, start learning the technique, no matter how dangerous and life-threatening that it was- Although it was more life-threatening to her foe, not to Ishi herself that is. It would be just silly if she would use the technique on herself, and it would be painful too, probably. Laughing nervously to herself at that thought she then shakes her head, and looks at the ground beneath her, which, a few metres to her right soon turned into sand, enveloping the whole beach with it’s golden tan colour.

She hadn’t been on the beach for a while, so this was a slight change for her, having not been to one for about.. six or so years. All she wanted to do was jump into the sea once more to swim and just mess around, but what was the fun in that when you had no-one to play with? You’d have to throw water over yourself and just swim by yourself, although Ishi usually just trained alone, ate alone, and spent most of her days alone, although she had friends around the Leaf now, she didn’t see them every day. It was a pity that she diddn’t have any brothers or sisters, maybe then she would be able to have someone to spar with her. She had heard of a type of clan which allowed twins to well, join together as one, and then part. It was quite weird-sounding, but, sounded nice, since they would probably never be lonely wherever they went.

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Shaking her head quickly, the young girl then sets forward to using the next step, which would need her to make the rose flexible, into less of a sort of pole-like rose to a flexi sort of whip. Grinning, she begins to concentrate on the chakra in the rose once more, attempting to bend it a little bit to start off with, and then she could continue, and turn it into a way bendier sort of rose. She needed it so that it had the flexibility of rope, like a good whip, just with thorns on it. It must hurt if you were whipped with it, since all of the spines and what-not. Well, Ishi herself wouldn’t really like to be whipped with one, that was for sure, and who would? Meh. Shaking her head once more, the young girl then continues to concentrate on making the rose more flexible.

”just need.. to make it more flexible.. like.. a piece of string..” Narrowing her eyes down at the rose-like pole which was in her hand, she takes a deep breath, inhaling through her nose, and keeps up her focusing on the rose, watching it soon start to.. become weaker in appearance, as it seems to droop. Was it working? It sure appeared to become more.. flexible, that was for sure. Flicking her wrist upwards, she examines it, and then squishes a part of the stem which didn’t have a thorn on it, happily noticing that it wasn’t being squished, but was like.. a long, long piece of rubber instead- Sure it got a little bit squished, but it went back into shape straight afterwards, just how she wanted it to be like, and hoped that it would turn out like. Hurray! She had finished that part.

Flicking her hand to the side, the whip would come with her, also flicking to the side in a very whip-like manner. Grinning at the satisfying sound it made, which was a violent sounding crack, and then lowers her hand once more, looking at the rose. It had once been a normal rose.. then had turned into a super-strong one.. then turned into a sort of.. rose-pole, and was now a whip. Oh how things changed when you’re having fun- Well, to her training was fun. To others it might be a chore of some sort, but Ishi loved training and thought that it was very exciting, being able to learn something new all the time. Although, she was more of the training-crazy types who kept wanting to learn things, and didn’t want to slow down and take a day’s break or something.

Because Ishi was weird like that, she could spend a whole day training if she wanted to, since probably she would have nothing better to do except just laze around or do missions, but, out of those three, training was her favourite, then missions, and then lazing around, although some days she was very non-progressive and would just laze about all of the day, just sleeping in trees, catching up on lost slumber, or just basking in the sun like a tourist, although Ishi could never catch a tan, she liked the feeling of the sun’s rays on her skin, it was a nice and relaxing one, although she knew that some people probably hated the sun.

Now that this step was done, she could finally start on the actual technique that she was meaning to learn in the first place! Hurray! She couldn’t wait, although it was a gory technique, or so it sounded like a gory technique, she was still determinated to learn it, as one of her ‘emergency’ techniques, just encase something bad would happen and she would need to use it. But Ishi didn’t really have many instances she could think of where she would, except for maybe the next round, if it was very dangerous. But if some things went out of hands, a Chuunin examiner could step in.. right? Ishi hoped so, since well, just encase things got a little bit too ugly.

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Barahoippu (Rose Whip)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A user may use a Rose as a whip after lengthening the whip.
Special: As long as the user holds onto the rose and uses Barabuki (Rose Weapon) the user may change flexibility of the Rose without aditional handseals.
Drawback: ---
Description: After using Baratake (Rose Length) on a weapon the user may change the flexibility of the stem of the rose. The user holds onto the bud of the rose as the rose stem changes becoming more flexible. The user may also use the thorns of the whip as sharp tacks to sheer off skin or clothing that the whip attaches to. The size of the whip may grow up to nine feet in length.
Limit: Must know Baratake (Rose Length)

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And now the real training would begin, where she would finally learn the technique that she had been chasing after for a while. Now was the time, and there was no time like the present, right? She grins to herself at the saying, and then takes a deep breath before beginning to use the technique. She would turn to the side a little bit, away from the rose bush, and towards a random palm tree that she would choose to be her victim, looking up at the large leaves, which, sadly held no coconut inside, and then back at the trunk, which would be where she would probably make the seeds send into the tree, since it was well, the easiest place to send them, since putting them into the leaves might be all well and good, but she figured that by placing them in the trunk, they might grow upwards, maybe..

Shrugging lightly at the idea, she then, using both the chakra which was found inside the rose, and her knowledge of wood release, begin to send the seeds which were in the bud which she was holding on, down into the thorns of the rose where they would then, once becoming in contact with something, would send the seeds into whatever it had landed on. In this instance, it would be the bark. Nodding, she does what she was planning to do, looking at the stem as she does so. As she pushed the seeds down using the chakra found in the rose, there wasn’t much change to it externally, no change at all almost, but inside, it was a weapon ready to be used. Smiling slightly at the newly-changed rose, the seeds now in the thorns of her whip, she grins again, and prepares.

Ishi then quickly spins a little bit, and slaps the rose-whip on the bark of the tree, on the trunk, the thorns now digging into the bark with it’s newly-found strength from the ‘rose weapon’ technique that she had used a few minutes ago. A small creaking noise came from the tree as it hit the bark, and afterwards, Ishi begins to ponder slightly on what she should do next. The next step would be simply to perform the handseals for the rose seeds to burst and start to grow inside the tree. Ishi tried to imagine the tree as a person, but the image in her head was slightly.. well, sickly. So, she simply thinks of it as a tree, and keeps it at that. Nothing more, nothing less. If the tree was hurt, she could simply grow other trees, right? Nodding to herself at that, a wave of relief came over her, as she then lets go of her grip on the whip, and forms the handseals which were needed.

With a few more creaks from the bark of the tree, the seeds which were implanted into the brown armour of the plant begins to.. break a little bit, as some weird sounds could be heard from inside the trunk, and then, with another creak, a rose tendril seeped out from the tree, and twisted around the trunk, the thorns digging into the very bark of the tree. She felt sorry now, knowing the disastrous effects of the technique, although she knew that it would be good if she would be able to use it to her own whim- Although, as she had said many times before, she would only use it for the powers of good and in a bad situation, she wasn’t really planning to go around killing various people for no really good reasons. Ishi believed that even if they were awful people, they still had a reason as to why they should be able to live.

”Woah..” she mutters quietly, looking as the rose bush continued to be created from the now slightly messy looking appearance of what appeared to once be a tree, the rose lines flying all around it, turning into a real rose bush, a garden even, by some standards. Ishi would just look in wonder as the technique did it’s work. If it was a person.. Let’s just say that things wouldn’t really be very pretty, not pretty at all. Well.. Maybe interesting for Ishi, but it would probably be horrible and blisteringly painful for the person who she would use the technique on, to have roses grow under your skin.. It sounded like quite a devastating and painful technique just by the description, but looked worse in real life, as Ishi could just picture the tree infront of her being a fellow Shinobi. She shakes her head, shuddering a little bit.

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Shunshin no Jutsu, 瞬身の術, (Body Flicker Technique)
Rank: "C" Rank
Type: NinJutsu
Effect: This jutsu is a high-speed movement technique, allowing a ninja to move short distances at an almost untraceable speed. To an observer, it appears as if the user has teleported. This technique allows a user to move from one point to another at speeds double of their speed potential of up to ten meters.
Special: ---
Drawback The user is only capable of doing this three Times per day after learning it the first time. Each time learned the user is capable of going into this multiple times. Each time learned the user is capable using this technique an extra turn per day. If the user uses this technique more then stated, the user's muscles will cramp and render the user unable to run about and move period.
Description: This jutsu is a high-speed movement technique, allowing a ninja to move short distances at an almost untraceable speed. To an observer, it appears as if the user has teleported. A puff of smoke is occasionally used to disguise the user's movements. It is accomplished by using chakra to temporarily boost the user's reflexes. The amount of chakra required depends on the overall distance between the user and their intended destination.
Limit: User must have a Character.

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Once she had learned the technique to do with creating a large rose bush on someone- Or, something, Ishi quickly turns to the side. She wasn’t done with training yet, having plenty of time to train. She had about.. two days left, right? Enough to learn in, more than enough, that is. She tilts her head towards the sands, and then jogs to it, the soles of her feet immediately warming up a little bit by the sands which were practically drenched in sunlight. She would smile at the sea, and then look up at the sky, at the sun which was still high in the sky, shining as always. Sea country was pretty nice, much different from the Leaf, yet nice at the same time, although she still missed the leaf, the different trees all over the place and the constant nice and calm breeze.. The idea of home made her ever so slightly teary, but she simply shakes her head, and begins to concentrate on learning the next technique.

She would be learning to use body flicker ability. She was able to use four now, but she could always use more, since it would be useful in the future, wouldn’t it? It would be even more useful if she would learn more of them also, to be able to use.. twenty of them would be pure heaven, you could just body flicker all over the place in a fight unknowingly to the opponent, unless they were able to figure out where you were body flickering and so on. But at the moment, all she wanted to do was learn more of them to further her knowledge of the technique. And to further her knowledge she would need to re-train this technique again and again and again to make her muscles cope with the stress that was placed on them, to be able to allow her to use more body flickers per day.

Plants and trees continued to blur past her as she sprinted along the warm, toasty sands, her shoes now on so that she wouldn’t land on glass or a shell or something and hurt her feet. Running on sand was quite a challenge itself, but even with this technique, and on sand she was still fast. Maybe it was like another advantage of some sort. Nonetheless, she still found this technique to be awesome, figuring that it had many advantages to it, mostly because she could well, run quickly, but also because it could help her escape from sticky situations. But the only disadvantage she could think of was the limit of body flickers you could use per day, and if you passed it, your muscles would become stiff, and refrain you from moving. That wouldn’t be very nice.

Ishi couldn’t really believe how awful it would be not to move. Ishi was a very active person, and would hate to be stuck in the same place for a while, unmoving- Sure, staying in the same place, for instance, one area or a place like her clearing, but being able to run around and things, that was all good and fine, but if she was glued to one spot, and told not to move.. Ishi wouldn’t be able to do that. As quiet and polite as she looked, she wouldn’t be able to spend a day without moving. Not ever. Never ever never ever never. ”Hm..” she murmurs, thinking about a few things as she then slows her pace, now running normally across the sands, her vision looking at the water. She could swear that she saw a dolphin or so in the distance jump up.

But maybe her eyes were just playing tricks on her. She had never seen a dolphin before, never in the leaf. The most exotic animal she found there was probably a parrot or something. She grins to herself, laughing slightly, before shaking her head, and pausing, taking a small moment to rest and look at the calm waters of the sea which surrounded the island, the cool breeze hitting her face, cooling her down. She brings her right hand up, and wipes her brow a little bit with the fabric of her sleeve, and then brings it down once more, breaking into another run almost instantly after she did that. It hadn’t been a long break, but for Ishi, it was enough.

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Mokuton Soutei Hashira (Wood Release - Binding Pillars)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A technique where branches is pushed from the ground and wraps around an opponent.
Special: "Boar, Dragon, Ram, Boar"
Drawback: This technique is the basics of other techniques. The user must learn this technique multiple times in order for the distance of branches can increases.
Description: After using the seals the user uses the water and earth release in which branches crushes out of the ground to wrap around the user. When the user first learns this technique the user is capable of creating approximatly Six Different branches with a width of six inches, with the distance of Ten Meters From the user. Every time learned the distance may increase by an additional ten Meters. When the distance reaches up to a Hundred Meters the type of training becomes B-Rank Training. When the distance reaches Two Hundred Meters the Training becomes A-Rank. When the user reaches to B-Rank Training the width of branches is Twelve Inches if the user desires. When the Training Reaches A-Rank the width of the branches is Twenty Four Inches if the user desires. Each time learned the user is capable of creating another branch.
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She then steps off the hot, toasty sands, and back on to the slightly moist ground, moist of course from the warmth in the jungle which was in the centre of the island, with the heat evaporating and turning into drops of water- Or, that’s what she figured was happening, she had learned a few things in academy to do with the process of water evaporating- Or was it with her adoptive parents? Ishi wasn’t quite sure, and had forgotten, but, she knew that it was something like that, atleast. Ishi was an expert in plants, not in the life circle of water, or whatever you could call it. ”Right, time to learn another wood technique..” she tells herself, nodding lightly. She loved to train wood, it was one of her favourite releases to train- Well, it was her favourite element to train.

Mostly since it had to do with plants, and Ishi was practically adopted into a family where farming was the main importance alongside to being a shinobi, and she had learned many things from them to do with plant life and farming. Maybe she should learn herblore, that was like farming, right? Just with different herbs. She wasn’t quite sure if it branched off to making potions, but guessed that it would, due to the fact that herbs were commonly used as healing or special potions you could use in battle, or to help people. You could also make you own potions.. That would be great, since Ishi was always open to learning new things to do with farming and everything to do with planting things in the ground.

”Anyway..” she mutters, taking a deep breath before starting to begin. She would be learning ‘binding pillars’ a technique which caused branches to come out of the ground and wrap around the opponent whom she was fighting. It was another stalling technique, she knew a few of them now, and when used in conjunction with her grass silencer technique, it would be pretty great. Grinning, she begins, looking at another palm tree which she hadn’t trained on, and decides that there is where she would be training. ”This should be easy..” she tells herself, looking at the tall palm which stood infront of her, and then begins to use the handseals needed for the technique. Boar, Dragon, Ram, Boar. she mutters, looking grievingly at the palm tree.

She then begins to concerntrate on the earth, combining both her ability of wood, and her ability to use water release, to attempt to make branches appear from the earth to entangle around the tree, which was her foe in this instance. This technique was quite an easy one, but still, she would need to put all of her concerntration in it if she was to learn the technique. And concerntrate she does, narrowing her honeyish-green coloured eyes at the wooden bark of the palm tree which stood tall infront of her- Well, very tall. It overtowered the young Shinobi by quite a few feet. But most things usualy did, although Ishi was fine with being short, it had some advantages, but also had some disadvantages. Usually, she could sometimes be mistaken for someone younger than her, and Ishi wasn't too fond of that- But who liked to be thought of as 12 on accident anyway? Sure, it was alright if she wanted to get into somewhere for cheaper, but when people thought that she was twelve or something and guessed her height to just make fun of her, she diddn't really like being short with that.

The earth began to part around the tree, as slowly, tips of branches began to poke out, and grow up, revealing branches upon branches which then begin to entangle the tree, wrapping around it in a capitvating manner. It was weird to watch the branches wrap around the tree, since well, branches usualy diddn't do that. Upon closer inspection, she noticed that there seemed to be.. six branches wrapping around the tree, or, six branches or less. She wasn't quite sure due to the fact that they were all wrapped around the tree, therefore a little bit hard to see how many were there. It was a jumble of branches, all wrapped around in a messy heap around the towering palm tree. "Oooh." she murmurs quietly, slightly mezmorized by the thin branches which tangled around the poor tree infront of her. Ishi was trying to imagine the tree as a person, and from what she imagined, it should be able to tangle them pretty well.

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Mokuton: Mokuzaihato no Jutsu (Wooden Box)
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect:The user traps an object within a wooden box.
Special:Ram, Monkey, Tiger
Drawback: The box is made out of wood, so is weak to most jutsu types and can be easy to break through with taijutsu.
Description: The user performs the handseals and traps an object of their discretion in a wooden box created by the Mokuton no Jutsu. This box is thin, about half an inch in thickness, and as such is easily broken though. Players can be trapped inside boxes, but as one of the requirements of the jutsu, they have six inches from every part of their body to move within the box (six inches to the right, left, and above, that is. A player would be standing on the bottom).
Limit:Mokuton no Jutsu

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"Now to.. create.. wooden boxes.." she tells herself, nodding. There wasn't much point to making wooden boxes, but, hey she might need to use it in the future if she needs to trap people or some things in a box. And who diddn't like having boxes around to keep things in? Well, Ishi had no things to really put in boxes, since she had no home and no clutter to clean or organize. Sometimes she wished she had a home of some sort, but hey, some things you just can't get, right? Maybe if she'd buy one.. But she diddn't have enough. She had enough to rent rooms in inns in Konoha, but she had to constantly pay, and the beds and rooms weren't that nice and luxurious anyway, so it was better to pay nothing and sleep outside, despite the fact that people would come to think of her as a sort of tramp or something. If Ishi was a tramp, she would probably be the richest tramp around.

Although, in other ways she was poor, of course, not being able to afford many types of things, but she could afford food and weaponry, so she was happy with that. Shaking her head, she begins to concerntrate on the main reason as to why she came to this small part of the beach- To train, of course. And she would now continue her training regime, figuring that she had spent enough time doing nothing and just thinking about boxes, now was time for the physical work in which she would try to create a wooden box. She would just need to trap something. Looking around for a few moments, she takes off one of her pouches which were on her belts, and places it on the floor, and looks at it for a few moments before begining to perform the handseals needed. Hopefully, in the end she would have trapped her pouch in a wooden box, created by herself. Grinning, she continues.

Ram, Monkey, Tiger. her hands would weave into those symbols quickly, and she would then begin to concerntrate on the pouch, attempting to create a four-sided box around it which she could trap it in- Why would she want to trap it? She could easily break it though, right? It wasn't that high ranked of a technique, so it should be quite easy to break through the wood to be able to get her pouch back, since it contained important things. The most important begin her precious, precious bottle of sake. Oh she did love it so. It had been a while now since she had drunk though, maybe she should drink a little bit later to celebrate her passing this round of the chuunins. Smirking lightly at the idea, she shakes her head. It would be better to be sober on this island, just incase something woudl happen and she would need to be sober to well, defend herself or something, since with numerous nin of many different countries across the place, you couldn't be sure about who was friend and who was foe.

"I have to make that box.." she tells herself, looking at the pouch as she continues to focus and narrow her eyes down at it. She could do better than this, this was taking ages! Twitching a little bit, the young girl would further her concerntrating, determined to learn this technique quickly. She would then take a deep breath, and continue to focus on her pouch, nothing much was happening yet, but she was hoping that she would be able to make atleast something happen. Slowly, after a bit of concerntrating deeply on the subjects of wood release and boxes, a sort of.. wooden.. part began to grow around the pouch which was placed on the earth. "Is it forming into a box..?" she asks herself, looking as it thickens if just by a little bit, and then continues to grow further over the pouch, surrounding it with wood. The box seemed to be working, but, would it cover all of the box or would it just well, stop..? Only time would tell.

The wood around the pouch continued to form, now forming some sort of fine-looking box shape. It had formed nicely, and was now.. a box, right? She kneels down a little bit, stopping her concerntration on the jutsu, and picks it up, looking at it. It was light, but Ishi shook it a little bit, and was able to hear the pouch inside moving about. She tilts her head around the box, examining it from all angles. It was a pretty good one. The wood was weak, though, but, hey it would do the job for now, right? Shaking the box a little bit more, she was slightly puzzled as to.. how she would get her pouch out of said box. Placing it back on the floor, she would look at her gloves for a few moments. Her knuckles were covered by fabric, so if she would just punch the box with her strength.. would it work? Worth a try. And with that, the Kunoichi brings her arm back, and then pounds it into the ground to the box, smashing it in a flurry of spliners. She then, dodging the sharp points of wood, picks up her pouch, and wipes the sawdust and splinters off it, before placing it back on the many of her belts.

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Doton: Deido Kame Souken no Jutsu (Earth Release: Mud Turtle Creation Technique)
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu Supp or Defensive It all depends on how you use it.
Effect: Creates a large snapping turtle out of mud.
Special: Dog, Rat, Ox
Drawback: Turtle is slow on land, but fast moving on water. Must have enough mud to create.
Description: Using Deido Bunshin no Jutsu you create a large turtle. The process is the same as making a clone, but the clone is shaped into a large snapping turtle. It can be used as a transport over water to decrease travel time. It can also be used to bite an opponent and hold them, or as something to take the blow of your attack. The amount of time the turtle will last depends on your ninja rank/class.
D Ranked Ninja: Turtle can last around three-four posts depending on chakra.
C Ranked Ninja: Turtle can last around five-seven posts depending on chakra.
B Ranked Ninja: Turtle can last around eight-ten posts depending on chakra.
A Ranked Ninja: Turtle can last around eleven-thirteen posts depending on chakra.
S Ranked Ninja: Turtle can last around fourteen-fifteen posts depending on chakra.
The turtle can be destroyed before you reach the post limit. The turtle is immune against fire releases because it is muddy and moist. Earth style seems to crack at it the most.
D ranked ninja make the weakest turtles, S ranked ninjas make the strongest. Its shell is the strongest part of its body. ONLY ONE TURTLE AT A TIME CAN BE MADE! The turtles weigh approx... 300 pounds and are around three-five feet wide, and around four-six feet long. Turtle can also be used as a Deido Bunshin Jisatsu no Jutsu as well.
Limit: Must know Earth Release. User must also know Mud Clone Technique.

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Ishi would then look at the jungle infront of her. She knew well about what she was going to do, just, she would need to perform one technique first before she would be able to learn it. It was another C-Ranked technique that she would learn, one of the earth variety since she hadn't learned an earth technique in a while now, so she decided that she would learn an earth technique. She would be learning how to create a turtle. Yes, a turtle, you heard her. Ishi liked tortoises and turtles, they were quite.. cute. If that was the word to describle them, especially the really huge tortoises, giant tortoises, were they called? She wasn't quite sure, but they reminded her of the phrase 'Gentle Giants' since they were so big, but didn’t really hurt humans. She'd figured that the best way they could attack you would be to accidentally step on your foot or something. But she also knew that there were types of snapping turtles which could bite, Ishi wasn't that fond of them.

But, all turtles were cute anyway, or so Ishi thought. Turtles and Tortoises. She smiles to herself, and begins, forming the handseals for the mud field technique. She didn't need a lot of mud, just enough to create well, a mud turtle from. She wasn't quite sure about how much exactly she would need, but figured not that much, one mud field technique should do it. Rat, Dog, Boar. she would weave the handseals gracefully, slam her hands down on the floor, and then, begin to concentrate on the earth, trying to manipulate it, sending a small amount of her charkra in it. A few moments later, with a small pouf sound, some of the earth in the jungle near her changed from moist earth to slippery, thick mud, fit for trapping people or something. Grinning, she then kneels down, smelling the nice smell of mud. It had been one that Ishi grew up with, so she didn’t think that it was awful like most people did, the damp smell of earth was nice to her.

"Now to make the turtles.." Ishi tells herself, looking at the mud, yawning lightly, and getting up once more, ready to train again. "I'l need to make the handseals and then make the turtle like I do with a clone.." she states, telling herself of the mission briefing. Ehehe. She then nods to herself, and then begins to use the needed handseals; Dog, Rat, Ox. they were made, and she would then begin to concentrate on the mud, wanting to make some mud clones.. but make them look like turltes- Well, one turtle, knowing well that she was only able to make one at a time, but that was fine, although it would be awesome to be able to create loads of mud-turtles, into some sort of personal army. That would be awesome as Ishi would describe it. She would continue to send some of her chakra into the earth, trying to make clones.

After a little bit more of concentration, she would notice a few poufs appearing from the mud which she had created. As the smoke which appeared from the technique she had just performed cleared, you could notice that there seemed to be a foreign shape lying in the mud. It looked like.. a large, flat rock, although Ishi wasn't quite sure what it was because it's colour seemed to blend ever so slightly with the mud which it had arised from. Upon squinting her eyes a little bit to give her a little bit more ability to look at the figure, she would notice that it seemed to be a turtle, it wiggled a little bit in the mud as she examined it. So.. like with clones.. Did she control them by mental thoughts? She wasn't quite sure, since this was almost a totally different thing to clones- Well, shape and ability-wise, but, it still branched off that technique, right? She could at least try.

And with that, she would attempt to make the turtle move across the mud and go on to land. After a few moments concerntration, the mud-turtle flapped it's fins- Or arms, whatever you may call them, and began to slide on to the ground, snapping it's beak a little bit as it does so, in an intimidating manner. Ah well, it couldn't hurt her since she was the one giving the orders, and all it had to do was follow. If it went against it's master's orders, that would be quite weird, it would be like a clone going all weird and backing away from whoever had created it to help the enemy, that would be really, really weird. "I see.. How cute." she coo's, looking as the turtle looks about, and continues to slide, now approaching the ground. She would then walk over to the turtle, wanting to try something out. She would then sit on the large shell of the turtle, finding it funny, sitting on a turtle and all. It wasn't every day that you had the chance to do that, wasn't it? It took her weight, but, Ishi was quite a light person, so, meh.

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Deido Nohara no Jutsu (Mud Field)
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Causes the area (10m x 10m) around the user, given that it is some sort of sand, dust, dirt, or weak stone, to become mud.
Special: Rat, Dog, Boar
Drawback: It does not work in certain environments, such as tile and metallic floors.
Description: After the hand signs are performed, the user slams his/her hands into the ground. If the environment allows it, the area around the user will become a thick and heavy mud. No chakra is required to maintain the state of the area.
Limit: Earth Release, Water Release

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Moku Bunshin (Wood Clone)
Rank: "B" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The user creates a clone made out of wood that would be used for battle against opponents.
Special: "Ox, Dragon, Ram, Ox"
Drawback: If the wood is burned they will not be capable of working.
Description: When first learned the user is capable of creating three clones that are within the size of Medium size. The wood looks similar to that of a human but the wood is wrapped around the body torso and switched around making the clone look that of a giant tree with awkward shapes. A wood clone is able to use wood techniques.
Limit: Must have the Wood Release

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"Now that I've learned another type of earth clone I think I should learn a wood type of clone.." Ishi knew well that wood clones took a bit more training to learn, but Ishi was up for it. She was the type of girl who, if she'd start learning something, she won't cease until she would have learned it, and wouldn't skip to learn another technique. And now that she would start to learn this time, she wouldn't stop at all until she would learn the technique and master it. Grinning to herself, she turns away from the mud field, and to a blank space of earth without mud on it. Then noticing that she was still sitting on the turtle, with a small; 'Eep' she gets off, then expelling it, as it dissapears in a pouf of white smoke. She looks at where it was, sighing a little bit, missing the large turtle already with it's cute flippers and large shell which was nice to sit on. You would expect the turtle to be squished, but it simply withstood her miniscule weight.

Next she would need to think about some of the clones. Would wood clones be the same as other, normal ones? Or would they be different? Ishi was quite unsure about that, since she had never seen wood clones before, but figured that it would be like normal ones.. just like wood, right? She had no clue about what to expect, but hoped that they would be pretty normal looking, since if they were weird, it would give away that they were clones- Not that people couldn't notice that they weren't clones already. Some people were able to sense that they were clones at first sight, but diddn't you need to be a part of a special clan of some sort to do that? Ishi wasn't born into a clan, she was just.. Ishi kishiko, homeless person of the Leaf, wooh! Who had the abilities to plant yummy-tasting fruit and veg. That was one nice clan technique that she had.

"Hahaha.." Ishi laughs at that thought of her being in the Kishiko clan which specified in planting seeds. That would be pretty weird, and a pretty useless clan at that, but, she liked her surname, it was nice and went nicely with her name- Or so she believed anyway. She had no clue about what other people thought of her surname, but hoped that they would like it, naturally because well, it wasn't that nice to have people make fun of your name, since you couldn't help it if you were called in that way, right? She could change her surname.. But she was proud of her surname and happy to be a Kishiko, although it's other members were currently lost, or, Ishi had no clue who the other-other members were, namely her adoptive-parents parents. She had no clue who they were, or if they were still alive, but, she hoped they were all good and well, wherever they were.

Where were they now and what releases could they use? As a child, she never really had the chance to ask these questions, and wasn't that interested in the life of the shinobi since her great interest in farm-life, but now wished that she had taken if but a little bit more interest in nin techniques, maybe she would be stronger if she was. Ishi wasn't quite sure, trying to think of her life now if she had joined the academy at a younger age. Would she be more intelligent? And would she know more techniques? Or would everything be the same? Ishi was not sure at all about that, but figured that she'd still be some sort of a ninja, even though she might be still farming, or would be better at being a ninja all around since she had passed Academy at a younger age.. But if you were older and passed, didn’t that mean that you could remember the techniques that you learned? Hmm. She would have to think about that, wouldn't she.

Still, although she had passed Academy, yes, and had managed to pass the last two exams, she still thought of herself as weak though. She wasn't quite sure about when she would become 'strong' but hoped that it would be soon, simply for the fact that she well, wanted to become better at what she wanted to be, a ninja- Although maybe farming was second on her list.. at the moment, being a shinobi was practically the only meaning of her life at the moment, and she would go through whatever means she had to be come a good, fine Leaf nin, as long as it was humane and included not killing people for absolutely no reason. She knew well that to be a perfect, country-abiding ninja she would have to be devoid to her emotions and kill people whom were the enemies of the leaf, from stone country, or something, but Ishi just couldn't do that, it was cruel, since it wasn't their fault at all that well, the two countries were feuding and against each other.

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"Wood.." would be the only thing that she would tell herself next, thinking about it for a few moments. She would need to use her ability to manipulate wood to use this technique, to create the clones needed. She had been using wood for a while now- Well, altogether, not all at the same time that is. She was pretty sure that she was doing better in wood release than any of her other ones. Mostly she figured since she had a passion for growing wood and the like. Maybe, after the exams or in the next break, although she diddn't think there was one, just maybe she would then begin to train the dreaded fire release and try to learn a few more techniques in it. She knew that she didn’t want to master it, but it was nice to have a few fire techniques around just incase it was an emergency and she needed to use it, right?

But otherwise, the two releases which she wanted to master in the future would be earth and wood for sure, but she wasn't quite sure about the third one. Should she learn another release, or stick with the ones she has? She knew that she was able to train one more, but young Ishi had no clue at all as to if she should learn another one. There were many different kinds of releases, she knew that, but just, there were too many to choose from, wind, sound, and so on. Too much choice for poor little Ishi.

"Maybe, Yes, I should learn another one when I get back.." she ponders, tilting her ginger little head to the side as she thinks about the matter. Maybe she should ask Megumi or Hiroko as to which one they think she should learn. Or should she master both Earth and Wood first, and learn more techniques from water and fire before she learns another one? That would make some sense, due to the fact that it would be less for her to train later though, but, there were always new wood and earth techniques being made from people around the world, so there would always be new things to learn.. Unless she would learn every wood technique that there is.

But that would take quite a while, or so she thought. To be able to fully master wood, and be able to use all of the techniques would be awesome, And Ishi was just under halfway or something? She was a little bit clueless on this matter since she diddn't know how many wooden techniques there were availiable to be able to be learned, and she couldn't really count how many she had learned, since it had been a few. She could remember training her A and S ranked wood techniques, so, that was about.. half of a quarter of the techniques down, right? Smiling to herself sheepishly, she then grins, and looks back at the trees which were around her, continuing to try and make the wood clones which she was aiming towards creating.

"Clones.." she would add, finishing the first word she had said a few moments ago. She knew how to make normal clones, water clones, and mud clones, these clones would add to the family of types of clones which she knew how to create, Hmm. Elemental clones were great, since they were ever so slightly stronger than the normal clone techniques you would learn at academy, and they were well, cool to learn and all, since they were made from elements, not pure chakra, or some chakra. Maybe she should learn mist clone or rock clones.. She knew that these types of clone existed, but she hadn't learned them yet, and wasn't quite sure if she should or not, but, learning them couldn't be bad, right?

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"So basically.. just.. clones but made out of wood, right?" she asks, reassuring herself that that was how it was made. Would the clones look like trees, or would they look like normal well, clones, just with a brownish tinge? Hm. That was a thing to think about, since, if they would turn out looking a little bit like trees, that would be a little bit weird, since it wasn't like water clones turned just puddles on the floor. But, nonetheless, Ishi was willing to learn the technique, and hopefully, learn it she shall! She grins to herself, and nods, turning her gaze from the palms to the nice blue sky once more, the clouds passing around, but, they were not clouds of storm or rain, just pure white fluffy clouds, the nice types that wou would like to see around.

The beach was nice now, although a tide was starting to roll in, a sure sign that time had passed and that it was about.. 6PM now..? Ishi wasn't quite sure, but she had been training all day, so she had lost track of time a little bit. Ehehe. She laughs lightly to herself at her stupidity, and then continues to look at the golden sands which covered the area which she was in- Although Ishi was standing at the jungle's edge, where there was normal earth for her to use for her techniques. It was a pity that she didn’t have a camera, then she could take some pictures to bring back to the Leaf with her, since it's not all the time that you have the chance to go to sea country, and the place was so different, it would be humorous to look at the picture, and then back at the Leaf itself.

Maybe she should buy a camera. She had heard of shops selling sort of spy-glasses, but, Ishi wasn't a spy and if she was caught wearing those wouldn't people think she was a spy? Ishi didn’t really want that, so for now she would have to try and remember the island off her memory, and not off a picture, unless she could draw the beach scene, but, the young Kishiko wasn't that good at drawing, so it would be hard to figure out what was what. Trees would probably end up looking like flags, the sea; a blanket, and the sand some butter. Ehehehe. She grins to herself, and looks at the sun which was still in the air, but seemed to be lowering a little bit. She squints her eyes, since, although it was going to fade away into the night soon, it was still pretty well, vibrant.

Turning her gaze back to the slightly moist earth beneath her feet, the young girl would go on another of her infamous tangents, wondering about if she could create a huge wood clone, by huge she meant huge. It would be big and strong, fit for smashing down things if she wanted it to- But then again, why would she want to smash buildings down? That would be pretty mean and all, wrecking someones house without consent. Not that she guessed people would let you knock down their houses with consent. Unless they wanted to move house and wanted to wreck the old one for no reason, but still, nah, the idea of a huge wood Ishi wouldn't be that good due to the danger of the technique, although the young girl had learned two wooden killing techniques up to now.

But, she would like to become a little bit taller anyway. A wood clone might help.. Or maybe she should just make a pair of wooden stilts if there was a technique allowing you to do that. She guessed not due to the fact that well, who would make a technique to do with making wooden stilts? It was a little bit stupid of a technique, but, useful if you needed to use it.. Ishi pauses, tilting her head to the side, then begining to think that maybe she should try to make her own technique, but she would need a scroll and something to write in it to remind herself of how to learn it. Ehehe. Huge.. Ishi clone. Nope, scrap that idea. She wouldn't be using that. Anyway, Ishi was one to follow and learn techniques, not make them herself. If she did, they would probably turn out faulty or something.

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