|Shouran and Kaou's Chuunin Blitz|

[Shouran]

Kugutsu no Jutsu, 傀儡の術 (Puppet Technique)
Rank: "D" ; "C" ; "B" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The Ability where the user controls a puppet with strings of chakra. The puppet is capable of attacking an opponent with any weapons hidden inside of it. This technique is effective from long distances since the chakra strings can extend; they are also invisible, so the puppet can be used from a hidden location.
Special: Must be a Puppeteer
Drawback: Must be learned multiple times in order for the distance to increase. The more objects or Puppets used, the distance decreases, this means that if you have two puppets with a hundred meters of distance each puppet can go at a maximum of fifty meters each.
Description: The user is capable of controlling a puppet depending on the distance of the puppet. If the puppet surpasses a certain distance then the chakra strings simply disconnect leaving the puppet down along the floor. The Chakra strings can not be seen by regular eyes but those who have the capability of seeing chakra can truly notice such a technique. When first learned the technique allows the user a maximum of ten meters of distance. After each time learned the user can increase the distance of Ten Meters. When the user reaches up to a hundred meters then it is harder for a user to gain more distance so the training would go up to a C Rank training as the distance increases Ten Meters every time learned. After three hundred Meters, then the training becomes more difficult once more as the training ranks up to B Rank, at this moment the distance is unlimited.
Limit: Must be known multiple times.

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Leading a small troupe of puppet craftsmen to a training spot, he directed them to place his new arsenal of weapons under a large oak tree before dismissing them back to their shop. “Well…I’ve come this far…” the Kamiuru thought to himself “Guess I gotta learn how to use these things.” He had first gotten the idea to combine mateki songs with puppetry from one of his teachers from the academy. However, before he was able to combine disciplines, he first needed at least a basic understanding of how puppets functioned.

With a giant stack of scrolls at his disposal, a roll of parchment was removed from the pile and unfurled between two outstretched arms. Wrapped around the wooden spool was all the secrets of the basic puppetry techniques he would need to operate his new creations. Studious optics scanned the kanji copied onto the text, absorbing all the information the primer had to offer.

For the puppetry technique to be successful, Shouran would need to learn to spin strings of chakra from his fingers and attach them to a puppet. With a deep breath, the scroll was wound back around the spindle. Calling on the chakra housed within his tenketsu, he pulled the energy from the invisible network of coils intertwined with his body. Gathering the chakra into his hands, he felt them tingle with the accumulation of energy. Contorting his face into a mask of deep concentration, the boy attempted to push the chakra through his fingers into an invisible thread.

His hands began to shake with strain as he struggled to spin the invisible tendrils. The harder he tried, the more difficult breaching the skin on his fingers became. With a final exasperated sigh, he gave up and stopped the flow of chakra. Maybe he was trying too hard. His mind drifted back to his time at the academy when his beloved music teacher taught him to mold chakra through the notes played on his flute. She always told him the same thing when he strained himself while he tried to master a technique. “Relax. Just believe in your success and play the notes. The chakra will flow effortlessly if you just take your mind off of forcing it into your songs.”

Of course, he wasn’t playing a melody on his flute…though the words of wisdom could help him in this situation. If he focused less on pushing chakra through his fingers, and more on creating a string that stretched to her puppet, maybe he would have more success. After another deep breath, his hands were held outstretched in front of his body. A gentle flow of chakra floated through his body as he imagined a long string of energy slowly making its way towards the pile of puppets under the tree. As his eyes traced the imaginary tendril snaking across the ground, his heart nearly skipped a beat as the male puppet twitched as the string made contact. Eyes wide, he gave tug on the string, pulling a limp arm to flop onto the ground. “Yes!”

[→ Alterity]

+ 10

[kaou]

0/5

Flower Preservation
Rank: E
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Preserves a flower to keep it from wilting/shriveling/dying for one week. Drawback- If the flower leaves the users possession it will wilt with five minutes.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Using chakra they infuse the flower with their own chakra giving the flower something to feed off of and stay alive. As long as the flower remains in the users possession it will not wilt but the technique must be used again within one week or the flower will die.
Limit: Hanakora Clan

It was a warm day, the breeze blowing very gently across the face of the young Hanakora Prince, brother to the famed Kusakage Hanako Hotaru, who was named Kaou. The heat of the sun washed over the boy's face as he made his way out and about through the lands of Kusa no Kuni, specifically within the more empty spaces of Kusagakure no Sato. Kaou wasn't exactly sure what he wanted to do right now. He was incredibly bored, and he felt like he was wasting time doing nothing when there was obviously something that he could be doing... like practicing his techniques or something.

Sighing a little bit, he'd kneel down and grasp a flower's stem with his right hand, and then pull it sharply up. He thought that it was strange, how much power and strength that the boy seemed to have over the land, when you considered how small and insignificant the boy was in the whole scheme of things. Looking at the flower, Kaou began to contemplate the life of the flower that he had just so casually ripped out of existence. He knew that it wouldn't be long until the flower completed it's death, withering away, only to decompose and become nutrients for another flower to spring into life.

But did it necessarily have to be like that? The more that Kaou thought about it, the more he disliked this thought. Standing up straight once more, he'd look out and gaze across the horizon. From his vantage point, he saw that there was someone standing a little distance, and Kaou found himself curious. Did the other person share Kaou's same deep thoughts? Shaking his head, Kaou would once more glance down towards the flower, feeling it within his hand before closing his eyes for a moment. He would think back towards the clan scrolls that he had been blessed with viewing years ago.

He could recall the words upon the scroll, describing what was said to be a simple technique that would keep the flowers alive and healthy, with the use of chakra, even after their stems had been detached from their roots. As he thought about it, he began to focus his chakra, feeling the blue energy beginning to bud within the same hand that now held the soon-to-be-dead flower, and then he found himself suddenly shocked to have the idea of implanting the chakra within the flower. As he focused upon this chakra, and began slowly flowing it into the stem, he felt, rather than saw, the flower beginning to pulse once more with the vibrancy of life.

Could healing the harms of humans be this simple as well? Continuing to think on this, and holding the flower, he'd then begin to walk towards the boy that he had spotted earlier, over the horizon. Maybe, just maybe, there'd be some decent, stimulating conversation, although Kaou didn't pray for it. At the most, it would probably just be another Ninja, practicing their techniques just like he was. Maybe he'd like to do that with someone else, too... anything to take his mind off the boredom and the intense thoughts that he was full of now...

[Matsu]

+5

[Shouran]

quote]Surotto Etoku スロットえとく(Slot Understanding)
Rank: "D" ; "C" ; "B" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Slot understanding is the understanding of Slots, the more slots a puppeteer knows the more puppets they can control. This means that if a puppeteer wishes to control a Large Puppet they must know Forty Slots. This means that if a user knows Eighty Slots they can control one Huge Puppet, or One Large Puppet with Two Medium Puppets, or Four Medium Puppets.
Special: Must be a Puppeteer.
Drawback: Must be learned multiple times in order for the person to use more then one puppet. The more puppets you know the smaller distance you have when using The Puppet Technique. A limit though is stopped by how many puppets can be controlled. A Normal Puppet master is only capable of controlling up to Ten Puppets at a time, this means one puppet per finger. The only way a user is capable of controlling more then ten puppets at a time by chakra strings is if they use the Hitokugutsu (Human Puppet) on them self.
Description: A puppeteer automatically knows twenty slots, this enables them to control One Medium sized Puppet or two small sized puppets. The more you go into Slot understanding the more you can control. Each time learned the user learns five more Slots. When the user reaches up to a hundred slots, the it gets harder for a user to use multiple objects and the training raises up to C Rank. When the user reaches up to three hundred slots, then the training goes up another rank of B Rank as the training becomes endless after that.
Limit: Must know Ningyoutsukai Seigyo Keii Chuui Kajuu (Puppeteer Mastery Light and Medium Weight) Along with this. Must be learned multiple times.[/font]

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Though another being had ventured into his training grounds, the Kamizuru paid no attention to the intruder. All of his attention was focused on making his puppets move. After a few more enthusiastic tugs on the arm, it was time to learn how to control the humanoid puppets. Pulling more string from his chakra reserves, the tendrils snaked through the grass and attached to the wooden form of the warriors body. Five strings found their place attached to various places on his body, including the back of his head and on each limb.

Pulling back with a perhaps over dramatic gesture, the mangled heap of wood lurched into the air. Falling to the ground with a clatter, the model warrior lay in a heap with a vacant smile carved onto his face. Pulling up with his hand, he lifted the strings attached to the back of his head and arms into the air, causing the marionette to dangle helplessly just centimeters from the ground.

Holding the puppet up in the air, the puppeteers fingers twitched ever so slightly, causing the weapon to drift forward. With subtle movements of his fingers, Shouran had managed to figure out the dynamics of minimal control over his puppet. However, in this sad state, the doll was suited for little else other than cheap children’s entertainment. Attempting to spin a bit more thread from his fingers, he wanted to see if he could control two at once. Pushing the strings onto the limbs of one of the female humanoid puppets, the strings would simply spark and fizzle out when he attempted to move them.

He wasn’t ready yet. Not for something as “advanced’’ as multiple puppets at a time. At least, nothing as big and as complicated as his humanoid marionette set. Turning his attention to small wooden insects, Shouran gently set Raiden in the grass before spinning a new set of strings to attach to the hornet. With one of the 3 E ranked puppets caught in his figurative grip, the Kamizuru gingerly pulled backwards with his hands, dislodging the bumblebee from the pile of mangled wooden appendages. After pulling the kirabi closer, she realized this puppet was much easier to control than Raiden, probably due to its size.

Sending even more strings woven from chakra into the pile benieth the oak tree, a forceful yank loosed the other two puppets. Forming them into a line, the novice puppeteer attached a few strings to each of their bodies. A few subtle jerks of his finger and the insects seem to spring to life for a moment. It seemed his limit was at controlling extremely small puppets or a single medium sized one. . . but his handling of either weight class was shoddy at best. What he needed was speed. He needed power. He needed. . . more training.

[Matsu]

+10

[kaou]

Hana Bunshin no jutsu (flower clone)
Rank: D
Skill:: Ninjutsu
Effect:: Creates a clone from Flowers
Special::handseals
Drawback:: Obviously if hit with fire or lighting, the flowers will be destroyed, thus the destruction of the clone and the ability to use the flowers afterwards.
Description::: After forming handseals, flowers from around the user begin to swirl and form together. It takes at least 10 hanakora flowers for the chakra to network and form a perfect clone. Other flowers can be used, but since this technique was designed for hanakora flowers it requires 50 regular flowers. Being made of flowers, these clones will disintegrate after a single hit. After they fall apart, the flowers can still be used in flower jutsu.
Limit:: hanako clan

As Kaou observed the interesting kid in front of him, playing with the most strange and perverse method of chakra manipulation that he had ever seen, he couldn't help but wonder if the young person understood the grotesqueness of manipulation of another thing's body without its' consent... and then he couldn't help but wonder if the boy would even care about something as silly as the right's of an inanimate object. And why should he care? It's not as if the wooden object, shaped so as to be in the appearance of another human, could utter a protest, could it?

What Kaou did was much worse. He actually killed things; plants, beautiful flowers, put upon the earth for the enjoyment of those around him, and he, the sadistic one, turned their beauty into weapons of destruction. It was ironic, how something so small and fragile could be hardened with the use of spiritual power to form into the dangerous objects that they were. However, it was probably because Kaou was watching the boy work with another human-shaped object that he began to get the idea of manipulating some flowers into becoming humanoid once more.

After all, was it not the basic principles of cloning techniques that you could create a clone from practically anything? Why not flowers? The more he thought about it, the more that Kaou found that the idea appealed to him. Narrowing his eyes, he'd glance around to see if there were any usable flowers, but of course, fate wouldn't ever make such training easy for him. Uttering a sigh, he'd reach into his pockets and pull out a bag full of seeds. Then, turning his eyes towards the boy to see if he was watching, Kaou would then open the bag and toss out a great deal of seeds towards the ground.

As the seeds scattered upon the ground, Kaou would place his hands through a number of routine seals, performing perhaps the most basic of Hanakora techniques, Haeru. As the chakra begin to surge throughout his body, Kaou would then focus it, directing it towards the seeds, allowing the energy to seep into the tiny shells that contained the beautiful Hanakora flower. It was only then that the seeds, full of blue light, would crack open, revealing a large display of fully bloomed flowers, almost in the shape of clovers, though of a different color as well. As his eyes moved over the flowers, he'd smile.

Now, to get onto work. Shrugging his shoulders to get some blood flowing, he'd then find his mind wandering backwards, through the random scrolls that he'd viewed over his life. He could almost recall, maybe... Biting his lips, he'd then begin to perform a few handseals that seemed familiar. As his fingers moved from one awkward shape to another, he felt his chakra begging to bud, to pardon the pun. The blue energy would fill his body, sending shivers down his spine for a moment. It was then that his chakra would escape from his body, and move it down into the flowers.

The energy there would definitely enter into the flowers, which had only recently sprung into existence. It was now time to put on a show. As the energy moved through the Hanakora flowers, a bit of direction with the chakra would cause them to slowly begin to snap upwards, flying towards the sun. However, they seemed to lack the energy to continue much further beyond his head. It was then, with some more direction, that the flower petals would begin to break apart, spreading out and floating in an invisible wind. The dancing petals would then begin to conjoin with themselves, forming a vague humanoid shape.

It was only with the additional expenditure of chakra that he would find that he was more successful. The chakra, creating a coat of appearance that was entirely similar to himself, Kaou would then find himself staring face to face with a perfect replica of himself. His mouth would drop a bit as he stared at the creation, until, with a sense of satisfaction, he'd bring his right arm up to wipe his brow, and release the technique. It was interesting, the training that was occurring between Kaou and the other boy, who still, somehow, had managed to avoid interacting with each other.

[» Comatose]

+ 10

[kaou]

(exit)