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Name: Coined Confidence
Rank: C
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: Boost’s the user’s confidence based on how much Ryo they have and also lessens the effect of fear based Genjutsu and tactics.
Special: None
Drawback: Doesn’t work if the user doesn’t have much money.
Description: Money is considered power to some people and having a lot of it can increase the person’s confidence and reduce fear based Genjutsu and tactics. This also usually represents itself with an ‘invincible’ ego boost where the user thinks that they can’t be stopped.
Limit: Zaku.

Confidence was something that Asato had never lacked, even from his time as Genin. However, as time persisted certain things waned this infallible confidence. He was not exactly as not confident in himself was he was in his own leadership abilities and his ninja's abilities. The village of Snow wasn't exactly the biggest village on the block, and even with the multitude of precautions taken to ensure they were never attacked, that they'd never lose, there was always that slight possibility that it would indeed happen. How would he satiate this lack of confidence? How would it get it's fill and he reclaim his title as being truly and unendingly confident? The answer seemed to lie in his pocket, deep pockets indeed, filled with small coins of gold. Yes, Ryo would help him overcome his own slight wavering of personality and sudden insecurity.

It was a simple theory, devised out of blue of course, knowing only about such tactics for tricking the mind from the merchants of Yukigakure. To them, money ruled the world, and everything could be solved with money. Could his problem to be solved this way? Looking at it objectively, there was much probable cause for money solving his problem. Even the lowest level of ninja equip with the right gear can become a powerhouse, that being the reason for the development of things like explosive pouches and exploding tags. Simply put, with enough ryo the weakest ninja could become useful with the right amount of ryo put forth for their own efforts. But where would they get this Ryo from? Asato would outfit them of course, using the vast funds located in his treasury to lift them from obscurity. Simple enough.

This same thinking process could be applied to the whole village as a whole. So what if they were attacked, and so what if they sustained damage. Ninja were doing missions everyday, they were in the end putting a great deal of their effort back into the village itself. For every one mission twenty-five percent of it went back into the treasury. That meant that if just four ninja did missions worth at least one thousand ryo, the treasury would receive one thousand ryo itself. A thousand ryo could pay for a lot of workers salary these days, or rather, if anything, could pay for a section of wall most likely. That's right, he thought, he did indeed pay for the salary of everyone who was employed about the village. In fact, he controlled the very flow of money into and out of the village himself. He could just as easily deny a ninja a mission as he could use the money used for the ninja's contacts on other things, like that new couch he wanted in his office. . .

Delving deeper into just how much money was he controlled, it was easy to see that all the money came through him one way or another. Lose a couple of fingers? Oh well. The treasury pays the fee for the ninja to recover and get all stitched up happily. There was truly seemingly nothing that couldn't be solved with just a couple of ryo these days. A section of wall is blown up? There, a hundred ryo, go fix it. Ninja weak? A thousand ryo, hire some helping hands. What ever did he have to be insecure about? He was sitting on a large pile of money, the whole world wanting it, and thusly the whole world at his fingertips. If love for money was the root of all evil, he'd fancy himself pretty evil now.

[roko]

+10

mr. money banks~

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Kekkai: Tengai Hōjin (Barrier: Dome Method Formation)
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: This barrier allows the user to detect the movements and position of any enemy that steps within it.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: User must be stationary.
Description: Picture With this technique the user is able to know exactly where an opponent may be depending on where they may be within the actual length of the barrior. Now this technique has one purpose, To know where an opponent is and dectect their movements when they are in within the barrier. This technique is very helpful against those who are invisible by NinJutsu means, or just plain hiding. With this technique the user pushes out a barrier of chakra that shoots out in all directions to where depending on the user's class level the further this barrier can go. This barrier is in a half sphere dome in which covers around and above the user, however does not cover below the user. Those in the barrier are detected and their their movements is known as well as location. Depending on the Class level depends on how far the user is able to push out the barrier.

* "D" Class - 10 meter radius.
* "C" Class - 15 meter radius.
* "B" Class - 20 meter radius.
* "A" Class - 25 meter radius.
* "S" Class - 30 meter radius.


Limit: Universal NinJutsu Technique

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The knowledge of his about chakra and the way it worked had extended far beyond that of a normal ninja since his mastery over the element of paper. There was seldom a concept about chakra he hadn't been able to grasp, and even less things he couldn't do with his own mastery over chakra thus. Any chakra he had molded was done so expertly that it seemed fluid and limber less, there was almost no visual stimulus, no strain, and no clear sight representation that a technique had been done at all besides the initial handseals. Such mastery afforded him the understanding of using chakra for other things not so cut and dry, those so esoeteric a normal ninja would never dream of understanding.

Chakra when dispersed about a volume could be almost fluidic and viscous. For a metaphor for the understanding of such, it would be like if a stone was thrown in a pond -- the pond representing an expanse of chakra and the stone some object, when the stone is thrown into the pond it forced ripples in the water of which resounded with crests and troughs of a certain length. By finding the epicenter of those ripples or waves, one could essentially find the origin of the object, simple. However, when one applied the use of chakra to the concept it became a bit more complicated. There were several variables one would have to account for and get used to, not to mention the mental countenance and concentration needed likely forcing one to be stationary.

Nevertheless, it should have been possible, and would have to be practiced -- in steps, those steps also likely broken down into individual derivatives depending on the area he especially needed to work on. One such area was the recognition of objects within the volume of chakra he spit out. The world wasn't a still object, and neither were the objects and beings within it. Things would be constantly moving in and out of the barrier of his. In the same respect, no two items would be exactly identical. It was the recognition of such objects that would be needed to properly decipher which was which. A stone wouldn't have the same 'feel' as a 'human' would, a deer wouldn't have the same 'feel' as a moose, and so on. It seemed a tedious task, though necessary on the way to mastering such a useful technique.

Several objects and animals would be tested at random, with no real uniform ordering. With an outstretched hand the item or animal would be probed by his chakra. It was a simple procedure of stretching out his hand, releasing chakra from the tenketsu located on the hand, and then getting a 'feel' for the object. Even the smallest object would need to be tested, and even variations of those. He had found that though a wooden plank and tree bark was made of fundamentally the same things, they didn't 'feel' the same -- as he had initially believed. Though this spelled trouble in the grand scheme of things, adding more for him to 'test', it meant that he wouldn't be confused when this process was over, even with things with the most minute of differences.

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The recognition of objects was the first step in a series of recognition training that would allow him to detect all objects in his effective radius of twenty meters, which was indeed a great volume of chakra to disperse at once. Besides the individual 'feel' of objects, there was a necessity in recognizing them by specific shape. Even if he could tell what the object was, if he couldn't tell it's shape, he'd never be too sure what it was in the end, and if it was threatening in any way. Fortunately, there was a simple easy way to know if most things were man-made or a product of nature that wasn't threatening. Nature seldom produced anything of geometric pattern and shape, and by recognition of these shapes within the expanse of his chakra he could essentially discern a normal tree, from one crafted and poised to strike in some way.

Geometric shapes wouldn't make ripples in the volume of chakra that he would extend forth in the same way that something inform or spherical would. A spherical object would make ripples which would extend outwards uniformly, without any destructive or constructive interference from adjacent waves, but geometric shapes would, and each shape would have it's own specific interference pattern. There were many shapes he'd have to go through, but luckily simply gathering the shapes and placing them all within his specific radius one by one would suffice for his 'rememberence' of their interference patterns. It was a tireless and seemingly endless practice, having to go down the line of geometric shapes from the common triangle all the way to the uncommon dodecahedron, and even to the odd rhombus.

Every single geometric shape took but a minute or two to remember, multiplied by the number of shapes. . it was a very long process. However, at the end of the training period if all the items were placed in his influence at once he would be able to decipher the correct location of every one down to the millimeter. With this ability coupled with being able to decipher each object by it's 'feel', he could now correctly decipher what would be about seventy percent of all items placed in his influence, down to about a centimeter, depending on how many objects plagued his view at once. From this he could also correctly discern the clear 'difference' in his view, this being the objects and animals which he had yet to inspect. Though this could essentially pinpoint their location too, it would not tell him very much information about the target, there was in fact animal companions to deal with these days, more training would be needed.

Through research, though obvious, it was clear that the chakra signature of a higher ranked ninja would be vastly superior to that of a lower ranked one. This principle could and would be applied to all living beings, and essentially give him a stapled note to put to each he encountered foe, allowing him to gage their relative abilities down to perhaps a rank, or general strength level. A higher ranked ninja or animal would have a generally bigger prescience inside the barrier of his, and as such, would appear more clearly in his view. Simple, clear-cut, and not so easy in real practice, or so he would find out.

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The next training regiment had to take place in real-time, during real-time events to be truly useful to him. It was the regiment of training revolving around the tracking of a singular target in real time. The ripples and waves that a moving target would make would be even harder to track than a stationary one. There would be added interference patterns littered about the relative movements of the object or person, which would veil the location of it down to a central location, which would in turn likely be off by several feet or so. The more random the movements of the object, the harder it would be to track, and the harder it was to track the more he would benefit from tracking during his training regiment, and he had indeed one specific tracking target in mind.

The more whimsical of individuals, Axcel and his Polar Bear Mr. Squiggles had eluded the ANBU of Yukigakure for several days by the time Asato had found them, he hiding in the treetops at the time. Axcel and his animal companion had been blissfully unaware of his prescience the entire time, going about their odd movement patterns, Asato following them closely, yet still stealthily enough to avoid being caught. The tracking of the movements of the Rokudaime Yukikage would prove useful due to their whimsical nature, Asato shutting his eyes, and expounding a great volume of chakra about to track this target using only it, this being even harder than he had thought.

The random comically relieving movements of the Rokudaime had proved a challenge for his tracking abilities with the technique. Each time the Rokudaime had moved in excess he was forced to follow, stop, then expand his chakra again, waning his own reserves enmasse. When did this guy ever stay still? It had seemed as if the Rokudaime had been more of a child than a man at all, never tiring of seemingly "A.D.D" like movement patterns and practices. However, as expected it was good practice. For what it was worth the Rokudaime had been a vastly powerful Shinobi himself, providing him with a more than amicable source of chakra to track, along with his whimsical movements. It helped him become able to discern small movements from large ones, and decipher key interference patterns, eliminating some from his view, and casting a more detailed gaze at his target.

After several hours of tracking the man, his chakra reserves and stamina had severely waned on him; even though it was obvious the whimsical rokudaime wouldn't stop any time soon. Therefore, he had no choice but to end his training on that fair day, being sure to write down a heading the former yukikage was heading in, to track him later. With a shake of his head he turned back, watching the boyish kage run off to go about his business, whatever it was.

"Damn kid won't stay still."

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The next training regiment, which would mark probably the last of the needed regiments of training before the real world training. In this stage of the training he would be tracking multiple targets, or rather, he would have to discern the position of multiple targets. The focus here was to be able to discern their movements and individual persons even if they walked near each other, or overlapped interference patterns. This would mark probably the hardest step in the training aside form actual training. There were many patterns of interference that would be present here, and unfortunately, he'd have to remember them all and be able to blur them form his gaze, so he could pinpoint locations.

There were several targets, he naming each a number from one to twenty based on position at the time, all of them moving about a secluded location in Yukigakure, in a courtyard of a personal residence. It was imperative that they didn't realize he was there, for the reasoning it could change their natural movements, and for they would likely give him the boot, still unaware of his position as most were. Their movements had since his naming them been erratic as he had hoped, he remembering their instantaneously position before closing his eyes and attempting to view them using only chakra as his guide.

Handseals marked the finishing of the jutsu, and the expanding of chakra the start of the tracking game. As they moved about doing whatever duties they were assigned, they would be tracked remotely, to the best of his abilities. Discerning on chakra source from another was hard work indeed, and determining position harder still. It was painfully easy to determine who was who at this stage, but it was still hard to determine instantaneous and real-time positioning down to say. . within a centimeter, which is as accurate as he would have wished to make it. As the interference patterns of each individual overlapped they created a complex maze of data to analayze and filter using only one's own brainpower.

As time progressed, he grew tired, but still continued. He had seen real progress in the last hour or so. The innate ability to filter through many of the complex interference patterns had been granted through long hours of analyzing them. He had now a clearer picture of each individual he was following, down to very small details. He could tell if they were small or fat, round or thin, and the relative sizes of them compared to each other. The scaling of the volume of chakra he was able to see in was quite hard though, he'd have to make reference points later to properly be able to sense how far or tall something was in general. He could only put a distance on how far something tracked was from something else tracked, and not it's general distance from himself. Most annoying, in fact.

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More and more time passed, quickly too, as he attempted to further his skills using this courtyard as his main source of training. There were ninja and civilian of all sorts moving to and fro, back and forth between the area's at random times. The technique had become his eyes for the most part, he had yet to open his real eyes since the initial casting of the technique. He had gotten used to this sort of esoteric sight in lou of his own real sight. It was more versatile, and almost completely unable to be fooled. Although all the patrons of the courtyard were unaware of it, was probably more intimately in touch with them then they were with themselves, his chakra extending and touching upon theirs in a most symbolic way.

In the thick of the coming night he continued to train his chakra based sight, testing it still on these patrons, of which their number now increased to about fifty. He was tracking all of them at once at a party or congregation of some sorts they were holding at the time. There were some additional things which he was tracking too, specifically those things that go bump in the night, namely animals. Several dozens of animals had come out from their daytime hibernation to hunt in the night. Each one was tracked just the same as a people. His sight was more like a grid, displaying latitude and longitude codes for every number at given intervals. However, that would still be it's downfall, it needed to be automatic, autonomous, and in real-time.

The focus was now situated not on tracking individual people, he knowing how to do that fairly well, even whilst they were moving, even in tight groups. The focus was now on tracking them in real time. Since he had learned the technique he could only datavise information on a subconscious level in intervals, usually several seconds. Therefore he never got the whole picture, and rather only saw small snippets of movements. There were several movements in between that he never could pinpoint. In the real heat of battle that could have been the difference between life and death, and thusly, this problem needed to be amended and soon; replaced by only true mastery over the technique in every spectrum. However, this would surely be an insurmountable amount of data to filter all at once, much like the amount of brainpower necessary to use Byakugan, except, he didn't have the luxury of a genetic defect.

The load on his mind became heavy as he slowly came to the absolute threshold of perception, pushing past it, to some esoteric land of higher consciousness. Here there was literally no sense of time at all, and the tracking of one could be rewound as he wished. In fact, everything he had ever observed was remotely viewable from this state of alterity. Everything was viewable from multiple angles, down to the most minute detail, with almost infinite objective viewpoints. Each person's movements was a fluid as a serenaded melody, and as clear as the most high-definition photo available, rich in detail not available to the eyes in normal visible specturm. No, in this state of alterity, there was no real sight; he was everything and everyone. He knew where they were because he was them, and they he.

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The state didn't last long before external stimulus tossed him back to reality, a cold snowflake slowly melting over his face. As a hand rose touching upon it and wiping it off, he understood the full ramifications of the state he just entered, and it's usefulness. It was more than just a tracking technique now; it was something more symbolic and esoteric than that. Thus, with this newfound mastery the notion was concocted to try it out on the most arduous of tracking targets, the fabled rokudaime yukikage. As it stood, people have perceived him to be fairly had in tracking, but Asato felt as if there was a method to his madness, some sort of internal victory beat lotus sutra only perceivable to the Rokudaime. Get on that wavelength and understand the movements.

It wasn't hard to find the former yukikage roaming about with his bear, as whimsical and erratic as always. Thusly, he employed the same method he did before, using handseals to invoke his second stage of sight, expanding his chakra about his body uniformly, and then out in a twenty meter radius from his central location until it filled the whole volume this represented. From this viewpoint the rokudaime was viewable in his location indefinitely, pinpointed down to the very hairs on his head, and Mr. Squiggles too. The mastery of the technique also brought with it some staple of subconsciousness, and as he viewed more, probing the area with his chakra for any and all things, he seemed to slip away.

In the state of alterity his chakra based sight was infallible, unable to be tricked by nearly anything a ninja could muster up from the depths of their bag of tricks. The Rokudaime was no exception to this, even his whimsical nature was no match for this mastery of the technique. The internal beat the Rokudaime seemed to dance to so childishly was matched by his own drum, allowing him to find the same sort of rhythm in his alternative state of consciousness. There had been in fact a method to his madness, that could be easily tracked from his alterity. There was now no real dis-ease in tracking the man indefinitely if he had to.

Even when it came to moving to another location, completing the jutsu, and expanding his chakra again it wasn't hard, when he was moving to the same victory lotus beat. Every step was matched by one of his own, and every movement traced down to the slightest movment of muscle. In the natural chaos of the world there was order in the symbolic sense, and so long as the Rokudaime stayed within twenty meters of him, it was all effortless and ansible.

A simple shake of his head would wake him up from the trance of alterity, awakening his eyes to the sights around him. It was all as he had envisioned it internally previously, down to the speck of dirt located on Mr. Squiggles coat. There was nothing that could escape his sight now, not even the whimsical nature of the Rokudaime. With a shifting of his heels he pivoted on his perch, and used a branch for leverage as he leaned against the frame of the tree. There was no apprehension his movements anymore, no, he wanted the Rokudaime to be aware that the new kage could best him and that he should be wary.

[▐Shibu]

+10 -- Learned.

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Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Bbujiekuto) (Summoning Technique (Object))
Rank: “E,” “C,” “A,”
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A summoning technique that allows the user to summon an object/weapon/puppet the same rank and one rank above as the rank the user knows in the technique.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: Must have a scroll and seal.
Description: Picture 1-A; Picture 1-B, Picture 1-A; Picture 1-B A technique where the user uses a seal on a Scroll to summon an object they have. The object who is being summoned must have the same seal as well in order to be summoned. User is unable to summon where other seals are located. The Person is the medium and you need that person in order to bring someone in. Once the object has been summoned the seal disappears. In order to summon an object “E” Rank or “D“ Rank, user must learn “E” Rank Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Bbujiekuto) (Summoning Technique (Object)). In order to summon an object “C” Rank and “B“ Rank, user must learn “C” Rank Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Bbujiekuto) (Summoning Technique (Object)). In order to summon an object “A” Rank and “S“ Rank, user must learn “A” Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Bbujiekuto) (Summoning Technique (Object)).
Limit: Universal Nin, Unless Weapon Specialist, or Puppeteer

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There had long been a need of his to broaden his horizons to a wider spectrum of jutsu. The chosen jutsu on this fair day was one with a variety of uses, one impoarticular being the sealing and unsealing of items away in a sort of 'pocket dimension' within a scroll. In this plane of existence it would take up no space out of his own pocket save the size of the scroll he had carried around with him, which was useful, seeing as after a while it became cumbersome to lug around so much items on his person. With this said it came down to the simple understanding of the how the scroll worked and what handseals to used.

The handseals were memorized rather quickly, and the scrolls functions reasoned even quicker. Whenever one 'sealed' an item on the scroll it would get a corresponding seal on the scroll, this seal being a both the lock and key to the summoning of the item from the other realm. It was practiced using a couple of common items, like a rock he had just so happened to find at the time. It was placed upon the scroll, the handseals completed, and his hand touched upon the scroll. With a singular poof, the rock disappeared and a seal appeared on it. Just as well, doing this process over summoned the rock back. The only drawback he had noticed in his training was inability to seal larger objects. It was obvious he lacked some sort of esoteric comprehension to do it just yet.

[▐Shibu]

My shit don't stink.
+5 -- Learned.

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Suichuu (Underwater)
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Allows the user stay underwater for some time.

• D Rank Difficulty Class - 20 minutes
  
• C Rank Difficulty Class - 40 minutes
  
• B Rank Difficulty Class - 80 minutes
  
• A Rank Difficulty Class - 120 minutes
  
• S Rank Difficulty Class - 180 minutes

Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: After returning to surface the user must rest half of the time used underwater. As example, if the user has stayed under for 20 minutes, he’ll have to rest 10 minutes before the jutsu can be used again.
Description: Simple technique used by channeling chakra to mouth, lungs, ears and eyes. With chakra moved to mouth and lungs the user gathers air from the water and is able breath underwater, chakra guided to ears protects from the aching caused by pressure, lenses of chakra protecting eyes work like swim goggles.
Limit: Anyone can learn it, the techinque doesn’t even need a scroll, smart ninjas should be able to figure out the process on their own.

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There were several jutsu that came to mind when he recollected on the past, remembering some of the stories of ninja of old that he heard. In his youth he thought the stories grandiose and amazing, however, as he grew older he found out that these stories were not so otherworldly as he had thought. The use of chakra had opened up many previously closed doors for him, including the use of several of those jutsu seen in stories of old. One in particular had stood out in his mind, one which told a story of a legendary ninja. The ninja was legendary only for his survival techniques, and not necessarily his fighting abilities, however, the jutsu in his mind was one that allowed the user to stay underwater for a great extended period of time. The amount of time the ninja in the story was allowed to stay underwater for was ridiculous, if not outlandish.

However, further research told him it was in fact possible to pull this off, and rather easily to boot. There was only one set of handseals that would invoke the process necessary to excite a chain of tenketsu to release chakra. As usual, the handseals itself were no problem to remember, such things beyond him at this point. Upon rememberence, the jutsu was test in effectiveness in a small pool of water located in the tower, in a secret underground location. In this location he could practice any and all suiton jutsu as he wished. Therefore, completing the necessary handseals he tested the jutsu's effectiveness. A slow rush of heat filled his body as the process began, his breath being held as he jumped into the water.

At first there was some apprehension and strain against continually holding his breathe, however, as he felt the technique take old this was ushered away. And so, chakra was channeled into his mouth, lungs, ears and eyes. Each point had a specific need of the chakra. In the mouth and lungs any water ingested was ushered into the lungs instead of stomach. Here a process would take place similar to that of what happened with a fish's gills. Siphoned water was broken down into his key components, and as such broken down into oxygen and the waste product hydrogen. Hydrogen was released through exhaling, and rose as bubbles to the surface before dissipating into the air.

Chakra in the ears kept his body from feeling the effects of pressure, or sudden pressure differentials. With this he was able to dive to deep depths and then back up to the surface with literally no adverse effects. Chakra in the eyes formed a thin layer of chakra that would have the same effects as goggles, protecting the retina from any harsh chemicals located in any waters that he may swim through.

With all of these effects active at once for all intents and purposes he became for lack of a better term a 'fish'. He could stay underwater with no side effects for a monstrous amount of time, with the only side-effect being needing to rest after coming back to the surface. He found it relaxing to stay underwater for these extended periods of time and simply rest his weary body and listen to the slow churning of waters. Sessions of this would serve as a sort of practice, he meditating on random thoughts as he did so.

[roko]

+10~

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Fuda no Mai ( Dance of Cards )
Rank: B
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Causes up to 5 decks of cards to float in a ring around the user. By simply moving their arm through a throwing motion, they are able to fire up to five cards from their ring towards the target of their choice.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: After forming handseals, the user is capable of calling up to 10 decks of cards within their possession into a ring that floats around the user. As long as the ring floats around the user, they are capable of launching up to 5 cards from it with a simple swipe of their hand. The jutsu can be in effect for 5 turns before all remaining cards fall out of orbit.
Limit: Paper Release, Flying Cards

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Cards. Cards were the one paper construction he hadn't fully mastered yet, and it was odd that he hadn't. On his belt he had several card holsters, each housing several decks of cards. Never before had he used the cards in battle offensively, or rather, he had never used the cards as a main attacking force. He had used the cards on several occasions as a distraction, and also as a means of maneuvering his opponent into the correct ranges or locations. It occurred to him, that in order to amend this he'd have to heighten his knowledge of the art of using these cards effectively, which would require a certain measure of research.

The research would take place upon inspection of a singular card taken from his holster. Upon analyzing of it, he simply wished to get a feel for it. A single card was simply several sheets of paper condensed into a small area. This made a card several times thicker than the average piece of paper, and thusly much more versatile for cutting use. A single card should have been several times harder to destroy also in this fact. Cards, much to his surprise. may have been the strongest type of paper he could manipulate, meaning pretty much the strongest that had existed thus far.

Taking out a deck of cards he shuffled them about, transferring them between his right and left hands in a singular torrent of cards. Paper manipulation afforded him the ability to do this simple card tricks without much hassle. However, though this display was unimpressive for him it gave him an idea for a jutsu he could play off of. If he could perform simple card tricks with many cards at once, he should have been able to utilize a similar method using paper manipulation to make cards to his bidding almost autonomously. After the cards were all transferred to the right hand of his he allowed them to drop, holding them in place only with his own will and influence, as he shuffled them about this way.

One at a time he separated the cards, until they stood in a singular line. The cards being several times thicker than simple sheets of paper, made it very hard to hold them up like this. It was like holding weights with a hand fully outstretched for an extended period of time. With each passing second, just as the hand would become tired, his mind's concentration waned. It took a great amount of concentration to hold the items in the air in this way, especially in such a great volume, considering their dimension and multiplicative relation to a single sheet of paper. However, this was a necessity on getting used to the use so many at once. [/blockquote][/font]

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The training of being able to hold the cards in his will continued on for several more hours. Of course, he would take short periods of rest in between them, but like muscle strength training, he would only gain more influence if he would continue to try it without much rest in between in reps. Each rep was several minutes long, of him holding the paper cards in place once, then the next rep being him moving them slightly about an imaginary central axis. These two processes were continually repeated in the span of time he did this strength training, continuing again and again until he was totally exhausted from it, at which point a longer period of rest was taken.

The next step of training was a more taxing one, even compared to the strength training down before it. Rather than continually holding the paper in the air, and moving it only slightly periodically, he would be essentially 'lifting barbells'. Now, he would move the cards all about as they hovered only inches from his own frame. They would be ushered about with simple hand movements, They would move two and fro in single file, as directed by his hands. The practice was more taxing even then that of just holding there, because he had to bend his influence in order to properly direct it about.

After a few hours of this, it too became common place, as his strength and resistance to the waning of will needed to accomplish it was built up. In the end, he was able to direct the cards as he wished, easily and fluidly, even without the use of visual stimulus of moving his hands about. Only using his will he could influence the cards hardness and durability, and any vector that had to do with it. There would be no hiding from the cards within his fifty meter range of influence, now. However, this was still not the brunt of the technique he was trying to learn. This was only a seg-way into it's learning.

As he assembled the paper again into a singular line, an imaginary gravitational pull was created about him, about an axis chosen by he. Slowly the paper would be tugged into the influence until all of it was completely immersed into it, and forced to revolve about him like a satellite to it's planet. The paper line was flawless in it's countenance, the distance between each piece of paper staying constant, just like the distance between the paper and he. However, the rotation of the paper about him was slow, he had not the experience necessary to hasten it's pace, but he would surely try to. [/blockquote][/font]

[otakulegend]

+20

[» Comatose]

End of Flashbacks

Back to reality, it was about time to go, he was probably already running short on time; a swift exit would be taken.

[exit]