Sounds like.. [Training]

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The young girl, exploring Tanzaku, had come across a library, as it seemed, and had delved inside, searching for any scrolls to do with Sound release, the release that she was interested in learning. Upon finding one, she would then exit the library, to sit outside and learn some new techniques.

Oto no Jutsu (Sound Release Skill)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Sound. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Sound Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: ---

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Sitting down on a small patch of grass in Tanzaku outside a small library, Ishi would take a few breaths. She was going to learn.. something completely new today. Something that she hadn’t even thought of learning before. What she was going to learn was sound release. She had seen a few people use it before, she was sure, especially in the exams, and now it was her own time to learn it. But would she be able to harness the power of it? It seemed quite.. complex and all, how was one able to manipulate sound? Was it.. sound chakra? Probably, but how was she supposed to do it? Was it the same as wood chakra? Or different? She just didn’t see how someone was supposed to well, manipulate the sound waves around her.

It just seemed.. weird, that was all. But still, this was yet another stone in Ishi’s path to learning more releases, and she was planning to jump over it today. Now, where should she start? Closing her eyes, she would try to sing a little bit, chiming out a high note, as she then mentally tries to concentrate on the pattern waves that the note was creating as it moved around in the air. If I just.. try to manipulate it.. she murmurs, wondering how exactly she should try to go forwards and learn th technique. She would try to manipulate the waves that it was making to try and bend the sound a little? Would that count? Shrugging a little bit she figures that she could try, right? No harm in it.

So, closing her eyes, she would continue to try and concentrate. This was indeed harder than she had expected it to be, but if she could bypass this and learn how to use it correctly without any failure, she’d learn that perhaps it wasn’t as hard as expected, or something along those lines, right? Taking a deep breath, the young girl would then continue to try and train, attempting to learn this tricky release. If she could learn it, it would probably prove very useful. Because, you couldn’t really.. stop sound unless you had earplugs, right? And what was the chance of you have earplugs on you all the time? Very low, that was probably the answer. Still in her meditative pose, her hand would rise up, rubbing the side of her head before continuing to sing again.

Her mind then seemingly.. blanked out for a few moments as she stopped singing the same note again and again, and began to think. Sound release.. What kinds of techniques were held with it? She wasn’t quite sure, since she hadn’t really gone into the release before, but they must be pretty powerful ones and all, being able to wreck someone’s ears of course was probably the aim of most of the techniques that Sound release offered. But she couldn’t be sure. ”Maybe.. someone from Leaf knows..” she murmurs. People from Leaf probably did know that of course, since she guessed it was a common release to have..

..But a very handy one to have, she guessed. Perhaps one of her friends knew it and perhaps they could lend her some scrolls Maybe. Or she could just go around libraries borrowing scrolls to see if she could learn some. Whatever it was, she was determined to learn more about this release. At the moment, she knew Fire, Water, Earth and Wood. Wood was her favourite, then earth, and then water, and fire at the end of course, it being not one of her most favourite releases to use although she knew well that it had a lot of potential when used it he correct situation, right? Maybe she should train more of it later on..

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Himei no Jutsu (Shriek)
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: A technique in which the user screams forth in a brilliant fashion to where the opponents around in an area is unable to hear while making their bodies numb creating the feel of non movement for other types of attacks that may occur.
Special: ---
Drawback: The user takes hit by the exact type of technique. Read Descriptions in order to gain a better understanding.
Description: This technique has three separate tiers for both the opponent and the user. Depending on the very range of the attack and where the opponent is what matters for this type of technique. The user's difficulty class is what separates the magnitude of the attack as well. The technique has a range of twenty meters for the basic D Class Ninja. When the user opens up their mouth they concentrate on the very vocal chords of their throat and push forth in all directions a massive scream capable of great damage is thrown out. For every difficulty class the range increases by five meters with a maximum of forty meters for S Class. For any opponent that is within one third of distance from the user the opponent is unable to hear for three posts, feels nautious for two posts, and can mot move for one post. For any opponent that is within two thirds distance from the user the opponent is unable to hear for two posts, feels nautious for one post. For any opponent that is within three thirds distance from the user the opponent is unable to hear for one post. No matter what Class the user is in the user is unable to hear for three posts.
Limit: Sound Release

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And now, she was to learn a sound technique. Her first sound technique, to be exact. It was a technique which dealed with the user having to make a simple shriek to deafen the foe. It seemed like a pretty useful technique, also since the effects it was supposed to give to the opponent also, making feel nauseous also, although, upon reading more on the scroll that she had obtained, it would give the user the same effects also, making them deaf as well as feeling nauseous. Perhaps.. this wasn’t.. such a good technique to use at random, but it would be probably good if it was used in the correct situation and if you knew what you were going to do afterwards, understanding that you wouldn’t be able to hear well after that. But, she was going to learn it anyway.

So, how was she to learn this technique? It seemed as if you.. were supposed to open your mouth and simply concentrate on the vocal chords in the throat to scream on a large scale, like no other scream you had done before? Nodding her head, young Ishi would clear her throat before beginning. She wasn’t really one for screaming, being quite a quiet person, really, but when she did scream it was scary, since you know when you have really kind and quiet people.. and they just scream at you? It’s so.. unnatural of them. But she would need to scream for this technique. Taking a deep breath, she would then open her mouth, and concentrate on her throat, sending a small amount of chakra to it to add a boost to the technique. Would she be able to do this?

Concentrating on the very vocal chords of her throat, she would then, slowly begin to emit a LOUD, high pitched scream from her throat. Such a scream! If she tried hard enough, it could probably disrupt the heavens and cause angels to fall down from their clouds from all angles and crash back on earth. If it would be paired up with that of a banshee’s scream, it would probably match exactly although maybe Ishi’s would be stronger. But one thing was to say, her screams were.. fierce, not only because she was using a technique and chakra had been added to it. Ishi was quite a scary person when she was pissed off, and pissed off was not a (Miniscule) sentence to describle Ishi usually. It took some force to make her angry.

And the scream continued, the leaves in nearby trees shaking under the pure might of the female’s voice. She was slightly surprised herself, her eyes, despite looking the same as they did before, looked quite.. surprised that she was so loud, being used to murmuring her words or simply speaking them at a normal tone at the most. Maybe she could become good at learning sound release.. Maybe. Shaking her head a little bit, the red head would then continue to scream, nearby animals being deafened by the blood-curdling scream that resonated from her mouth, which was wide open. She felt kinda bad, deafening the wildlife around her, but..

…It was the only way to train it, right? She wasn’t that sure about learning techniques mentally and figured the best way to learn them would be to use the technique itself, unless it was some sort of life-threatening technique if you were to use it, that was different. Anyway. Soon, the scream ended, her voice slowly trailing off. But, poor Ishi.. looked around, she couldn’t hear anything. Nothing. What had happen- Oh, right. She had forgotten the side effects of the technique, and sighed a little bit to herself. Ah well, it’d pass soon, and her hearing would be back to normal, without any weird irregularities. Smiling a little bit, she would prepare herself to learn the next technique on the scroll.

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"Urutora Oto Shindou" (Ultra sound vibration)
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Sound waves vibrate bones painfully.
Special:Dragon, Hare, Ram, Rat, Ox, Rat, Monkey, Hare
Drawback:Cannot be used more then twice during battle, due to this jutsu having a minor effect on the user (who suffers a mild pain). If the user uses this technique more then twice, he/she may fall victim to this jutsu.
Armor provides little protection.
Kaguyas/ Tai masters may not be effected by this jutsu due to Higher bone density.
Description: Much like Himei no Jutsu. The user send a powerful and high pitched noise directly at an opponent. The user may use their vocal cords or weapon to emit the sound, which is launched at a 60 degree radius. The sound waves do not target hearing, bit rather an opponent bone structure. The sound waves hits the solid bones and bounces off of them, causing them to vibrate. This vibration is extremely painful to the opponent, can tamper with an opponents actions. The opponent can still move and hear, but attacks and movements are servilely hindered (C- rank=2 post, B-Rank=4 posts) the effectiveness of this jutsu and an opponent must caught at least 1/3 in this jutsu range.
C-Ranks reaches a maximum of 30 meters,
B-Ranks reaches a Maximum of 60 meters.
Limit: Must Have sound release. Must know Himei no Jutsu (shriek)

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She had waited a little bit, and now her she could actually hear, not like before when she was deafened to the extent that she couldn’t even hear her own self breathing. But now that was over, and she was ready to learn the next technique in the scroll that she was planning to learn. But would she be able to learn it? She wasn’t quite sure. ”Of course I can.” she would tell herself quietly as she reads the information about the technique that was on the scroll. So, it was some sort of.. bone vibrating technique? It sounded quite intimidating, the idea of having your bones shaken violently didn’t seem quite nice to be a victim of. But, it wouldn’t be nice to be a victim of any technique regarding sound, really, she guessed, due to the effects being physical.

But she would learn this anyway. So, what she had to do was simply… scream once more to be able to use it? So it was a branch of that technique she had just used? That made sense. Nodding her ginger head once more she would then take yet another deep breath, preparing herself to scream once more to use the technique she was currently learning. It would probably end out with her being partially deafened again, but ah well. She was learning something, right? And maybe if she had some ear plugs the sound would be less. But where was she going to get some ear plugs from in the first place? She wasn’t sure if shops sold them at all, but she’d have to simply look, right?

So, then, her mouth would open as her hands would form the handseals which were needed for the technique, Dragon, Hare, Ram, Rat, Ox, Rat, Monkey, Hare and then, concentrating on her throat’s vocal chords, a loud shriek would then be heard from her throat, once more deafening the poor animals which hid in the trees around her, as they probably scurried around trying to find some sort of area where they couldn’t hear the loud, piercing scream that the girl was shouting. They were probably thinking why the hell she was doing that and probably wanted her to GTFO. But, animals couldn’t talk to Ishi, and she didn’t really understand them. So, onwards she went, screaming her lungs out as she tried to use the technique.

And then, coming out from the small library that she was near, there was.. a middle aged female walking out. A non-nin no doubt, carrying no sort of headband to signify her belonging to a village, Ishi would accidentally use the technique on her, as she suddenly stops in her tracks, and seemingly.. jolts a little bit, moving around. But, Ishi hadn’t noticed, she had her eyes closed as she shrieked, waiting to see how loud she could scream. Unknowingly to her, she had accidentally used the technique she was currently practicing on someone. But, all in all it was an accident, right? If the female did notice that it was her- And she probably would, since Ishi was the only person around who was screaming bloody murder- would she forgive her?

Ishi wasn’t quite sure, but she hoped so since it was never nice to make enemies, right? Or she could just plead forgiveness from her. Having now noticed that she was currently effecting the female, she would stop her scream, she noticing herself that her own hearing had been put off a little bit due to the scream, would that make it quite useless for her to go and apologize since she figured that the female’s own hearing would be put off too. So, to avoid having to wait about ten minutes and stall her until the two could hear, she would quickly grab the scroll she was currently reading in and jumped around the back of the library, set the scroll down, and began to train there.

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"Urutora Oto Shindou" (Ultra sound vibration)
Rank: B
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Sound waves vibrate bones painfully.
Special:Dragon, Hare, Ram, Rat, Ox, Rat, Monkey, Hare
Drawback:Cannot be used more then twice during battle, due to this jutsu having a minor effect on the user (who suffers a mild pain). If the user uses this technique more then twice, he/she may fall victim to this jutsu.
Armor provides little protection.
Kaguyas/ Tai masters may not be effected by this jutsu due to Higher bone density.
Description: Much like Himei no Jutsu. The user send a powerful and high pitched noise directly at an opponent. The user may use their vocal cords or weapon to emit the sound, which is launched at a 60 degree radius. The sound waves do not target hearing, bit rather an opponent bone structure. The sound waves hits the solid bones and bounces off of them, causing them to vibrate. This vibration is extremely painful to the opponent, can tamper with an opponents actions. The opponent can still move and hear, but attacks and movements are servilely hindered (C- rank=2 post, B-Rank=4 posts) the effectiveness of this jutsu and an opponent must caught at least 1/3 in this jutsu range.
C-Ranks reaches a maximum of 30 meters,
B-Ranks reaches a Maximum of 60 meters.
Limit: Must Have sound release. Must know Himei no Jutsu (shriek)

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And now she was going to try it again, but extend her knowledge of the technique, to try and better it, to make the effect possibly worse and to make the technique more powerful in general. Would the little kunoichi be able to do this? She had the right attitude, and she wouldn’t stop trying to learn it until she had mastered the technique. There were no breaks for young Ishi, if she was to serve her country and gain power, the only way to do it was through training. But, weirdly enough, despite the fact that she was very active, running around all the time and training almost 24/7, she wasn’t that.. muscled on the outside. She had a petite form, although she didn’t look weak at all, her arms despite being thin were well toned, her stomach flat and well, she was toned altogether, but held no large bulky muscle.

And she was glad for that, because well, she wasn’t too fond of seeing females with lots of muscles. It freaked her out a little bit. She didn’t mind the ones with a bit of muscle, but she meant the ones who participated in competitions with abs and muscles the size of a cow. She never, ever wanted to become one of those people. If she ever did, she’d have to cover herself up in who knows how many clothes to make sure it was unseen from people. ”………” anyway, on with the technique. So, to start off she would need to scream as she had done before, just she needed to put much, much power into it this time. She needed to think of a scenario.. perhaps.. if she was being brutally murdered by someone?

That thought wasn’t a very nice one of course, who would like to think of themselves while they were being murdered by some unkown assailant? But, stll for this technique she would have to imagine it to be able to scream. If she wouldn’t, no-one would come and help her from being killed by the freak that was chasing her. Yes.. The scene slowly unfolded in her mind as to how things were going to play out for herself in her little murder montage that she was trying to think up. So, closing her eyes, she would begin to think, horrible, horrible thoughts, ones of which she herself was being slaughtered. Preparing herself to think this, she would take one deep breath, before beginning to think.

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The scene was set..

The area was misty, like one of those old Films you had on TV. The town, which was now dark, the moon high in the sky, seemed deserted, although truth was everyone was asleep in the large village of Konohagakure, except one Nin, a ginger haired girl named.. Ishi Kishiko. She was in her bed, trying to sleep, but unable to since the rustling of the trees outdoors. It had been a harsh night, the winds blowing loudly outside, a storm was brewing, that was sure. Probably other people, not just Ishi were awake, but she was the main character of the story of course, so let’s just say that for the sake of the story and the sake of her training. So, being awake, she would get up and walk into the kitchen, planning to get herself a nice drink before she’d try to attempt to sleep again.

Pitter patter, pitter patter.. the sound of her feet patting against the tiles of the kitchen floor would resonate through the whole room, making them sound so loud in the quiestest of days- Well, it was loud outside, but not outside. Phah! You know what I mean. Anyway, walking towards the kitchen, she would then open the refridgerator, taking out what appeared to be a jug of orange juice, and, maneuvaring across the room, she would then pick up a glass from the nearby cabinet, and pour the orange liquid into the glass, and then, she would take a hearty swig of the drink, the orangey goodness dropping upon her tongue. It had been fresh orange juice too, making the taste even better. And, placing the glass down, which was now empty, she would plan to go back to bed.

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[Inside Ishi’s mind]

So, walking back into her bedroom, she would tuck back into bed, but then.. jolt, hearing lightning strike nearby- Although, nowhere near her own home, it was far away, but the sound was quite fierce. She wasn’t that fond of lightning of course, but who was? It wasn’t that nice of a thing to be stuck outside with, unless you had lightning release and you were able to create your own and you were used to it by now, that was. But, Ishi wasn’t a user of Raiton of course, and so she wasn’t that informed about the traits and qualities lightning held, except for the basic facts that were given in academy, that it was dangerous and all that. She wasn’t quite sure about it battle-wise, though.

Slinking back into bed, she would close her eyes, only to have the small feeling that someone was watching her from inside her room, or the window. She had no clue of which one of course, since her eyes were closed. Opening them up once more, having heard a small noise occur from within the room, she would look around only to see nothing. The shadows of the various pieces of furniture creeping across the room as they normally did. In the night, and the fact that she was ever so slightly scared, although she daren’t admit it, things seemed.. scarier. The potted plant on the windowsill now looked like a severed head in the darkness and the chest of drawers didn’t look much different, but they looked.. darker, and more sinister than they had been in the daytime.

But, the young girl would tell herself that it was only the shadows. Only the shadows. The time was around 2AM now, and it would be morning soon and everything would be fine and great. Nodding to herself to reassure herself that everything was fine she would then turn over, and place the radio on which was near her, placing it on classical FM, the sweet melodic sounds filling her ears, moving over the sound of the lightning which struck around Konahagakure frequently. The sound of the radio made her at peace most of the time, filling her mind with happy thoughts and rainbows and unicorns with the nice classical songs.

Although, at the moment it wasn’t working like it usually did, she still felt as if someone was watching her, pursuing her from the darkness as she slept. And for this reason, she didn’t want to sleep at all, scared that something would leap out from the darkness at her when she didn’t expect it, ready to strike. Taking a deep breath the pyjama clad Kunochi would then reach for something near her bed, her weapons pouch, which held her secondary weapons. She would take a kunai out, and then look around at the darkness once more, her vision limited due to the lack of light, and keep the weapon in her hand to use it if it was needed.

Of course, she would have placed the light on, but that would mean she’d have to get up and move halfway across the room, making her vulnerable to attacks which were coming up behind her, so at the moment turning the light on wasn’t an option of course. But she’d be fine, right? Her imagination was probably just at play because of the atmosphere which was around the place, the wind howling through the trees and making the window rattle by it’s pure force, and the lightning which struck when she least expected it at random points in the village. Thankfully up to now, none had hit her house, so she was fine.
For now.

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[Inside Ishi’s mind]

And the lightning continued to crackle violently as she attempted to fall asleep, the sound somewhat drowned out by one of Mozart’s famous songs, but she could still hear it, and it sounded as if it was coming nearer, which unnerved her a little bit, but she would try her best to just.. relax and chill out in order to be able to go back to sleep, which at the moment was proving very difficult. So, figuring she’d better read a book or something until she’d feel genuinely sleepy, she rose to her feet, not minding about the bad feeling she had, for now, and then moved forwards to walk towards the light switch. And with a little click sound, the room would become enveloped in bright, shining light, a total opposite to the darkness that had filled the empty space of the room a few moments ago.

And as the light was turned on, she had heard some other sound, as if someone had just ran round the room.. or.. moved. But, placing it in the back of her mind she would walk over to her bookshelf, picked a book up, which was one entitled “Rabbits of the wilderness” and walked back to bed as she lied down, pulling the covers over her, and began to read the book. The blurb in the back described it to be quite a nice book, one about different breeds of rabbits living the life in a forest somewhere, until one day when their forest was threatened with man, them wanting to cut down the trees to build houses. Or something along those lines, but the parts about the bunnies sounded nice at least. Nodding her head she would then begin to read the story itself.

So, as Ishi began to read the story, noticing the Authors notes at the start, she would slowly become drawn into it, forgetting what the time was and she had suddenly ignored both the sounds of the lightning and the sound of the radio, her single thought now was on the book that she was currently reading. And, along with the radio and the lightning, she had forgotten about something else also. The silent sounds of pitter pattering which emitted from random spots in the room, although she had figured those were just lightning striking from far away, probably, and continued to read her book, reading about the different rabbits which were there. A large lop-eared bunny named Scottie and..

..On she read, the next ten minutes filled with her simply staring at the pages, and turning them when she had read the latter page. Her mood had definitely lifted, being not scared of the lightning anymore she felt at peace again, placing the book down, and resting her head against the duck-feather pillow that was fluffed up nicely on her bed, and closing her eyes, only to hear the sound of the small pitter pattering appear again from somewhere in the room, although once more, the careless girl ignored it. Maybe there was a mouse infestation in the room and they were moving around? Probably, that was it. She’d get that problem sorted out tomorrow, and ask someone to come around to take care of them maybe or chase them out herself.

And so.. the young girl would soon fall asleep despite the fact that the light was still on. She felt.. safer with it on of course, since if anyone was planning on sneaking up behind her she’d be able to see them easily because of the shadows, right? Her dreams were filled with lightning strikes, and lop eared bunnies and hares running around the place in a weird forest. It was hardly as weird as some of the dreams that she had had before, but weird nonetheless of course. But, at least she was finally asleep, right? She was looking forwards to waking up in the morning. Perhaps she’d learn some new techniques or have some nice toast with egg?

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[Inside Ishi’s mind]

CRAKCKCKCKCKCKCK! The sound of lightning roared through the whole village, as the youth’s eyes opened up immediently, only to see that the power had been turned out due to the lightning strike that just appeared ”Damn it..” she murmurs to herself under her breath. Figuring that she’d better go turn it back on with the breaker switch, she sighs, getting up from the comfortable bed that she had once been sleeping in, and then moves herself around the room almost blindly, her eyes slightly cloudy because of the lack of the sudden lack of light that was around the room, but, sooner or later her eyes would adjust to her new level of light, and she should be able to navigate normally, if but with a little difficulty.

Walking downstairs, almost tripping over the seventh step Ishi would then attempt to maneuver herself around the hallway, trying to walk into the kitchen, where the breaker switch was located. It was quite.. scary really, having to move across in the darkness without knowing what might be around you and all, but then again if she would place the break switch on she would be able to see when the lights were coming back on, right? That was a good point. Nodding her head, she would then move into the kitchen, and walk around until she manages to come to where she figured the breaker switch was, as a large white box stood on the wall. Fumbling at the side of the wooden box for a bit, she would turn the key..

..Opening the box, swinging the small door open to reveal a sort of electrical box which had a switch on it. She would then pull it, and look to the hallway, where she could briefly see the upstairs light that had once been in her room come on. Sighing in relief she would walk over to the kitchen switch, and turn the lights on, only to see the large shadow of a humanoid figure flicker on the wall. But..once more she figured it was just her silly imagination at work with the right scenario, although up to now she had started to doubt that theory of course. Things had just become.. more.. real than she had expected them to be the first time.

But it was all a fake, right? When you were scared and it was all dark and there was a storm outside you’ve obviously going to think the worst about what’s happening around you, that there was a ghost in your house or if there was a mental person stalking you step by step as you walked through your house. Ishi was scared a little bit by those ideas, but she tried not to think about them, although some ideas slowly slipped into her mind, scaring the life out of her. She didn’t want to be stalked by some freak especially in the dark!

But she kept it in the back of her mind to avoid herself being too scared to go back upstairs. So, walking into the dark, long, twisting hallway once more she would walk back upstairs, and run into the bedroom, jump into bed, and hide under the covers, really wanting to go back to sleep. All the while this had happened, the radio was still on, but the young Kunoichi hadn’t noticed that Classical FM wasn’t on, but an oldies channel with old music on it. But, she was oblivious to this, having not even noticed anything regarding the change of the music, and simply set towards trying to go back to sleep again. That was her aim now.

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[Inside Ishi’s mind]

While she was sleeping, unknowingly to her- The girl, the time now being 4AM, she fallen asleep and was now in the land of nod- there had indeed been a shadow in her home. A male, dressed in black, his hair the shade of death itself, pure black, and his skin a ghostly white. He had been the person who had been stalking her today, but the thing was.. who was he? Why was he here? What was he going to do? While Ishi innocently slept in her bed like a baby, he was slowly planning how he was to take the girl down, walking slowly up the stairs to try and avoid any loud noises to be made to wake her up again. She had been troublesome, waking up all the time.

And every time she had done that, he had to go and hide once more, disguising his form with a genjutsu, but now she was finally asleep! And now was time to strike, the time to take down the pitiful Ishi who he had been targeting for so long. Now was his time, and the girl would wake up only to find herself stabbed to death hopefully, or so he wanted to happen anyway. Of course he didn’t know if the girl was able to fend for herself or not, but he hoped not, to be able to have her bounty- Although it hadn’t been that much, it was Ryo, and ryo was ryo, correct? Nodding his head he would continue to walk up the stairs, taking baby steps to avoid making as much noise as possible.

He was now.. close to the landing of the stairs, almost there.. almost where his pray was. He could hear the innocent sounds of breathing from the room, as she inhaled and exhaled air, sleeping soundly as the sound of some old some emitted from the room, the light on.. She could easy see her leg, which was hanging out from the bed like some sort of elastic string. It wasn’t’ broken, simply in a weird position that made her look as if she had broken it. Her hand on the other hand was slumped over the headboard of the bed, and her head facing the ceiling, her delicate eyes closed. She looked so peaceful.. but, that was soon to change after he would make his way to the her room. A deadly smirk would lace his face..

..”……….” she was still quiet, sleeping of course, since you generally didn’t make that much noise unless you were sleeptalking or sleepwalking, something Ishi wasn’t doing at the moment of course, otherwise she’d probably be outside or in the living room tryin to rearrange things. It had happened to her a few times before, the last time which it had happened, her entire book collection had been messed up with her books all over the place, and she had to order them again in the morning after she had found out what had happened, and it wasn’t a very nice thing to see, of course. She had just made work for herself.

Tick.. tock.. tick.. tock.. tick.. tock.. the clock on the wall ticked away silently, although in the current atmostphere every tick and tock was loud, although it was still drowned out by the sound of the radio and the lightning. It was soon approaching 5AM, and soon, the girl would meet her maker, or so the black haired pursuer hoped anyway. He liked to take out his pray by surprise, not in formal battles. He didn’t like to give them chances to live, of course. That just spoiled the fun didn’t it! And if it was at night, the chances someone was going to go and help was also quite slim wasn’t it. Grinning a little bit, he would move ever so closer to her room..

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[Inside Ishi’s mind]

Snore snore snore.
The sound of her snoring could be heard now, the girl was undoubtedly out of it, being asleep, and it was quite sure that she wasn’t going to awake for some time. As well as that, the shadow slowly walked over the girl silently, his shadow moving across the lit room, he was in light now, and one was able to see that his eyes were of the deepest purple, quite a curious shade to have an eyecolour in, one may say. And then, he would take out a kunai from his own weapons pouch, the one that the girl had held was now on the floor, having dropped it carelessly in her sleep. Smirking, he would then move over to her bedside silently, and..

Wait for the chance to strike. When should he do it? The girl was still snoring as she slept, her nose probably blocked by something or throat. He wasn’t quite sure how snoring exactly worked, anyway.
Ishi on the other hand was dreaming about bunnies as ever, her eyes shut tight as she slept, he hand twitching a little bit as she does so. She was tired and had finally achieved her rest after numerous times, and she seemed to be enjoying it. Oh what cruel fate was going to fall down upon her as she slept. She was but a child! How could this happen? The room still light, the man’s shadow began to move forwards and then.. violently stab the kunai into her chest near where the heart was placed in the body, digging it in.

Blood.
A large amount of thick, crimson liquid trickled out from her chest as she was stabbed by the kunai, the blood seeping from the large wound down her sides and dripping on to the wooden floor with quiet patters, she would then suddenly jolt as her eyes would open once more, slightly bloodshot from the shock that he had given to her, as she began to lose her breath slightly, still in her bed although she couldn’t move purely because of the shock that was currently enveloping. What had happened? Who was he? His hand kept digging into her chest, his aim to pierce her heart with his weapon, although, what he didn’t expect was.. On the count of three, the girl had opened her mouth and..

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SCREAMED!

The loud noise could be heard from the red head who was sitting once quietly behind the small library inside Tanzaku gai. Who had known that she could create so much sound? She was practically screaming bloody murder with the amount of noise she was making, and unknowingly to others she was, or, had been atleast. She hadn’t been hurt in real life, but the idea of her dying in her mind made her uneasy, but atleast it had given her the will to scream for the technique. Focusing on her vocal chords, she would continue to scream her lungs out, making such a noise that it deafened even the people who were further away from she had been before.

And then.. silence. Had she done the technique correctly? She wasn’t quit sure, but one thing was for sure and that was she couldn’t hear anymore, and she was feeling.. ever so slightly nauseous, having the feeling that she was going to throw up if she wasn’t’ careful. Taking a few breaths of fresh air she would then close her eyes, and open them again a few moments later, her throat hurting a little bit from all of the shouting, but she’d get used to that in time after she’d get used to using the technique, correct? Or, she hoped that was what would happen anyway. Having a sore throat wasn’t fun at all of course. Unless you were babied while you had it from your parents and you were given magazines and sweets and all.

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"Oto Dangan" (Sound Bullet)
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Small invisible sound waves pass through opponents body, but harms body on the molecular level.
Special: Horse, Monkey, Bird, Ox, (Hold) Tiger
Drawback: Some armors may greatly reduce the effectiveness of this jutsus. Other (large) sources of sound may cancel out this jutsu. Also, the users hands at the same time cannot be used for anything else (explained below). Visible to those with chakra seeing powers.
Special: Horse, Monkey, Bird, Ox, (Hold) Tiger
Description: While holding the the tiger handseal, chakra begins to flow between the small gap left by the two hands being held together. The user proceeds to position the handseal held over his/her own mouth now. All sounds emitted through the handseal are converted and charged by the chakra, to become far more deadlier. The chakra compresses, and alters the sounds wave lengths, forcing them into a smaller area (roughly the size of senbon needles). The entire process occurs within fractions of a sec and the user is able to create multiple sound bullets. The sound bullet itself travels at amazing speeds and are extremely hard to dodge.
• -Upon hitting the opponent, the sound bullets travel right through the human body. Once inside the body, the sound bullet clashes against every cell in the vicinity, vibrating them violently. Water retained in the cell vibrate so much, that they explode upon themselves. To the opponent, he/she will suffer searing pain in the area where the sound bullet hits.
• -This jutsu is best used on open extremities of the opponent
• C-Rank:The user is able to create three sound bullets that travel a maximum of 40 meter
• B-Rank:The user is able to create 6 sound bullets that travel a maximum of 60 meters.

Limit: Must have sound release, Must know "shriek" and ultra sound vibration

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Her earache now over, the ability to hear returning to her slowly, she would then set on learning the next technique which was in the sound scroll that she had borrowed. This technique was called.. sound bullet. Where you could create bullets out of pure sound. That sounded quite interesting, right? Because sound was almost unstoppable by most, and this technique dealed with exactly that. Upon reading more, she learned that sound waves moved through to the opponents body, and clashed with every cell that they could find. That sounded quite.. painful at the least, and she was glad that she hadn’t seen this technique in person before. Sound now seemed.. more dangerous than she had first thought.

But, no worries, because soon Ishi would be well informed of the style and know many techniques herself, or so she hoped anyway. It would probably prove very useful to the young girl if she was to fight in the future. These bullets, which could be rendered as invisible would be a very useful thing to be able to use due to the fact that well, with these bullets, and in the right situation, they might be able to deal quite a lot of damage. Moreso since she had mastered the technique that was needed to learn this technique itself. Smiling a little bit to herself the red head would then cease to read around the technique, and begin to try to use it herself.

So, forming the handseals which were needed for the technique, her hands would form the zodiac; Horse, Monkey, Bird, Ox as she would then hold the tiger seal, bringing it up to her mouth as she then begins to scream once more. In the gap between the who hands, she would slowly flood it with chakra, even though it was a small gap, that was how the technique was used, so she’d have to trust that, right? As the chakra continued to fill the gap, she would then prepare herself to scream once more. She needed to do it as powerful as she had the last time- Maybe.. more powerful, if she thought she was up to it. Taking a deep breath, she would then prepare herself. One.. two three..

..SCREAM!

The harsh sound would escape from her lips and penetrate the atmosphere with it’s cry. She was finding it a little bit hard, having to scream at the top of her lungs, which gave her a bad itch at the back of her neck. She’d probably have to drink some lemon and honey tea when she’d return to leaf after training a little bit to soothe her throat. But, such things Ishi was willing to do if it allowed her to learn these techniques. She wasn’t planning to master the art of sound, but at least learn some useful techniques that could aid her in and out of battle later n in the future. This was a technique that would of course aid her in battle, why would she want to use it day to day?
She’d need a lot of Honey and Lemon drinks then.
And a girl could only buy so much lemons.

The sound waves which had been born from her ear-splitting scream would then, going through the chakra laced handseal which she had formed, seemingly.. become smaller, fitting all of the power that was in said scream into three, small bullet shaped formations, although they were invisible to the naked eye, said the scroll which she had learned the technique from in the first place, and then seemingly fly forwards and smack into a tree, causing it to vibrate ever so slightly. Was this the power of the sound bullet technique? There was no outside damage in the tree, although you could clearly see that some leaves had fallen down after the impact of the bullet with the tree. This was only the basic starting level of the technique, and on the scroll it had said that there was a move advanced version of it. What power would that have…?

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Learned

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"Oto Dangan" (Sound Bullet)
Rank: B
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Small invisible sound waves pass through opponents body, but harms body on the molecular level.
Special: Horse, Monkey, Bird, Ox, (Hold) Tiger
Drawback: Some armors may greatly reduce the effectiveness of this jutsus. Other (large) sources of sound may cancel out this jutsu. Also, the users hands at the same time cannot be used for anything else (explained below). Visible to those with chakra seeing powers.
Special: Horse, Monkey, Bird, Ox, (Hold) Tiger
Description: While holding the the tiger handseal, chakra begins to flow between the small gap left by the two hands being held together. The user proceeds to position the handseal held over his/her own mouth now. All sounds emitted through the handseal are converted and charged by the chakra, to become far more deadlier. The chakra compresses, and alters the sounds wave lengths, forcing them into a smaller area (roughly the size of senbon needles). The entire process occurs within fractions of a sec and the user is able to create multiple sound bullets. The sound bullet itself travels at amazing speeds and are extremely hard to dodge.
• -Upon hitting the opponent, the sound bullets travel right through the human body. Once inside the body, the sound bullet clashes against every cell in the vicinity, vibrating them violently. Water retained in the cell vibrate so much, that they explode upon themselves. To the opponent, he/she will suffer searing pain in the area where the sound bullet hits.
• -This jutsu is best used on open extremities of the opponent
• C-Rank:The user is able to create three sound bullets that travel a maximum of 40 meter
• B-Rank:The user is able to create 6 sound bullets that travel a maximum of 60 meters.

Limit: Must have sound release, Must know "shriek" and ultra sound vibration

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Her throat now slightly soothed from letting it rest for a little bit after having used that technique, young Ishi would then prepare herself to learn the next level of technique that this allowed. This was.. the B-Ranked version of the technique where it would allow her to create more bullets of sound than she had been able to with learning the base level of the technique. So, she wanted to learn this next evel of the technique in order to expand her knowledge of sound release. That and this technique seemed quite interesting, the bullets travelling at almost unoticable speeds and giving such a large impact upon the opponent, it was truly a technique that needed to be mastered, or, Ishi saw it in that way anyway.

But would the lass be able to learn this level of the technique? That was a good question. She had enough guts to learn a technique that was able to wreck the opponent’s insides by growing a rose garden beneath their very flesh, but would she be able to learn this? It was probably a yes, since she had started now and she wouldn’t give up until she’d learn it fully. Then she’d learn a few more things, and depart back to Konoha. She would smile a little bit, remembering when she and Takeo had been drunk in the Inn at Tanzaku Gai. That had been a fun day, right? Even though he was from Rain, a country which Ishi was still very curious about, due to the whole situation with Souzen having whispered those words to her, she had enjoyed his company.

Perhaps they’d meet in the future once more? One thing that she hoped was that they’d meet in peace like they had at the Inn, not at war. Being quite a neutral person, Ishi didn’t hate any of the other villages for what they had done to the Leaf. It wasn’t their fault exactly that they had been born in feuding villages, but.. When some people attacked Leaf simply because they were in an enemy village, Ishi didn’t quite.. see the point of that, really- Well, she did sort of, but she wasn’t really one to go to war with people. Ishi was more of a peacemaker than a war bringer.

Closing her eyes the young girl would them begin to psyche herself up once more. She needed to emit a loud scream again to use the bullet technique, but she needed to do it more powerfully this time. And how would she do that? She could go back and try to imagine herself being killed again, or she could change the scenario again perhaps? Yes, that would be a good idea, right? Nodding her head, she would try to think up a few scenes in which she would be screaming. Perhaps if a bee stung her? That wouldn’t be very nice. Or maybe.. if she fell off a cliff? That was better than the last idea, she figured, and that it made sense, people generally shouted or screamed when they were thrown off cliffs. Nodding her head, she would then look to the side, performing the handseals, and forming the tiger seal, filling the gap with chakra like the last time.

She was currently sitting behind the back of the library, so there weren’t any people nearby that she could accidentally torture with her techniques, thankfully. She still hadn’t apologized to that lady that she had accidentally used the ultra vibration technique on. Although, she didn’t really know where she was now, so she couldn’t really go and apologize. But, she had probably forgotten about it now, right? She had probably blamed it on some freak earthquake or something, maybe. Or, that’s what Ishi hoped she had done anyway, not wanting to get a bad name around Tanzaku Gai. She liked being a nice person in Hi No Kuni, and didn’t want anyone to think ill of her.

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[Inside Ishi’s mind]

And so.. she was going to be thrown off a cliff at the end of this dream montage. Once more, the scene was set, but this time she wasn’t in Konohagakure, but somewhere in Stone country, on one of the mountains that the village was based near. She was climbing it, for some reason. Why exactly? Who knows. Maybe she herself didn’t know. The look on her face showed that she was quite tired after all of the climbing, but on she went, moving upwards, upwards, upwards into the sky, bypassing the very clouds and birds that flew around the top of the mountain. She was going to reach it soon! There wasn’t much to go now.

By looking at her clothes you could tell that she had been climbing for atleast a day, a few portions of her clothing ripped from sharp rocks, that and they looked worn. Or perhaps she had been wearing ripped clothes all the while? Although that would be quite silly because when climbing a mountain in perhaps cold conditions you’d need all the clothes you’d get, and you needed padding for your clothes just incase you’d fall and break something. Or, that’s what she figured anyway, but she was a total n00b when it came to climbing mountains and all. There weren’t that many of them of the size she was climbing at the moment back in Konohagakure.

And why exactly was she climbing said mountain? Who knows. Only Ishi would, of course, but some may say that by looking at her she didn’t know what she was doing herself. ”………” as she would gleely walk along the upwards path that slowly went along the mountain, she would soon come to a break in the path, needing her to jump over to get to the other side. Looking down at the gap, she would notice her head had begun to feel as if it was.. spinning. Perhaps climbing a mountain wasn’t that great of an idea. But, shaking her head and placing her worries aside she would then go back a little bit, and take a run and jump to get to the other side…

..Only to fall, but luckily grasp on the edge of the other side. She would then, catching her breath for a few moments after the surprise of falling so quickly, pull herself up to the ledge, bringing her torso up first, and then sort of.. crawling forwards so that she’d be able to lift her legs up from the gaps between the rock. Sooner or later, she was on the other side, her clothes a little bit more ruined and a little energy lost after that, but she was ready to keep climbing the mountain. She needed to make it to the top before the night would befall down upon Earth Country, or else she’d be in trouble, right? Who knows what kind of murderous mountain goats live on the mountain.

Her feet, making silent thuds as they step upon the rock, she would be careful not to trip any over stray rocks that had fallen down the side of the mountain, because that wouldn’t be really great, right? Taking a few short breaths, leaning against the wall of the mountain she would take a short break, reaching into her small backpack to get out a bottle of water. She would take a brief sip of the oasis in a bottle, and place it back in the backpack afterwards, then beginning to climb again. She needed to conserve all of the water and food she had for later. Not that she had a lot of both.

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[Inside Ishi’s mind]

Looking up to the sky, it was beginning to get dark soon, and she needed to get to the top as quickly as she could. The others should be there by now, but they were all professional mountain climbers, while she hadn’t climbed a mountain ever before in her life, but she was hoping that she’d be able to tackle climbing this mountain, it was a baby compared to the mountains the others had climbed although she was already finding trouble simply climbing this one. That was weak of her, she had to do better to prove to them that she was as skilled in climbing mountains as they were.

But, things weren’t looking good right now, she had a good fifty metres or more to climb before she’d be at the top, although it didn’t seem like that much, it felt like it, and the path wasn’t’ that great too to follow, rocks sticking out from the walls and stones all over the place, it would be easy to trip over something which would then end up in her death, something that she didn’t want to happen, really. She’d like a nicer death than tripping and falling off a mountain, it wouldn’t be very nice either and you’d have to deal with having a slow, painful death after falling a few thousand metres or so off the cliff edge.

Shaking her head, she would continue to trudge on, her hair tucked in to the hood that was on her coat, only her fringe and bangs able to be seen, the rest was hidden behind the furry hood . ”This really isn’t as easy as I thought it would be..” she murmurs between pants, finding it hard now the higher up the mountain she walked, the air becoming a little bit thin. But.. She was almost there. Almost to the campsite, sort of. Looking to the side she would see a herd of wild mountain goat move across the mountains, hopping down to a lower level, they had the right idea. Oh wouldn’t it be great to be a mountain goat, to be able to conquer mountains easily with your sense of balance and all.

But, Ishi was just a silly human who was trying to conquer mother nature, and at the moment, mother nature was winning due to the fact that Ishi now had the feeling that she was lost on the mountain, and felt as if she was simply going in circles. She would lean against the wall once more, reaching into her backpack again and taking out a communications device as she would then try to tune in to one of the devices that the eldest male in the team had. She’d take a few moments to try and find the channel, only to find a static noise on each one. There was no signal. Groaning, she would then sigh, place it back, and begin walking once more, hopping over various rocks.

Would she be trapped here? She was sure hoping not, since she had a life to fulfil back at the leaf village and duties to do. She had just taken the time off to climb this mountain as some sort of mini holiday, although she was hoping that it would be fun, but right now what she was experiencing was the exact opposite of fun, really. Climbing a damn mountain near nightfall was terrifying, as you wouldn’t know if you’d fall into some pit or accidentally walk across the edge or not, of course you could always use a torch, but batteries ran out quickly.

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[Inside Ishi’s mind]

Trip!
The girl would then, because she was now tired and just wanted to go to sleep, had accidentally tripped over a rock, and fallen flat on her face, almost being thrown off the mountain the process, but she had been lucky. Raising up slowly, the joints of her body aching after all of the walking and climbing, her scarred hand would then rise to her nose, only to find that there was a crimson liquid seeping down her right nostril freely as if it was some sort of tap. She would then quickly reach into her backpack, take out a tissue, and hold it on her nose for a few moments, her head facing the sky above as she does so. She was hoping it wasn’t broken, that wouldn’t’ be very nice.

She could only imagine what sort of fun the other guys were doing, in their camp, with the battery powered heater and having some nice beans and bread or something nice along those lines, when she was somewhere on the side of the mountain with a possibly broken noise, and who knows many bruises. Looking at her arm, pulling the sleeve up, she would notice a few patches of blue and purple, the spots where she had fallen on hard or sharp rocks. She was hoping that they would have some sort of medic that could heal her injuries, otherwise she might not be able to make the climb back down tomorrow and they’d have to send an air ambulance or something to help her.

Although, she didn’t want to be a burden to the team. If she’d become lost, they might worry about her and forget the goal they were doing and go looking for her simply because she couldn’t read a map right and had gotten lost somewhere, although, since she didn’t know the people that well she wasn’t sure if they’d bother go and look for her in the first place, but she was hoping that, since she didn’t want to be stranded on a mountain for the rest of her life and become some sort of hermit. That’d just be so weird and so un-Ishi like. Despite the fact that she was quiet, one could say that she was ever so slightly a sort of attention seeker among her friends. Not much, just a little bit of one. She was quiet among strangers, but, talkative and all among people she knew.

”Please say I’m near the top..” she would murmur to herself in a sort of desperate tone, wanting to be at the top in a nice tent already, eating a nice can of beans. Looking up she could just about see a faint light that she figured was the campside, or, she hoped it was anyway. And so, with newly found determination, noticing that she wasn’t that far away from finally being with the others, she would move up the mountain now quicker than she had the last time, having a sudden spurt of energy to go and do something. Grinning as she does so, she would then keep walking, keep keep walking.

”You’re almost there..” the young girl would tell herself, the sky now a darker shade of black than it had been half an hour ago. It was indeed becoming dark quickly, and young Ish was hoping that she’d be back q uickly. She was making good time now though, and would be there in no time, or so she hoped. The pain from the injuries she had suffered seemed to dull with time, they only hurting when she placed any sort of pressure on them now, and that was all good because she wasn’t planning to fall on her face again. Who really planned doing that anyway?
Unless you did it has some sort of comedy act..

Which must hurt, y’know.

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[Inside Ishi’s mind]

And soon, she was almost there, the light becoming stronger with every level of the large mountain that she conquered. The light was probably some sort of lamp, she could make out the figures of the tents as she went along, and she could start to hear the cloud speaking and laughing of the other members of the team. She was wondering if anyone else had made it. She found it a little bit silly that they had to climb up the mountain uniquely instead of in teams, that just made things more dangerous, right? It would have made more sense if they would be in teams of two, but ah well, she was almost there. A smile on her face, she would continue to go up the mountain.

She soon came to yet another gap in the mountain, another thing that she had to jump over, sighing a little bit, Young Ishi would go for another run and jump, this time carefully managing to make her way to the other side without falling or dropping into the hole, although her feet hurt now and her ankle felt like hell. But.. she was almost there.. she had to keep going. Had to. Taking yet another sip of water, the female would then take a small two minute break, then proceeding to walk the mountain again. This really was harder than she had expected, but she was soon to arrive at the top..

..Or so she hoped, the path was beginning to get more jagged as she went on, which wasn’t a good sign. Maybe.. she should have taken the path to the left she had passed about a hour ago? Taking a deep breath, she would avoid the small holes and large rocks which were spewed across the edge by some sort of rockfall, trying not to trip over anything or fall, since the sky had gotten yet another deeper shade of black, she really didn’t want to get into any accidents, and for the fact that she was so close to her goal anyway. But if she would get in trouble, they’d find her right, if she shouted or something?

Or, that’s what she was hoping. Taking a deep breath, the female would then continue to walk along the slightly jagged path, it becoming a little bit topsy turvy. The path seemed to be going.. downwards, but she kept going forwards, walking along, she needed to go around this corner and then she should be closer to the peak of the mountain. ”I’m almost there..” a little bit of motivation would be spoken as she would continue to try and defeat the perilous mountain that she was currently climbing, only to.. Quickly trip over a rock. When she had expected to land head first on the floor..

..She landed on nothing. She was falling down. Down down down. She could feel the air around her blow past her, as if she was flying somewhat. It was a weird feeling you know, falling downwards head first, especially on a mountain. And there was nothing really Ishi could do about it. She would wave her arms around a bit, trying to grab on to some sort of ledge that would pass her as she descended down the mountain, although she couldn’t find any. And then, she would, finding that she was becoming closer to her doom with every metre that she fell downwards, spiralling, spiralling.. Opened her mouth wide and..

[End of Ishi’s mind theatre]
SCREAMED!

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