Sano Can See...Sort Of

[sano]

Tremor Sense
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: By pouring their chakra into the ground, by using th earth release the user is capable of sensing or seeing in a sense what is along the ground, in the ground, identifying what is around them.
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Drawback: Someone needs to touch the ground in order for the person to see. This means that even the user can see by stepping. This also means that the user must be touching the ground at all times. This technique does not work on water, sand, or metal or ice. Reasons why is because of how each is constructed. The ground is to loose for the user to see the vibrations along the ground, or is to concentrated which creates less vibrations.
Description: When first learned the user is capable of seeing in a radius of five meters. After each time learned it increases by ten meters. When ever the user steps, or when another steps in the radius of tremor sense, the mind of the user picks up the vibrations along the feet creating a somewhat of a picture of the user. Since people have water constricted within their own bodies as well as metalic components of the body a user could see the movements of the body in blur like motion, where they can guess if an attack is coming towards them. This is the beginning stage of the tremor sense technique and is the foundation of the tremor sense techniques. When learned their is a thirty percent chance that the user is capable of defending against melee attacks within arms reach. This however does not mean that after each attack someone comes forth to role a die. It just means that the chances of trying to stop melee attacks is not as well or as concentrated as one would wish it to be.
Limit: Anyone can learn, but it takes an extreme amount of chakra unless they master earth techniques or is part of the Shitakuma clan. Can only be learned if learning the blind way of life.

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Sano stepped outside his house and let his ears survey the area around him. The gennin could hear people bustling around him attempting to finish up whatever work was keeping them outside. By the way people were moving and the subtle feel of the temperature dropping Sano could tell it must be getting dark out. As a shitakuma clan member he couldn’t exactly see being blind so he had to rely on his other senses in order to tell time. Sano was still new to utilizing his heightened abilities to give a different view on sight and therefore he still relied greatly on his other sense to just give him a semblance of what time of day it was and where in the village he was in. Sano would need to sharpen his other version of seeing if he ever planned to leave the village in order to perform missions for the Mizukage. That was why he had stepped out at dusk with people hurrying to get in doors and thus not being in his way as he trains. His father had broken down a rather intricate way of sight that could be made with every step he took. If Sano could master this he would become far more useful in the field and be able to run through the village seeing even further then those of the Hyuuga clan.

Sano put himself in the middle of the road giving him enough space that he wouldn’t accidentally bump into anything before he could begin performing the tremor sense ability and thus lose his concentration and fail before he could even begin. He let his hearing help him give a sense of where he was one last time and then he shut himself down. Sano moved to that place inside him where he went to think and focus sometimes. It was a form of meditation that allowed everything to become deafly quiet. Most people just needed to shut their eyes and for the most part they could make themselves fairly calm and relaxed. Since Shitakuma members saw not with their eyes, but their ears it was a bit more difficult then merely shutting his eyes. Not only that, but their sense of hearing was much greater then an average person’s sense of sight. It had taken training to be able to meditate like this, but it was well worth it because now he was blind to the world.

The shinobi focused everything into that one moment. He pushed his chakra down through his feet and then into the earth. When he was certain he had established a link that would not fade with a twitch in his body he began to take his first step. Sano’s foot lifted off the ground and when it touched down again he felt his chakra shoot out expanding across the ground. Everything the chakra passed popped in his mind, echolocation at its best. The range was small and no sooner had the image appeared that it was gone. His father had explained to him that the image would only appear for a second and it would be up to him to remember the location of things around him. Thankfully Sano had honed his memory and the image stayed with him. He had also been told that when first starting out his “sight” would be limited. Even now with that one step he could only see about 16 feet or so, but even that was more then he had ever seen in his whole lifetime. A small part of Sano that was still childlike reveled in this discovery in this ability.

Sano began walking through the village each step revealing more and more of his surroundings. There was so much he had taken for granted that he could now see perfectly. Sano began sprinting through the village. It took a bit more concentration to keep his senses alive, but completely worth it. 16 feet was plenty to see before him and Sano would make sure that in time he would be able to see much more then that.

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The running was so freeing. Sano sprinted down alleyways and leaped upon buildings every single step lighting up a little more then ten feet in front of him. Sano couldn’t help, but wonder if this is how normal people viewed their world when it was just too dark to see that far in front of their faces. Sano had heard them mention such things before. Had heard villagers complain late at night that it was so dark they could barely see their hand in front of their faces. Sano couldn’t help, but feel a certain kinship to them now seeing as his limited sight was also given him a very small range. If it weren’t for Sano’s excellent reflexes he probably would have collided with one or two things by now. In his mad dash perhaps he had let himself get a bit too excited. Or perhaps he had just underestimated the difficulty of the jutsu and had lost his concentration. Suddenly his sight disappeared as if someone had placed a genjutsu on him in order to play a mean trick. Sano gasped at the realization as he tried to stop himself in mid run. It was too late and the agile Sano who had been running from rooftop to rooftop plummeted down to an alley.

Luckily for Sano there weren’t any obstructions at the bottom for him to collide with. The young boy managed to tumble as he fell taking the brunt of the force away from his body and land unscathed. As he stood upright he heard cats scurrying away darting over walls and towards other alleyways. The gennin must have just missed a trash can on his fall for he didn’t know any other place that the cats would gather so on such a late night. Sano didn’t bother to walk out into the middle of the road again. He positioned himself where he had fallen and thought back to his father’s words. Sano knew he could do it, heck he had it for a while there. Now that Sano had gotten a taste of what sight was he wanted to keep it that way. Once more he still had plans to expand on that sight so failing now was certainly not an option. Sano focused on his breathing letting the intake and exhale of air calm his mind and drift him to that place where he meditated. With his mind now ready he began to prepare his body. He found his center almost picturing the chakra flame that broiled at his core as it did with all living things. Sano then called it forth willing it with gentle persuasion to grow and move outward. It felt as if he was watching it move through his circulatory system and Sano knew exactly when it had reached his feet.

With his mind and body now completely ready for the task at hand it was about time he began training once more. Sano took that first step and once more his world became of sight. In the dark by himself he couldn’t help, but smile ecstatically to himself, a large change from the ever serious boy. He darted out of the alleyway as if wanting to play alley cat with the others. This time he took up the main road sprinting like a mad man in the direction of his house. He did not take to the roofs this time. He merely sprinted at his fastest pace down the road. Eventually his house came into his limited vision and he smiled triumphantly. He had never seen his house before. He stopped and looked at the house from in front of the door and marveled at its simple design, but sense of homeliness.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

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