Flame on! (T)

[Ashi Kemuri Tenma]

Technique being learned: completed

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Katon no Jutsu (Fire 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 Fire. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Fire Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: ---
Heat Mastery, when a user reaches to a point where they gain the full potential and understanding of fire and Heat the user is capable of many things. A technique such as this is a mastery of all Fire Techniques to where they do not have to worry about Minor Burns.

Ashi quickly charged out of the Academy, trying to escape before getting trampled by the little kids who just got out from school. He almost forgot why he had even come to the Academy, but then he remembered: he had needed one of the instructors to teach him how to do the Katon Release. Without fire, his smoking career was already near useless.

Ashi stopped running and slid over to one of the trees close to the entrance of the academy. He caught his breath, then calmed himself. he needed to start on this release as soon as he could, or else he would be even more left behind by the other gennin.

Ashi collected himself and looked at the piece of paper his favored teacher had handed him. at the top, it showed the chakra flow in the body, then gave indications of how to channel the chakra into the release of fire. Pulling out a small pin, Ashi pinned the diagram to the tree's trunk so he could look at it while he started training in it.

Ashi assumed his favored jutsu position: he stood with straight legs and focused his eyes straight forwards, looking at the paper. Slowly controlling his breathing, Ashi moved himself into an even more calm and relaxed state of body and mind. Now, he focused his eyes on the paper.

Quickly feeling into his body with his mind, he felt the chakra flowing freely through him. He channeled it up into his hands, then exhaled. Observing the diagram, he began to slowly perform the handsigns shown. He made sure he had them correct, doing them at the slowest speed 3 times. Then, he performed them slightly faster, making sure to get them right 3 times. Then, faster. However, this time he messed up, so went down in speed and worked on making the symbols comfortable to pull off. He slowly worked himself up to speed, then finally, content with his progress, read the scroll again, glancing over the writing to read what the next step of activating the release was.

Off to the side, the woman who he had been tracking previously now watched him with narrowed eyes. he was the one who had learned a technique simply by watching. Admittedly it was a very easy technique, but still, she wondered how powerful the copied technique could be...

[goliath764]

+8

[Ashi Kemuri Tenma]

Ashi focused on the scroll, his eyes squinting and his forehead showing wrinkles from his concentration. The scroll said for him to move his chakra quickly through certain streams in his throat, chest, arms, and hands in order to increase the power of the chakra and to prevent it from being stationary and immobile.

Makes sense. Ashi thought to himself. I think it means for me to make my chakra like a fire's movement: constantly moving, but never stopping or blowing out. Lets see if I can do this... the rest of the thought drifted off as Ashi focused on the movement of his chakra, the unusual sensation of increased circulation causing an uneasy feeling that did not quickly disappear.

This new feeling bothered Ashi. He had always tried to trust his instincts, but this new feeling felt...bad. However, he was resolute in his determination to learn the release, and so kept going at it, moving his chakra in a flickering, wavelike motion, trying to make his chakra dance like an open candle.

[Ashi Kemuri Tenma]

Ashi kept the circulation going, and his eyes slowly closed. Suddenly, they shot back open and he gasped.

What the HELL? Ashi thought. What was that? While circulating his chakra, he had suddenly hit something that felt like a block. Closing his eyes and concentrating again, he realized the block was the ground around his feet. It felt like a wall of iron: impossibly strong and impenetrable.

Great Ashi thought, now I just need to find a different way to release it . Ashi released control over his body and walked over to the scroll impaled on the tree. He tried reading it again, and found something new that he had not seen before.

The Fire Release is not a technique that is easily unleashed upon the world. One cannot simply push through their body into the open, or else the chakra will flee. Nor will the Earth accept anything but the Fire Release. However, the air will allow the fire to pass through, if only for brief moments.

Well, that was old fashioned but helpful . Ashi stood reading for a second, then collapsed into a sitting position, his legs folded and his head resting on his palm. Hm...how do I DO this? wondered Ashi, who then began to ponder the thoughts the scroll had left him with.

Meanwhile, the woman watching him had sat down in a nearby chair, just out of the range of his vision. She sat smoking on a cigarette, and small animals of smoke jumped and played with each other from the heated end of her cigarette. She watched Ashi, waiting for him to totally give up before she offered ANY help.

[goliath764]

+14

[Ashi Kemuri Tenma]

Ashi sat by himself under the scroll, meditating its meaning for himself.

Ok, so I know I can't use Earth, and it tells me to use Air to channel the release...but how do I release it from my body? It can't go through my feet like Earth, and releasing it from the throat would burn like hell, so...through the hands? Maybe if I convert the chakra right as it passes out of my body I will be unharmed by the flames...

Ashi sat up, now in a stance that looked like a meditating monk. His eyes closed, he began the first part of the release, the blurring motion of handseals. This was then followed by the wave motion of chakra throughout his body, exciting it to a higher level of energy. Finally, inhaling and exhaling slowly, Ashi channeled the excited chakra towards his hands, concentrating hard to make sure it didn't go too fast.

Now came the hardest part for Ashi: the chakra conversion. He knew he had to do it the second it was released from his body, so it would be just beyond his open palms. Breathing slowly, he let a trickle of chakra through and tried to convert it. A little heat was created, but nothing more. Suddenly motivated by the success, he lost his self control, and a whole flood of chakra went shooting out of his hands, being semi-conciously converted.

Needless to say, there was a giant flare of fire.

[goliath764]

Sorry man but it's just not long enough even with the quality and my generosity taken into account...+6

[Ashi Kemuri Tenma]

The flare shot high into the air, the flames steadily rising higher and higher. Ashi started to sag forward, becoming physically exhausted as all of his chakra started to flow out, potentially killing him.

What...am I...missing... he thought to himself. Ashi felt like he was about to pass out, when suddenly a moment of clarity struck him. It was one of those things where some small thing comes into vision perfectly, and you make a realization.

In this case, the thing was a knob of the tree the scroll was pinned to. The bark around it whorled inwards, creating a whirlpool like shape.

Ashi suddenly concentrated as the wheels clicked in his exhausted mind. Using the last of his mental effort, he made the moving chakra into a whirlpool like shape above his hands. Now, instead of rising, the flames were dragged lower and lower by the downwards moving chakra. Slowly, the flames receeded and the chakra returned to it's normal resting state in his veins.

God, that was too close. I'm gonna need some more help with this... Ashi thought, and immediately began to think about the Academy teacher who had given him the scroll. The last thought he had before collapsing from lack of chakra was

Maybe I should have asked for more instruction...

[goliath764]

14+8+6= 28/30 actually

+2 on your last post.

[Ashi Kemuri Tenma]

New technique: completed

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Fire Style: Fire Bolt Technique
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Shoots a very small ball of fire, no larger than a foot in diameter, towards a target.
Special: Rat, Ram, Tiger, extension of one hand
Drawback: When the seals are over, the user extends their hands, shooting the ball of fire from their fingertips, which after repeated use (3 or more times), causes singeing which can slow down the speed of which a user can perform handseals or other finger movements.
Description: The user performs the handseals, converting chakra within the hands into heat energy. The hands are then pointed towards a target and a small bolt of fire, no larger than a foot in diameter, leaves the hand and flies rapidly towards the opponent.
Limit: Fire Release

Ashi woke up slowly: first his eyes opened, then the rest of his body slowly followed suit. Within 10 seconds he was within a sitting position, and was looking at his surrounding environment. The area was all but dark, and there was no moon in the sky to show him anything. It took Ashi a while to remember where he was, but it slowly dawned on him what had happened. He looked down at his hands; they were still a little pink, but there were no serious burns.

"Hm...that was a lot harder than I thought. If I want to learn more Release styles, I should probably have someone who knows them teach me..." Ashi got up and leaned against the tree, his legs almost buckling beneath him. He had been lying on them for almost 5 hours asleep, and so they felt like pins and needles.

Kemuri shivered, his body not nearly as warm as he normally felt. He needed something just to get home. What could he do? Thinking deeply, Kemuri finally decided to do what could possibly be among the stupidest things he had ever done: try to use the fire technique to make some light.

Regaining his composure, Ashi stood up and let out a deep breath, gathering his concentration for the obstacle ahead. Breathing slowly, he slowly sped up the wave motion of his chakra, making sure to keep it under control this time. Finally, he got that feeling he had gotten before, the one that told him it was time to release the chakra as fire.

Gathering all the chakra into his palms, Ashi breathed outwards, and slowly let the chakra drain out of his body, converting it slowly into flame outside his body. Starting off only as a small red glow, the external flame chakra slowly grew into a small fire resting in the palm of Ashi's hand.

Ashi quickly noticed something he hadn't before due to his suprise; like some of the other techniques, he could feel the chakra outside his body! Keeping his concentration on his chakra flow, Kemuri slowly made the rising flames instead spiral inward, this time making a small ball of flame that was in his palm. It only offered brief illumination before Ashi felt his hands beginning to burn. Thinking quickly out of reflex and pain, he pushed his hand outwards, trying to get rid of the ball of fire.

Rather than dissipate like Ashi expected, the ball of flame sped up in its trajectory and crashed into a building wall, creating a small flare as it hit, expanding outwards before vanishing. Ashi ran over to the wall and felt it. he quickly pulled his hand away from the heated, charred wall. Well, that worked.

Trying it again, Ashi found that the ball came to his hand more quickly than it had previously. He felt more comfortable, and the ball took a longer time to burn in his hand. When it did, he tossed it straight upwards. Unlike last time, the ball continued straight up into the air, but then simply puffed out about 5 meters away.

Testing himself, Ashi tried it again, but with a SMALLER ball, trying to focus all of his chakra through his index finger. A tiny gout of flame no larger than a marble burst into existence. However, this one started to sear his fingers almost instantly, so Ashi flicked his finger, shooting the ball away.

Unlike the previously fired flames, this one went shooting off silently. However, it shot off a good deal faster than the other two. Ashi followed it to it's end, then looked at his hand. The hand was turning red, but the index finger was slightly burned. Ashi didn't care though; he had just figured out his first fire technique.

If an observer had been following Ashi or even just watching the strange figure make his way home, they may have been surprised; the figure appeared to be carrying fire and use it as a light. Every so often, it would go shooting off, then come back on.

Finally, Ashi made it to his apartment. Here he let go of the release, his chakra going back to a slow but steady flow. Reaching into his pocket for the keys, he unlocked the door and headed inside, intent on getting some shut eye before tomorrow happened.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

+10

[Ashi Kemuri Tenma]

New Technique: Completed

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Name: Kemuri Enjin (Smoke Rings)
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Generates expanding smoke rings which can be used to increase the likley hood of hitting the opponent with projectiles by adding a reference point. The smoke rings can also be use in conjunction with other techniques.
Special: Snake
Drawback: User loses focus while creating the smoke rings.
Description: The user makes an O with his/her mouth and lifts their tounge to be in the center of their mouth. Then begins to channel chakra into their lungs inorder for the smoke to maintain whole longer. Then the user begins to release the smoke in bursts
Limit: Must be smoking. Must know Ta-ru/ Hari (Tar/ Crystal) Understanding of D-rank or higher.

The next day, approximately noon:

Ashi leaned against the wall of the alley, waiting. Ever since he had first seen that woman pass by 2 days ago, he had been waiting here everyday at the time she had passed in order to try and see her again...and maybe talk to her...

He had been standing there for about an hour, and was now relatively cold. There had been a good layer of fog and cloud cover (like always), and this led to a drop in temperature. Luckily, Kemuri had the foresight to dress warmly, wearing a few layers of clothes to make sure none of the cold tendrils of fog tried to make its way against his skin.

Now getting bored with waiting, Ashi pulled out one of the packets of cigarettes he had bought from the store. This one said it was the normal kind. Pulling one out of the carton after unwrapping it, he stuck it in his mouth, then performed the handseals for the Firebolt technique. A small flame appeared just above his finger, which he used to light the cigarette, then shot straight into the ground. There was a brief -whoosh- as the flame made contact, then only a small blackened area about the diameter of a hackysack.

Puffing on the cigarette, Ashi leaned back against the wall, then burst off coughing and hacking. The woman had walked by and totally caught him by suprise. Not because she had passed, but because she had stopped as he looked, winked at him, then blew a smoke ring straight at him. It expanded as it drew close and puffed out of existence as it reached him. He finally managed to recover and burst out of the alley, but she was nowhere in sight.

However, that was something she had reminded Ashi of. The smoke ring had been pretty cool. Cool enough that Ashi wanted to learn it. It had looked easy, but she was obviously using some kind of chakra: Ashi knew by now that there was no way for smoke to travel that far naturally.

Taking a deep puff, Ashi thought abuot it. Normally, smoke came out as a cloud...so how to make the hole? As he exhaled, Kemuri noticed something slightly off. Every way he moved his tongue minorly changed the shape of the cloud. Thinking relatively quickly, he put two and two together. He put his tongue right in the circle of his mouth as he exhaled, a small ring coming into existence and leaving his mouth due to his efforts. Unfortunately, this ring simply disappeared within a few feet, not covering the dozen or so feet the woman's had.

Ashi focused some of the chakra into his lungs and brathing passages, similar to how he did for the technique that generated a lot more smoke than normal. Quickly releasing that technique, he exhaled a large amount of smoke, and as it passed through his mouth he channeled chakra into it, causing it to be infused with small amounts all the way through.

Ashi watched as the ring came slowly drifting out of his mouth, traveled a few feet, then...stopped? The ring seemed to have completely frozen in place. Watching it carefully, Ashi knocked off the tip of his cigarette, the burnt out shaft falling to the ground. Although he still had about 3/4 of the cigarette left, he felt like he was slowly getting sick, so had little intention of smoking another one. However, he really wanted to get this technique down.

Tenma tried a few more times, and worked out a couple of things for himself. Among the list of new things he had figured out was that it was easiest if he channeled chakra into his tongue and then into the inside ring of the hoop. Although it felt very akward, it worked much better than trying to do it otherwise. Another thing he figured out was that the amount of chakra used was directly related to the length of time the smoke ring lasted for and how far it could travel. He found that by controlling his chakra, he could slightly move the rings once they were outside his body, and slowly made them able to turn slightly.

As opposed to his first attempt, where a negligible amount of chakra had been spent, this time Ashi spent a good jutsu's worth of chakra, just to see what would happen. Using a french inhale, he expelled the most amount of smoke yet to be seen from him, shooting it straight up into the sky into an ever expanding ring. It was followed by one more, then the cigarette burned out, but the rings that had been created were of larger than decent size, the first one (that had used a good portion of Ashi's chakra) was about 5 feet in diameter, large enough that he could walk through it almost comfortably (provided he crouched down a decent amount).

Considering it a cigarette well spent, Ashi decided to head over and try his luck back at the Academy; maybe he could ask the Academy teacher to help him draw some kind of relation between the fire and smoke he now possessed.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

+10

[Ashi Kemuri Tenma]

New Technique: completed

First time learning (D rank)

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Name: Kiyomeru Haizou (Cleanse Lungs)
Rank: D, C, B, A, S
Skill: Supplementry, Offensive
Effect: Cleans the lungs of the build up of tar, or removes the crystalization of lungs from menthol cigarettes. Every ten percent increases the abillity to fight by 3% due to increased amount of air entering the lungs.

-D-Rank: Removes 20% of tar and crystalization from the lungs.
-C-Rank: Removes 30% of tar and crystalization from the lungs.
-B-Rank: Removes 50% of tar and crystalization from the lungs.
-A-Rank: Removes 70% of tar and crystalization from the lungs.
-S-Rank: Removes 90% of tar and crystalization from the lungs.

Special: Dragon Seal (Hold)
Drawback: Takes three minutes to complete. Causes a moderate amount of pain. After preforming the user must remain inacctive while he/she recovers their breath.
Description: First the user takes a deep breath of fresh air. Then holds the air in, meanwhile he/she begins to focus chakra into the air. When the air is full of chakra the user begins to rotate the air in their lungs at a generaly increasing rate. Once the air has reached a larger rotational speed the user begins to filter air in and out of the lungs quickly, thus giving oxygen to the body, while pulling out tar when it reenters. As the air begins to get full of tar, the tar begins to rub off the crystalization. Finally the user "vomits" the Tar and crystals out of their body, filling their mouth with the foul taste of the tar. This technique doesn't remove all of the tar though. Afterward the user muust regain their breath. But will be able to notice an increase in breathing abillity.
Limit: Must be a smoker. Must know same rank Ta-ru/ Hari (Tar/ Crystal) Understanding.

Ashi arrived at the Academy, taking about 20 minutes to make it across the sprawling city to the smallish school. He now realized that the teacher wouldn't be able to help him right now: he was TEACHING. Yeah, Kemuri probably should have planned ahead...

Slightly bummed, he started walking back to the town when he saw a small smoke ring floating gently through the air towards him. It quickly faded out, but another one was behind it. In fact, it was...a trail of smoke rings? Obviously, someone wanted him to follow them, and follow them he would: anyone who could do this must obviously know other things that Tenma could use.

Following the trail of smoke, he arrived at an old fashioned dojo. A figure sat outside, watching him come in and still sending the smoke rings at him from a pipe that was sitting in her...mouth... it was the woman! The one who had inspired him to use smoke!

Walking up to her, he bowed in front of her and then sat down cross legged and watched her. She opened her eyes and seemed a little startled that he was sitting there.

"Wow...you caught on quickly. It only took about 1/2 an hour for you to come here; I thought you wouldn't make it period," she said sarcastically. She blew some smoke straight into his face, smiling slightly as she watched him cough from it.

"So why were you watching me before?" she asks, remaining in the reclined position.

"Because I wanted to learn more from watching you. The techniques you use are an insiration to me. Do they have a name?" Ashi asked, his eyes filled with enthusiasm, a rare emotion in him.

"What, you never heard of the Smoker's Clan before? By the way, it is polite to introduce oneself. My name is Sakura Sumo-ka. Yours is...?" she trailed off, expecting an answer.

"I go by the name of Ashi, if you want" he replied, then continued by saying "and I hope you could train me."

"Well," Sakura said, getting into the mood, "it will require rigorous training. And by that I mean sure. Most of the techniques are pretty easy to learn." However, she suddenly looked at Kemuri with a strange look.

"Have you tried any of the techniques, and felt short of breath afterwards?"

"Now that you mention it, it has felt a little harder to breathe..." Kemuri trailed off as Sakura stood up. She was a shorter woman, but not extreme. She was definitely beautiful.

"Good, so here is the first lesson: smoking is bad. The tar from cigarettes and cigars will build up in your lungs if you do not pay careful attention to your health, and you will get such things as cancer or breathing problems. However, there are ways of countering it. One such way is the Lung Cleansing technique. I will demonstrate." Sakura made the dragon handsign, then stood still. A look of extreme concentration appeared on her face, and for 3 minutes she stood almost absolutely still. Then, she suddenly coughed- no, vomited out a ball of black goo. She shuddered afterwards, and took a sip of water from a bottle on the deck of the dojo.

"See that?" she said, pointing to the hideous mass of tar. "That is what is in your lungs. You need to make sure you empty your lungs every so often or you will find yourself failing otherwise easy physical challenges. So this is a must-know technique for you."

She motioned for Kemuri to get up, and as soon as he was standing she took on the airs of a teacher.

"First, draw in a deep breath." Kemuri breathed in heavily, greedily sucking in as much air as he could.

"Now make the dragon handsign." Kemuri quickly complied, his fingers nimbly going to the familiar hangsign.

"Now focus your chakra into your lungs. Make the air in there rotate, and imagine yourself cleaning out the buildup by sucking it into the rotating ball. Do this for a couple of minutes, to make sure you get all of it". Kemuri did this and almost gagged. It was harder than it looked; if you pushed too hard it became superbly painful, but too light and there would be no effect. However, Ashi finally got the hang of it and could actually FEEL himself breathing better. He finally couldnt do it anymore, and looked pleadingly at Sakura.

"now exhale with force. Push all that buildup out of your body." Complying easily, Kemuri's exhalation of the tar was made easier by the throwing up motions caused by the taste of the tar in his mouth. Seeing his discomfort, Sakura handed him a waterbottle. Deeply grateful, Kemuri gulped it down, swishing to try and get rid of that horrid aftertaste.

Finally, it was gone. Sakura looked over at Kemuri with a praising look.

"I rarely say this, but you are quite a quick learner. Feel free to come by anytime to learn more techniques. I am free most of the days this time of year, since the family isn't visiting."

Thanking her and promising to return tomorrow, Kemuri left the dojo after bowing to her, a formal gesture that marked his respect for her advice. Promising to himself to get something for her before his next return, Kemuri headed towards the Academy again, as the lunch break was starting and Kemuri MIGHT just be able to snag a teacher as he left to go grab something to eat.

[✗ Kaeor ✗]

+10 !

[Ashi Kemuri Tenma]

New Technique: 0/30

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Smoke Guide
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Guides fire techniques through a series of smoke loops.
Special: Dragon, Bird, Tiger
Drawback: Smoke does not damage. Auto dissolves after three posts from the user, or three fire techniques.
Description: Shoots multiple smoke rings that are infused with chakra. These smoke rings guide any fire technique from the same user through them in the order they were sent out. These rings do not dissolve for three posts due to being infused with chakra.
Limit: Release: Katon (Fire)

Arriving back just as the Fire teacher was leaving, Kemuri was lucky to have caught him.
"Hey, you! Yeah, you! Help me with something before you go!" The teacher sighed as Kemuri shouted this to him, but he did stop, waiting for Kemuri to catch up.
"What do you want, Ashi?" the teacher replied irately.
"I want a new technique that will allow me to combine smoke and fire!" Kemuri said, his eyes still possessing that eager shine they seemed to be filled with recently.
"Hm...smoke and fire...Actually, I do know one that you can use!" the teacher said, his face going from a look of concentration to that of sly intelligence. "It is called Smoke Guide, and actually seems to fit your personality."
"TEACH ME!" Kemuri was now estatic; he felt like he was getting stronger by the second. Over the past 2 days or so he had learned almost as many new techniques as he had during his entire time at the academy. Of course, in the academy he hadn’t cared, but now he did for reasons unknown to others…

“Ok, just give me a second. Come with me,” the teacher said, walking back into the school and going to his classroom. He walked to the desk in the front of the room and opened the file cabinet, going through rows upon rows of scrolls to try and find the one containing the new technique.

“Smoke…Smoke…got it!” the teacher said, his voice betraying his fake enthusiasm. He pulled out a scroll that was in relatively good condition. He tossed it to Kemuri and started to leave.

“If you have any questions, find someone else to answer them. I’m going to lunch.” The teacher said as he left, leaving Kemuri in the classroom by himself.

[Ashi Kemuri Tenma]

Opening the scroll, Kemuri immediately became totally engrossed. He poured over the multiple lines of instructions. Doing his preparation as normal, he read the entire scroll then set it on an empty expanse of floor, allowing him to read it when he was standing. Now ready, he began to learn the technique.
First, as always, Kemuri tried to calm his breathing. It took a much longer time due to his excitement, but he slowly got his rhythm under control, and was soon in a meditative state. Now calm and collected, he opened his eyes and looked at the scroll. The top line described the jutsu, saying that it essentially worked as a beacon to direct fire techniques.
His eyes scanning through the paragraph, Kemuri finally noticed the line describing the series of handsigns needed in order to do the jutsu. It said to start with Dragon, then shift quickly to Bird, and resolve to Tiger. Although he was a good ninja, Kemuri always felt that his major weakness was that he hurried in his actions; because of that, he always made sure to get the training correct so the techniques would not fail, especially when he needed them most in battle. Slowly reading the one line over and over, Kemuri memorized the order and imagined correctly doing the handsigns in order. Now following through, Kemuri did the hand signs one at a time with painstakingly slow and deliberate motions, his motions appearing like a Tai Chi user. He slowly performed the handsigns, speeding them up slowly with each performance. Within two minutes they were a normal speed, and a minute after they were second nature to Ashi.

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Now came the next part: channeling the chakra. This was the part where Kemuri needed to look over the scroll a multitude of times in order to make sure he performed the jutsu correctly. He sat down and read over the scroll, his finger trailing along with the words as he read, just to make sure he didn’t miss a line or some other fatal mistake. Apparently, the way this jutsu worked was like a needle threader: by placing chakra into smoke rings as he released them from his mouth and by changing the frequency of the chakra in the rings, he would be able to make fire techniques travel to the determined ring, like a dog to a bell. Finished reading the overview of the chakra segment, Tenma started to try it.
First off, he had to do the fire release. Tenma started the chakra into the wave motion in his body; strangely, every time he used it, he could do it faster and with less resistance. Maybe familiarity was breeding ability? Whatever the case, it took no longer than a second for his chakra to begin moving throughout his body like a wave. Now focusing on certain points, he directed part of this summoned energy towards his respiratory system. The chakra aligned with his throat and tongue, the wave vibrations making an odd sensation in his mouth. According to the scroll, this was the proper way to do it. Now all Ashi needed to do was combine them all and use the different parts together.

[Ashi Kemuri Tenma]

Pulling out a cigarette and lighting it with a match, Ashi started a cycle of inhaling the smoke. When he was in a rhythm, he performed the handseals and immediately started the wave motions in his mouth. Now, he exhaled the smoke. As it passed by his tongue in the center of his mouth, multiple levels of chakra were released into the smoke. A small set of rings flew out of his mouth and drifted away. Ashi directed them by controlling his external chakra, and managed to make them stop in a circle above his head. Now all that was left was for Ashi to test and see if he had done this correctly…

Releasing the Fire bolt Technique, Kemuri concentrated until a small ball of flame was sitting just above his palm. Feeling it start to heat up his hand, he extended his arm, tossing the condensed flame straight into the air. It shot up, but suddenly started to move at an angle. Instead of shooting into the ceiling, it curved, passing through the first smoke hoop. Then it circled around and passed through the second. It rose slightly to pass through the third, and finally headed towards the fifth.

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While it was moving, Kemuri finally understood the principle. By encouraging the fireball to seek levels of chakra, he could direct it toward the smoke rings, going from the ring with the least imbued chakra to the one with the most. Swallowing his silent pride, Kemuri focused and moved the fourth hoop to just above his head, making it look like a halo.
The fireball curved downwards and Tenma could feel the heat on his head as the fireball zoomed over head then passed through the hoop. Its long trial of obstacles completed, the fireball continued on the trajectory of the last hoop, firing straight into the ceiling and leaving a hardly noticeable mark.

Surprised by how well he had done, Ashi tried to change things up. Creating another fireball, he shot it straight into the air, but tried to alter the order of rings it passed. However, it seemed as though it always passed through them in the order they had left his mouth, starting with the first ring of smoke and ending with the last one. After this second fireball passed through its obstacle course, the rings of smoke began to dissolve into the air. Obviously, they wouldn’t have enough chakra to stay in that position for long; they would only be able to last about 20 seconds, by Ashi’s reckoning.

With the cigarette now totally smoked, Ashi smothered its glowing end into his hand. It hurt, but not by much. Besides, he needed to be tougher…and there was nowhere else to set it out… Smiling to himself despite the pain, Ashi wandered out of the classroom, content in his realization that he now possessed a trick that truly made him a danger to his enemies.