Ruined Garden [T, P]

[daisy]

Off with their Heads!
Rank: ('D') 'D' 'D' 'D' 'D'
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: "Beheads" flowers. 20 flowers in a location 5 meters from the user for first D rank. Add 20 flowers and one meter for each rank trained into. Maximum 5.
Special: Handseals- Monkey
Drawback: ---
Description: Forcing their chakra into the roots of the hanakora flowers, the user is able to send the energy up through the stem into the base of the flower. This sudden burst of energy will cause the blossom to shoot off of the plant into the air (height dictated by the user and how much pressure they used). This jutsu can be learned 4 additional times for a total of 100 flowers. Each time this jutsu is relearned, they gain an additional meter of range aswell (max 10).
Limit: Hanakora Clan

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Shiki loved this place. It was really only a few crumbling stone walls and statues, all drenched in rain, of course, but flowers bloomed almost everywhere, apart from the old stone paths, and their presence gave the whole garden a beautiful and melancholy atmosphere. Treading carefully among the slippery stones, she made her way over to a broken bust of some beautiful woman, parasol resting on her shoulder to shield her from the rain. Sitting down on the broken statue, she ran her hand through the flowers nearby and began focusing her chakra. She focused on the fragile stems of the flowers, snapping one off in her hand.

The jutsu she practiced was one to sever the head from the stem, allowing the blossoms to be used in other jutsu. Placing the snapped head beside her, she placed her hand on another flower stem, instead of breaking it with her fingers, concentrating on breaking it with only her chakra. The little girl had excellent chakra control, genjutsu one of her strong points, and as such, it was rather easy to focus her chakra at the tips of her fingers, and then force it into the healthy green stem of the plant. With just a little push, forcing her energy into the stem, she managed to snap it with a small popping noise, the blossom tumbling to the wet earth.

Shiki didn't particularly enjoy destroying flowers meaninglessly, but she would always grow new ones where she used the existing ones. One of the benefits of being experienced in the ways of the Hanakora clan! Shiki new the jutsu required her to snap the stems without touching them, however, and so she raised her hand in the air, focusing on snapping the stem of the nearest flower. Performing the handseals for the first time, the Monkey, she then concentrated on sending her chakra into the roots of the target flower. It was always harder without a physical connection, the girl had found as she sent her chakra through the constant rain and into the flower roots.

However, as she pushed, she felt her chakra pour into the flower, heading straight for the stem and snapping the head clean off, the bloom shooting into the air briefly, before dropping back to earth. The little kunoichi giggled, pleased with her progress. But she knew she'd have to manage the technique on multiple flowers. As such, she performed her handseals once more, then sent her chakra into the air again. She then chose a few flowers, and branched off her chakra mid air, targetting all of them at once. As before, her energy poured into the plants, and snapped the blossoms clean off of the stems. Really, it wasn't so hard.

[yets3]

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[daisy]

Off with their Heads!
Rank: (D) ('D') 'D' 'D' 'D'
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: "Beheads" flowers. 20 flowers in a location 5 meters from the user for first D rank. Add 20 flowers and one meter for each rank trained into. Maximum 5.
Special: Handseals- Monkey
Drawback: ---
Description: Forcing their chakra into the roots of the hanakora flowers, the user is able to send the energy up through the stem into the base of the flower. This sudden burst of energy will cause the blossom to shoot off of the plant into the air (height dictated by the user and how much pressure they used). This jutsu can be learned 4 additional times for a total of 100 flowers. Each time this jutsu is relearned, they gain an additional meter of range aswell (max 10).
Limit: Hanakora Clan

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So, it was easy enough to snap a few blossoms off, but Shiki needed to be able to do it en mass, if it was to be of any use. Getting up from the broken statue, readjusting her parasol on her shoulder so as to shield herself better from the rain, the little girl walked to the center of the garden, stepping up onto a crumbling plinth that used to house a beautiful and ornate fountain. She regarded the lush and wild flowers growing throughout the ruins, and settled her gaze on a patch of dark red and purple ones, glistening in Ame's almost constant rains.
"M'kay prettypretty flowers, ready to pop?" Shiki murmured, before making sure her parasol was secure under her arm, and forming the required handseals. Holding the Monkey seal, the little kunoichi closed her eyes, concentrating on the necessary flow of chakra. Targetting the whole patch of flowers took much more effort, after all.

Imagining her chakra flowing gently from her body, she tried to direct it, sending it towards the beautiful plants. Shiki could swear she felt the connection when her chakra hit their lush green stems, and she focused on moving her chakra up towards the blossoms. When her energy reached just below the vivid blooms, she imagined a detonater in her mind, and quickly pushed down the handle. At once, the head of every single flower in that patch popped straight off, most flying straight up in the air as was her intention. A few, however, merely toppled to the ground, followed soon after by the successful ones, not managing to stay in the air for more than a second or two. Regardless, the little girl was rather pleased with her progress. There had been at least 15 flowers in that patch alone, and managing to sever every single blossom was quite the achievement. Or so she told herself.

Turning her attention, the little kunoichi focused now on a patch of flower roughly the same size, growing up around what used to be quite a tall wall, or so she supposed. Regardless of the previous height of the stone rubble, Shiki performed the handseals same as before, holding the Monkey as she once again closed her eyes and concentrated on her chakra flow. It was easier this time, as was to be expected, sending her chakra out in the direction required and branching it off from itself, spreading it evenly towards every flower in the patch. When she was sure she had sent enough, she directed her energy, as before, towards the beautiful blooms, targetting the area just below the first petals. It happened even faster than before. Almost instantly, as her chakra reached the stems and the designated area, Shiki sent a powerful surge into each plant.

Almost inaudiably, every single bloom flew up into the air, spinning and twirling as the gently descended to earth. The kunoichi grinned widely, giggling a little at her own talent.
"Nyoro~n! Easy easy!" She smirked, releasing her handseals and watching the beautiful flowers drift softly to the sodden earth. However, the two beds she had used for her practicing now looked very bare and melancholy. As such, with a few handseals, and a hold of the Serpent, she channeled her chakra back to the barren areas, flooding the area with her sparkling energy. Instantaneously, brand new flowers sprung up where she had used the existing ones, blossoming into the fresh rains.
"So pretty~! Oh, i'm good." Shiki giggled to herself, twirling the parasol above her head as she regarded the replenished garden, beautiful with new blossoms, and scattered with the fallen heads of the old ones.

[▐Shibu]

Learned.

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[daisy]

Off with their Heads!
Rank: (D), (D), (D) 'D' 'D'
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: "Beheads" flowers. 20 flowers in a location 5 meters from the user for first D rank. Add 20 flowers and one meter for each rank trained into. Maximum 5.
Special: Handseals- Monkey
Drawback: ---
Description: Forcing their chakra into the roots of the hanakora flowers, the user is able to send the energy up through the stem into the base of the flower. This sudden burst of energy will cause the blossom to shoot off of the plant into the air (height dictated by the user and how much pressure they used). This jutsu can be learned 4 additional times for a total of 100 flowers. Each time this jutsu is relearned, they gain an additional meter of range aswell (max 10).
Limit: Hanakora Clan

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The rain never seemed to lessen while Shiki trained. Perhaps it was simply the nature of the Land of Rain, rather aptly named, but the little kunoichi couldn't help feel as if the dreary weather liked to center upon her efforts to train. Regardless, one couldn't simply give up on an endevour due to heavy rain. And so, she continued to work hard in the little, broken down garden. Having grown a host of new flowers, Shiki decided to try her jutsu on an even greater number of flowers than before, as it really seemed the best way to improve.
"Okay darlings. Lets become severed easily today!" She murmured, not entirely sure why she was addressing the flowers before her. At any rate, once more, her handseals were formed. Holding the Monkey seal, Shiki concentrated on her chakra yet again, finding it easier and easier to direct it through the downpour towards her blossoming targets.

The flowers seemed to bend to her will, and she wasn't sure if this was her imagination at work, or an actual fact, due to her mastery of the Hanakora arts. When she felt her youthful energy connect with the vibrant plants, coming together just below the bloom, focused on the destruction of the slender stem, Shiki made sure she had hold of many more flowers than before. She imagined her chakra as a shimmering fist, clutching at the stem of each flower, ready to crush the fragile green stalk on her command.
"Aaaand... snap~!" She hissed, squeezing down hard on each and every flower in her chakra's grasp. The little girl was attempting her jutsu on two different patches of flowers at once, splitting her chakra evenly, and spreading it amongst the sodden blossoms. She wasn't entirely sure just how well it would work, as she had only tried it on one patch at a time previously.

To her surprise, the jutsu seemed to affect both patches, but in no way evenly. In the first patch of flowers, every single blossom snapped cleanly from the stem, the petals and head shooting up into the air, exactly like she intended. However, in the second patch, which she had apparently not been focusing hard enough on, the blossoms merely tumbled from the stalks, and some of the stems were only bent or crumpled, Shiki not managing to even severe the head.
"Oh. That didn't work as well as i'd hoped." She said thoughtfully, watching one particularly lame flower topple sideways from her ministrations. Obviously, another attempt was needed, and as such, Shiki first held the Serpent handseal, restoring the ravaged flower patches to their original beauty with brand new Hanakora blooms.

"One more time with feeling~!" The kunoichi giggled, closing her eyes and adjusting her parasol in preparation. For what seemed like the hundredth time, Shiki formed the necessary handseals, ending on, and holding, the Monkey seal as her chakra flowed from her body. She didn't open her eyes during this, as she thought if she could not see the patches, she wouldn't end up focusing on one as before. Splitting her chakra evenly, she sent it to each patch, flooding the flowers with her energy, and concentrating, as always, on their stems. When she was satisfied her energy was clutching at every stalk in each patch, she gave a little grunt, effectively activating the jutsu. Opening her eyes finally, Shiki grinned widely as she saw every single bloom twirling in the air, gently descending as the effects wore off.
"Quite perfect. Thank you darlings." She said, posturing in a rather posh tone, for some reason.

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10 my dear

[daisy]

Off with their Heads!
Rank: (D), (D), (D), (D) 'D'
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: "Beheads" flowers. 20 flowers in a location 5 meters from the user for first D rank. Add 20 flowers and one meter for each rank trained into. Maximum 5.
Special: Handseals- Monkey
Drawback: ---
Description: Forcing their chakra into the roots of the hanakora flowers, the user is able to send the energy up through the stem into the base of the flower. This sudden burst of energy will cause the blossom to shoot off of the plant into the air (height dictated by the user and how much pressure they used). This jutsu can be learned 4 additional times for a total of 100 flowers. Each time this jutsu is relearned, they gain an additional meter of range aswell (max 10).
Limit: Hanakora Clan

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Although, really, Shiki had this jutsu down, there was still, as was usually the case, room for improvement. The little kunoichi didn't particularly mind training, as such, but when it was continuous, and involving the exact same elements, it obviously became tedious at points. However, the aim was to grow stronger, and it could not be accomplished in any other way, not really. And so, she hopped down off her broken pedestal, and strolled a little way out of the garden, before turning to face it in all its rain-drenched beauty. Narrowing her eyes, she glared at the rows of flowers ringing the ruins, the ones she was standing amongst now.
"I'm afraid you're the first to fall~!" She warned them, a rather melancholy smile on her face as she brought her hands up and began the handseals she now knew so well.

And again, the necessary signs of the zodiac were formed, ending with the mischevious and bold monkey. Upon the formation of this particular handseal, Shiki's chakra began its journey towards the beautiful and sodden blossoms. The row just before her contained about 30 flowers, she estimated, although it was more of a vague guess than any kind of informed appraisal. Regardless of the precise amount of flowers, these were the target for her airbourne chakra, and as her energy sped towards them, she concentrated on the fragile green stems that were the key to this jutsu. Upon her chakra reaching the plants, she gathered it just beneath the bloom of each flower. And, as she did every time, she prepared to snap the blossoms free from the earthbound stems.
"Here we go~!" Shiki cried, before completing the jutsu.

To the little girl's delight, all thirty of the flowers reacted perfectly, the heads all shooting up in almost perfect unison, while the slender green stems swayed unconsolably, left behind rooted in the soil. The Rain kunoichi couldn't help giggling. The sight of thirty vivid blossoms spinning in the air above the stems they were originally connected to was both pretty and rather odd at the same time. Of course, performing the jutsu but one time was no way to practice furthering it, and as such, she watched the flower heads flutter to earth once more, as she now concentrated on the row directly behind them. Closing one eye, Shiki attempted to ascertain the number of flowers that made up this next row. Perhaps due to the heavy rain obscuring her vision somewhat, or, more likely, due to her being terrible with numbers and in fact most kinds of information, she guessed somewhere in the region of fifty flowers. Which may or may not have been completely wrong.

"Whatever! Let's go again!" She said, shaking her head a little beneath her parasol. And yet again, her familiar handseals were nimbly formed by slender fingers, and the little girl liked to imagine she saw the second row of flowers shivering and quaking as they awaited their fast-approaching death by decapitation. Ignoring how the flowers actually felt, however, Shiki concentrated once more on her chakra as it shot towards them, enveloping the entire row with relative ease. Upon flowing over each flower, Shiki noted the hotspot just below the blossom, at the peak of the stalk. There, she gathered chakra each time, and when every flower was ready, she activated the jutsu, and once more, it worked to perfection. She watched with glee as whatevernumberitreallywas of blossoms shot up into the air, dancing and twirling in their short flights. This jutsu was really rather lovely.

[eclipse]

watwat.

+10.

[daisy]

Off with their Heads!
Rank: (D), (D), (D), (D), (D)
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: "Beheads" flowers. 20 flowers in a location 5 meters from the user for first D rank. Add 20 flowers and one meter for each rank trained into. Maximum 5.
Special: Handseals- Monkey
Drawback: ---
Description: Forcing their chakra into the roots of the hanakora flowers, the user is able to send the energy up through the stem into the base of the flower. This sudden burst of energy will cause the blossom to shoot off of the plant into the air (height dictated by the user and how much pressure they used). This jutsu can be learned 4 additional times for a total of 100 flowers. Each time this jutsu is relearned, they gain an additional meter of range aswell (max 10).
Limit: Hanakora Clan

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Hopefully, and probably, as the little kunoichi had faith in her abilities, this would be the last time she'd need to train this particular jutsu. Stepping lightly, Shiki made her way back to the center of the garden, hopping back up onto the crumbling pedestal. Her parasol still present on her shoulder, and the rains still pouring down as always, she breathed deeply and closed her eyes. Of course, such a jutsu didn't require that kind of mental preparation, she just felt she ought to center herself before completing her training. Or something of the sort. Opening her eyes when she was sufficiently calm, Shiki surveyed the garden. The majority of the flowers were within ten meters of the girl, as it was a rather small garden, although sprawling with flowers, and as such, if she tried hard enough, the kunoichi was sure she could perform her jutsu on almost every blossom present!

Taking in all the flowers with a glance, Shiki then performed the handseals necessary once again, and when her nimble fingers had formed the Monkey, she concentrated on sending her chakra flowing evenly out of herself. She had to emnate the energy in all directions, effectively spreading it across the whole garden, if she was to successfully sever every single flower head.
"Okay! Every single one of you! And here we go!" Shiki called out to nobody in particular. The flowers didn't appear to be paying much attention to the little girl, but it didn't stop her from continuing her chakra flow. Once she was satisfied she had covered every flower in the area, at least to the best of her ability, she began focusing on the required area of the stem.

Gathering her chakra beneath every single blossom, Shiki remained quiet and still, as it was taking more concentration than she had anticipated to keep her chakra spread evenly about the garden, and even more to focus on the stem rather than just the flower as a whole. When she was convinced she had them all under her control, she took a deep breath and activated the jutsu. All at once, the blossoms of every single flower shot up into the air, petals dancing everywhere amongst the heavy rain. It was quite a beautiful sight, the garden becoming bare in an instant, the air full of spinning flower heads.
"Chaaaaaa~! Oh snap i'm killer." Shiki said boisterously, releasing her handseals and placing her hands on her slender hips. As the blooms descended to earth, Shiki was already performing the Serpent handseal. It was time to replenish the beautiful garden!

And with some more chakra, brand new Hanakora flowers sprouted up where only bare stems had been before. With a little frown, Shiki decided to attempt her new jutsu just one more time. Practice made perfect, right? And so, switching from the rather sneaky and poisonous Serpent, to the much more friendly Monkey, Shiki once again focused on her chakra, finding it much easier this time to send her chakra out evenly, covering all the new flowers present without too much trouble. And with that done, for the last time, Shiki concentrated on that key spot on the stem, just below the blossom. With a small smile, her jutsu was activated, and for the second time, the ruined garden erupted with colour and life as the blooms spiralled into the air. Twirling around amid the falling blossoms, Shiki couldn't help giggle.
"Thanks for all your help~!" She said happily, bowing to the garden she had just ruined.

[yets3]

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[daisy]

Genwaku Haibun no Jutsu - (Blinding Deafening Technique)
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: Causes Blindness, or Defness upon a person for an amount of time.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: The user is only capable of using one technique at a time, this means that if a user uses one form either Blinding or Deafening against a few or one opponent, the user is unable to turn and start using the other on the same or even a different opponent. The user's hand must touch the ground and must stay along the ground, which may keep them somewhat vulnerable if the time is finally done.
Description: The user performs a few handseals as they slam their hand down against the very ground. The user spreads forth their chakra in a hundred foot radius from them as they create an illusion within that dome. That illusion messes with one of the two senses of the human body. One is the sense of Site, and the other is the sense of Sound. Those who step into this radius will be affected by the illusion as the user picks one of the two they wish to have stricken away from the opponents. The illusion is that they cannot see, nor hear within the very radius and are unable to understand all around as the one of the two senses is disrupted. If the opponents leave the radius, or if the user removes their hand the opponents is still under the illusion for still one round. For every Class that the user is the distance that the radius can be increased is by twenty feet. If the user is a GenJutsu Specialist, however the distance increases by twenty-five feet, while a GenJutsu Master is increased by thirty feet.
Limit: Must know Pattern Perception of Genjutsus

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For this particular jutsu, it was necessary to leave the melancholy tranquility of her little ruined garden, and find some unsuspecting passers-by to practice on. Heading into the nearest village, a bustling trading post, Shiki watching people scurry by in the rain, most with umbrellas open above their heads, or hoods pulled up as far as they went. Loitering beside the main street, under the canopy of some kind of tearoom, Shiki rested with her slender back against the wall, simply watching.

"M'kay, you poor, unsuspecting fools, prepare for trouble! The little girl giggled, as she knelt down. Taking a deep breath and focusing her chakra, the kunoichi then performed the necessary handseals. Only a few seconds later, her nimble hands finishing the required movements, she slammed her palm down against the ground, and looked up to see if her technique had the desired effect. To her dismay, not a single scurrying person seemed to change in their actions at all!

Well, that was annoying. Although, perhaps attempting the deafening aspect of the jutsu had not been the best idea? After all, in such heavy rain, and with people focusing only on where they were going, somebody losing hearing may not be easy to pick out. And so, undeterred, Shiki simply focused her energy, and tried once more. She performed the same set of handseals as before, but this time, she concentrated on the eyes of these unsuspecting people, thinking about how to obstruct their sight with this illusion of hers.

Her handseals finished, and this thought in her mind, she once again slammed her palm down against the ground, and looked out across the street to see if she had succeeded in affecting anyone. To the girl's great annoyance, not a single person veered off course, bumped into anything, or even yelled out in surprise! This was simply no good.
"Oooh, what's wrong with you? You should all be falling about at this point!" She exclaimed, incredibly annoyed at her apparent failure.

[daisy]

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Removing her palm from the rather damp earth, Shiki took a moment to consider the technique. Perhaps her failure had been a result of her focusing too intently on the individual people? After all, the technique used a kind of 'dome' of her chakra, and as such, if she focused on forming that, perhaps the people inside would be affected more easily than if she concentrated on them individually?

At any rate, she had nothing to lose while training, and as such, she closed her eyes, inhaled, and ran through the handseals once more. For the third time, her hand was pressed to the ground, but this time, instead of concentrating on the eyes of the people dashing past, the little kunoichi focused on her own chakra, and expanding the dome as it emnated from her small frame. She found this easier, as pushing out her chakra evenly around her was simpler than trying to direct it to the necessary points on the fast moving people she was practicing.

To the little girl's delight, as her chakra dome moved to encompass the closest person to her, an old woman with a shawl wrapped about her head, gave a small shriek and stopped with her scurrying. Her wizened old hands flew up to her face, and waved frantically about her eyes, almost as if she couldn't see them! Shiki couldn't help giggle wildly at this poor woman's distress, and as such, she couldn't focus on her expanding dome of chakra, and it shrunk back towards her.

Once the dome receeded past the old lady, the genjutsu was broken, and her eyesight was restored. She cried a thank to the heavens, and pressed a hand to her chest, where no doubt her old heart was beating furiously. Really, she could've had a heart attack, thought Shiki, with some sense of guilt. Regardless, it seemed like an improvement! At least she knew she was capable of performing the technique well, it was simply a matter of expanding the range and control. This wouldn't be too hard!

[✗ Kaeor ✗]

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[daisy]

Color Spray
Rank: "B"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: A Jutsu where the user creates a vivid cone of clashing colors springs forth from the user's hand, causing creatures to become stunned, perhaps also blinded, and possibly knocking them unconscious.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: A vivid cone of clashing colors springs forth from your hand, causing creatures to become stunned, perhaps also blinded, and possibly knocking them unconscious. Depending on the strength of the opponent and the strength of the user depends on how well this technique works upon them. If the opponent is the same class level as that of the user or below the opponent becomes unconscious, blinded, and stunned for six rounds, then when they wake they will be blinded and stunned for two rounds, and then only stunned for one round. If the opponent is one or two classes stronger then that of the user then they are blinded and stunned for four rounds, then stunned for one round additionally. If the opponent is three to four class levels higher then that of user the opponent is only stunned for one round. This technique happens only within a burst of a cone like shape within thirty meters of range.
Limit: Must have Pattern Perception

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Shiki yawned, perched on a crumbling statue in her favourite garden. Or, favourite remains of a garden. A small scroll was held lightly in her hand, while the other was adjusting the yellow ribbons in her hair. Today had been an early morning, and the little kunoichi still wasn't fully awake. Running her sleepy eyes over the technique, the kunoichi tried to grasp it.
"A vivid cone of clashing colours...?" She murmured.

Essentially, she had to conjure up lights and energy in her hands, then launch it at her opponent, it seemed. For a higher ranked jutsu, it was relatively straight forward. So, hopping lightly off of her seat, the little kunoichi recalled elements of the basic 'Dazzling Lights' jutsu. Since the main challenge in this jutsu appeared to be gathering the necessary power in the user's palms, it made sense to start with a jutsu doing just that.

So, to begin with, she performed the necessary handseals, quickly and elegantly, however, instead of leaping straight into performing the technique, she instead thought of the 'Dazzling Lights' jutsu, and how she would call chakra to her hands, focusing it into sparkling light before using it in the jutsu. With these new handseals, Shiki could tell that a great deal more energy and power was required, and it wasn't going to be easy.

Closing her eyes, she concentrated on the flow of her chakra, as she did with almost every genjutsu she learned. That was generally the main element of these kind of jutsu. As long as one could control their chakra, the subsequent effects were usually pretty easy to achieve. At least, that was how Shiki saw it, and she was wrong about many things. Regardless, the lights came pretty easily at first, but she needed much, much more.

[daisy]

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Shiki stood perfectly still, her hands outstretched before her, her eyes closed and her mind focusing only on drawing light into her palms. Her chakra raced through her slender frame, congregating and collecting in her hands, soon becoming a gently glow in her open fists. She waited a while longer, trying to drag up chakra from every recess of her body, and send it to join the gathering energy. Maybe she was overdoing it, she thought, but of course, the more chakra, the better the jutsu would work, right? Obviously, such a hypothesis is entirely wrong in some cases, but Shiki thought it currently appropriate.

When the girl could wait no longer, she drew back her now glowing hands, before thrusting them forwards, intending to unleash the stream of colours that was the aim of the jutsu. However, upon striking forwards with her hands, the glow in her hands merely fizzled out, drifting into the air as if it were nothing.
"Oooh. That wasn't right." The little kunoichi muttered, her hands still tingling a little from gathering all that energy. She looked at her palms, but aside from the slight tingling, it was as if she had never performed the jutsu.
"Like, that's annoying." She said, before frowning, and deciding to focus once again.

"I should try something just a little different..." The rain shinobi murmured, as she performed the necessary string of handseals, each symbol of the zodiac flashing quickly through her nimble fingers. And then, that done, she launched her hands forwards immediately, this being her new strategy. While she thrust her hands out into the air, she concentrated on making her chakra burst forth, without having gathered or prepared it whatsoever. As the energy flowed through her body, she tried to direct it to spray immediately from her hands, creating the desired effect without having to wait for the chakra to gather.

The little girl stood there, hands outstretched, looking out across the ruined garden as she tried to command her chakra to leap from her dainty hands and take form as a 'vivid cone of clashing colours', but the longer she looked, the less likely it seemed that she was succeeding. Shiki could feel her chakra moving, and could feel that she had begun the jutsu correctly, but she just wasn't creating the colours! It was like, plugging in a lamp, making sure the bulb was brand new, and then switching it on, only to find it shedding no light. Usually, in such a situation, it either required more input, more power, or there was a mix up in the wiring.
"... Are my wires mixed up...?" The little kunoichi said thoughtfully, her hands falling to her sides.

[daisy]

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Shiki had come to the conclusion that she had not been performing the jutsu incorrectly either time, but simply that she needed to put more power into it. Failing that, the girl was almost out of ideas, but she was confident that this was what she needed to master the technique. Walking lightly back towards a toppled over statue, Shiki hopped up atop it, before twirling around to face the rest of the garden, her hands raised before her.
"Okay, you ready?" She asked nobody in particular, but narrowed her eyes all the same.

The little kunoichi performed the handseals once more, making them as sharp and eloquent as possible, taking no chances that the performance of the jutsu could be foiled by anything other than what she had decided to take action upon. The relatively long string finished with a perfect final seal, Shiki thrust her hands out before her, the only image filling her mind that of the beautiful and dazzling spray of colour that would be emitted from her being. Should she perform the technique correctly, of course. At any rate, with her slender hands outstretched, the little girl focused for the third time on the necessary flux of chakra, drawing and directing her energy towards the focal point of emission.

"C'mon, c'monnnn..." The kunoichi muttered, eyes screwed shut in her attempts to concentrate. It felt that, regardless of how much energy she could focus in her hands, the required level of power was always just out of her reach. But that just couldn't be! She knew plenty jutsu at this level, and never had any problems performing them. Shiki knew that it was merely because this jutsu was brand new to her, and so, she didn't know the nuances of performing it, the little tricks and the aquired feelings that would allow one to master it entirely.

Regardless, she sent more and more energy, the chakra pooling in her palms like water. But, for some reason, also like water, it felt that there was some kind of dam, within Shiki herself. As if, she just wasn't able to force enough chakra, as if there was a small hole in the dam through which water trickled, but that the technique required the entire dam to be breached, and the water to come crashing through, drowning her hands in energy and power. Shaking her head, the little kunoichi tried not to think of it. Of course there was no dam within her, and of course there was nothing preventing the required amount of chakra reaching her hands. Of course there wasn't... right?

[daisy]

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Standing there, amidst the ruins of the once beautiful garden, Shiki felt conflicted. Her eyes remained closed as the rain fell gently around her, and the entire setting was rather peaceful, but the little kunoichi couldn't help her mind wandering, and a feeling of unease descending on her, even as she continued to hone and converge her chakra with her mind. As the glow in her dainty hands grew brighter and brighter, and more and more chakra flowed from the little girl towards that point, Shiki couldn't help frown, and while focused on the jutsu, she didn't even notice herself biting down on her lip. Not hard enough to break the skin, but anybody watching would know in an instant that there was something troubling the girl.

The feeling didn't dissipate as she thought it would the more she concentrated on the jutsu, but instead, as she forced the feeling from herself and filled her mind with thoughts of the beautiful eruption of colour she was attempting to create, she felt more oppressed and disturbed. The feeling became almost unbearable as her chakra flow reached its peak, the most energy yet flowing into the congregation of light, making her hands sparkle brilliantly and her fingers shake ever so slightly at the gathering of chakra. The strange thing was, this jutsu was a genjutsu, and so the effects were entirely illusionary, yet the energy and its effect were anything but.

Just as she was about to tear her lip open, and as water welled up in her eyes, Shiki let out a frustrated screech, and initiated the jutsu, letting all the gathered chakra go, unleashing it in the image she focused on in her mind, that of a brilliant cone of clashing colours, captivating and enthralling, tempered with dazzling light and convalesent dark. Although the image in her mind was perfect, the colour rocketing out from her envisioned with no problems, the reality wasn't quite as impressive. Although Shiki's hands shook and tingled, and the energy gathered there was more than enough, and the direction pictured easily, colour only few from her hands at about less than a meter length. It fizzled out and died almost as soon as it had arrived, spitting and fading out shortly after leaving the kunoichi's hands.

"Oooh, bloody hell!" The girl screamed, stomping her foot in what was neither a mature nor a ladylike move. It looked like she was going to have to tackle the jutsu in a rather different manner, as simply channeling more and more chakra into it hadn't had the desired affect whatsoever. But, Shiki was sure she wasn't doing anything wrong! She knew, logically, that she must be, otherwise, she told herself, the jutsu would simply work, and she wouldn't even have to consider otherwise. But, as she went through the steps in her head, handseals, chakra flow, execution, nothing leaped out at her as being wrong. It was going to take some thought.

[daisy]

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Shiki inhaled deeply through her nose, then let the air escape past her lips. Maybe it was just training block? If such a thing existed? At any rate, as she had unleashed the justu, the horrible oppressing feeling had vanished, so the little kunoichi simply assumed it was a feeling of something like dread, as if she had known that the jutsu would be unsuccessful even as she prepared it. Or something along those lines. At any rate, she wouldn't be giving up, of course, and as such she twirled around on the spot, facing out over the entire garden, still beautiful even in its ruined state.

She then began a very short string of handseals, those of the 'Dazzling Lights' jutsu. Those finished quickly by her nimble fingers, Shiki launched the jutsu, the lights in her hands scattering around the area and flashing bright and glamourous. Then, the Rain shinobi began the handseals of her current task, the 'Colour Spray' technique. She took her time with these handseals, making each zodiac sign as precise and delicate as possible. Anything to increase her chances, she thought. At any rate, as soon as that longer string of seals was complete, she thrust her hands forwards, but this time, instead of drawing on the chakra inside her to form the lights, as she had done every time before, the little kunoichi focused on the lights she had already created, the 'Dazzling Lights' scattered about the garden.

Drawing on their energy, Shiki tried to replicate them in her hands, focusing on how they were created, their properties and their power. It was hard going, as she knew the jutsu required far more chakra than the previous jutsu had, and as such, drawing on it for energy was doomed to fail. However, the girl thought that if she just used it as a starting point, as if she used it as a blueprint, almost, a design to which she could build this new jutsu, it might have a positive effect. As such, when she was drawing on the lights around her, concentrated entirely on their essence, she created a mould in her mind, a shell based on how the lights were constructed.

This shell she filled with more chakra, before sending it spiralling into her hands, gathering both created lights, and the lights she had created in the exact same form. As Shiki continued this method of gathering chakra, she couldn't feel that disturbance she had felt previously, she felt almost like the chakra was taking its own course, and she could only hope that course was correct. The way it flowed through her body now, was much lighter and more free, and she couldn't help think that perhaps it was her mind or her subconcious that had prevented her from completing the jutsu easily? Of course, she had no way to know if any of her theories were correct, and as such, she simply concentrated on the task at hand, her palms gathering more and more chakra, and it seemed to Shiki that it was the perfect kind of chakra for the jutsu. Whatever that meant.

[zuka]

+5.


















































x10.

[daisy]

i was actually totally spooked there, thanks. ¬.¬

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A small smile crossed the kunoichi's visage as she felt the chakra building. The surrounding lights had gone out, drawn instead to her hands, adding to the gathered energy, the technique almost ready to be unleashed. Taking a small breath, Shiki then thrust her palms outwards.
"Here we go~!" The girl cried, her eyes screwed shut. She could feel the energy churning through her hands, and when she opened her eyes just a crack, she almost squealed with delight. There, before her, was a stream of pure colour. Reds and yellows swirled through deep blues and purples, clashing and combining, colours twisted and entwined and always moving.

Shiki knew that anybody caught within that cone of colours and power could become incapacitated. At least, those she was strong enough to affect, which, she hoped, was the majority of opponents she would encounter. The little kunoichi held the jutsu as long as she could. It was a strange feeling, knowing that the colours actually only existed in her mind, and she marvelled at her chakra and genjutsu in general, that it could create something so beautiful and powerful, yet so entirely fabricated. Shiki found though, before very long, that she couldn't sustain the jutsu. Keeping it in play was beyond her for the moment, and the cone began to fade.

It grew shorter and shorter, as if collapsing in upon itself, the colours all drifting away and fading to become translucent, before dissipating entirely.
"Wheww~" Shiki murmured, stepping backwards to sit down atop a crumbling statue. It may not even be a particularly high ranked jutsu, but the little kunoichi was drained and tired from training it all this time. However, she knew that it would definitely be an asset in battle, should she master it, of course.
"Okay, okay, no time to rest~!" She said to herself, forcing herself up from her seat and forwards, until she reached the remains of a pillar, up onto which she jumped, so she stood above the garden, a princess surveying her domain.

"So, once again!" Shiki said forcefully, bringing her hands up before her, clasping them together and running once more through the now familiar seals that would create that spray of colour. The handseals came easily, as always, and her chakra now responded to them, like people will automatically recognise where they're going upon spotting a familiar postbox or patch of grafitti, Shiki's chakra recognised the signs being performed, and it knew where to go and how to act. A ninja's chakra was really rather amazing, what it was capable of with the right preparations and direction. At any rate, upon finishing the handseals, the kunoichi's chakra was all but surging down towards her hands, well aware of the jutsu it was performing, and what it needed to become.