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Mizu no Muchi (Whip of Water)
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The user creates a water whip with the water around the user.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: A technique that utilizes water in order to create a whip out of it, acting like a normal whip doing anything a whip can do. There is no other true information for this technique other then the fact that it creates a whip. This technique is a basis for a few techniques as well.
Limit: Water Release




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Sitting by the fire with her new Uchiha companion and the Great Hoshigaki, Amarante waited for the stew to cook. In her opinion it was taking to long to cook so Amarante, in all her childish glory, began to complain, as any child would. “Is it ready yet? I’m starving, this things taking to long, I want to eat it!”

Hoshigaki ignored her whining and prodded the fire. Amarante was not to be deterred however, her complaining would be heard! “Hoshigaki… Hoshigaki… Hoshigaki… Is it ready yet…? It’s taking to long!”

The blue man snapped. “Don’t fucking rush it! Just because you want it to be cooked now doesn’t mean it’ll speed up any!” Amarante was about to complain again but the Great Hoshigaki interrupted her. “I said don’t rush it!” he shouted again. The fish guy flipped through some hand signs faster then Amarante could comprehend and a whip formed from the air around him.

The whip was long and comprised of water, and Hoshigaki cracked it in the air threateningly. Amarante tried to calm the large man. “Okay Hoshigaki, take it easy, calm down, you don’t want to do anything you might regret later on.”

Hoshigaki snarled in pleasure. “Oh yes I do, like alcohol ‘this’ is going to be fun!” Hoshigaki started chasing Amarante around, cracking the whip in the air above her head, as Amarante ran away from him with her hands on the back of her head trying to protect herself.

Uchiha watched all this calmly as he sipped on some tea. Soon the casing was over and Amarante was panting while Hoshigaki went back to the fire to continue prodding it. Amarante thought about the technique Hoshigaki had used just now, it was fairly interesting.

She found she had some use for it and so enquired about it. “Hey Hoshigaki what was that technique you just used” asked the young blonde, apparently able to breath normally now, her panting a thing of the past.

The big blue man spared her a glance. “It’s called the ‘Whip of Water’ technique” he informed her, Amarante inwardly criticizing the lack of imagination when creating the techniques name. “Really there are actually some useful techniques that require this as a basis so maybe teaching it to you would be useful in some shape or form.”

Amarante smiled. “Good then show me the hand signs!” the young girl explained. Hoshigaki turned around and formed some hand signs slowly, Amarante copying them as he made them one by one. A whip of water then formed in Hoshigaki’s hand and he whipped the girl on the leg.

“Oww!” Amarante complained causing The Great Hoshigaki to chuckle. Amarante walked off to the river/lake she always trained by with water jutsu, upset that Hoshigaki was being mean to her. Once she got there she supposed that she’d start practicing, nothing else to do now she was there.

She formed the hand signs and tried to call out a whip from the lake/rivers water. A stream of water snaked up and tried to reach out to Amarante’s hand but died down pretty quick, only reaching about half way toward her. “Well that’s not to promising right off the bat” the young girl commented, reforming hand signs.

The water then snaked up from the lake/river once again and reached her hand. “Right well this is a little better” the girl commented as she tried to move the whip. The whip fell apart in her hand however and lost all of its form proving that it wouldn’t bend at all in the slightest.

“Well this just got a little more annoying” Amarante complained.

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Forming hand signs for the whip of water technique for a third time, Amarante called out a water whip from the lake/stream in front of her. It reached up to her hand and once again when she grasped it and tried to move it the whip fell apart, not having enough stability for her too move it like she would a regular whip.

“Well I’m obviously failing with this technique now aren’t I?” Amarante remarked to herself. “Really not sure how I am though, this technique really should take too long to master; I mean all I’m doing is making a damn whip of water.”

A voice spoke out to her, answering her, as she was speaking to herself. “It may just be a whip of water but there are a lot of subtleties to the technique.” The voice belonged to Uchiha; Amarante didn’t need to turn around to know that. “The whip may simply be a rope of water but it also needs to be deeply encased with chakra or it’ll break away very easily.”

Amarante spoke. “So right now I’m actually way off the mark aren’t I?” she asked rhetorically. “Well I guess I should try again” she supposed, forming the hand signs. Water twisted from the water and reached out toward her hand, taking form of a thin stream which held together.

“I should also point out that your too slow in your performance of the technique” Uchiha commented pissing Amarante off, she had a short temper. Amarante moved her hand a little and the whip held together though the slow movement. Feeling a little more confident in her jutsu, Amarante moved her hand a little faster but the technique quickly dissipated.

A little distraught but undeterred, Amarante tried the technique again and formed the hand signs. Water once again made its way to Amarante’s hand, in a way which was slowly but surely getting rather annoying, stupid repetitiveness of training things. The water whip held strong and Amarante moved her hand slowly then quickly, the whip staying in shape.

“Now I guess it’s time to try this thing out for real!” Amarante exclaimed, rasing her whip hand high in the air. She tried to crack the whip next but it disintegrated once it snapped the technique not strong enough to hold itself together upon such force. “I’m getting closer at least, that’s something.”

“Small progress is progress all the same” Uchiha needlessly commented. “A tip of training advice, once you are able to ‘crack’ the whip, you’re next objective would be to try striking large, firm objects with the whip and then improve you abilities by striking small objects next.”

Amarante nodded in understanding. At least one thing the guy said had some sort of value to it. Reforming the hand signs, Amarante brought up the water whip once more. “You’re also going to have to improve your speed with the jutsu” Uchiha once again commented as the whip took shape.

“I know that” Amarante assured him, annoyance in her voice. “You don’t have to remind me.” The whip was now in her hand and held form as she moved her hand back and forth. Next up: cracking the whip.

Amarante raised her hand slowly and nervously and then brought it down with a quick flick of her wrist. The whip cracked loudly and maintained its shape. Amarante was happy her whip was working and effectively showed her emotions by cracking the whip over and over again.

After a while Uchiha became annoyed. “Okay that’s enough how about striking a tree now?” he posed, Amarante sighing in response. Yeah maybe it would be fun, cracking the whip seemed to be so she gave it a shot and cracked the whip at the tree, striking it and stripping off some bark.

The jutsu didn’t hold though and the whip splashed away into nothingness not being able to handle the strength of the tree. Amarante screwed up her face and reformed the techniques hand signs. ‘A little more chakra should fix that’ she mused to herself, creating another whip of water.

Cracking the whip at the tree again, the whip struck the trunk and chipped off the bark. This time the whip held shape and Amarante smiled. ‘Yeah… I gots a whip’ the young girl mused.

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[JiMmIyZ - Hel]

Memory Projection
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Allows the user and others who are watching to look back into the users own life and memories and see it projected in the crystal ball.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: Must hold the last handseal, can only project things that they remember, must be within 5 feet of the crystal ball in order to see the images. If not, then the images become distorted, and cannot be seen.
Description: This simple technique allows for the user as well as those who are around him or her to look into the crystal ball and see a specific memory inside the user's past. It allows for people to show others things that happened in their past instead of having to explain it.
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Having learnt how to make a whip of water, Amarante found herself in another heated argument with the great Hoshigaki, once again over something very trivial and once again she seemed to be on the loosing end but she wouldn’t give up, she never give up, her pride as a woman was on the line despite the fact that she was only twelve.

As he formed a whip of water, Hoshigaki continued to shout at Amarante. “No there is no way in hell that a grizzly bear is cute!” he proclaimed, cracking the whip. “Grizzly bears a large ferocious creatures comprised of fur that try and kill you with there god damned annoying tiny ass fangs!”

Amarante formed a water whip of her own and barked just as loudly back at Hoshigaki. “grizzly bears are cute and Granite is no acceptation! You just have no taste!” Amarante cracked her own whip. “I bet that you think that your little sharks are cute huh?”

Hoshigaki became enraged, veins bulging from his forehead. “Of course they’re cute!” he bellowed. “Look at how magnificently they swim! They’re nothing like bears, they’re magical and they’ve been around for millions of years without having to evolve, want to know why? Because they’re the ultimate hunter, there is nothing cuter then that!”

“Gr how can you consider hunting cute?” Amarante criticized, ignoring Hoshigaki’s personality. She grabbed him roughly by the collar shook him with her free hand. “Granite is the cutest thing to ever walk this earth and there is nothing you can say to
convince me other wise!”

Amarante shook him as hard as she can and a ball fell from Hoshigaki’s person fell from his cloak. “What’s this?” she enquired bending down to pick it up inadvertently ducking a strike from Hoshigaki’s whip in the process. The ball was crystal and had a white sheen to it.

“It’s a crystal ball obviously” Uchiha piped up. He had been watching the proceedings calmly sipping on some tea the whole time. “There are some jutsu that deal specifically with this device so that is why we keep it around. We sometimes use it for interrogation purposes.”

‘Interrogation?’ Amarnte internally questioned. “Well do you think you could teach me some of the jutsu then?” the blond enquired letting her jutsu die down and walking towards Uchiha, leaving Hoshigaki to stare after her, neglected.

Uchiha smiled. “Sure why not” he calmly stated, beckoning for Amarante to give him the ball. “Now this one is the basic of the basics when it comes to crystal ball jutsu though it is not that easy. It’s called the memory projection technique” at his words his left hand, his right being obstructed by the crystal ball, began to go into a slight blur of hand signs and soon Amarante could see the crystal ball to come to life.

“Look familiar?” Uchiha asked the girl. Amarante looked on enthralled by the images on display of the crystal ball.

It did look familiar in fact.. “Hey that’s me!” Amarante exclaimed, Uchiha nodding. It was when she was training the shunshin technique with Uchiha. “OMG did my hair really look like that!” the girl squealed, appalled by her abysmal appearance. “Man I look terrible. So how about you show me the hand signs and I can get to training this bitch.”

Uchiha nodded though he wasn’t exactly thrilled with the girls word choice. He went through the hand signs slow enough for Amarante to memorise and then gave her the ball. Amarante looked it over before smirking with confidence and forming the hand signs herself.

The result of her first attempt was that she made a quick flash of blue, which was probably just her chakra, and then it died out. “Wah? Damn it!” the girl wailed before forming the hand signs again and placing her hands on the crystal ball once more. Another flash of blue ensued but nothing beyond that.

“Damn it!” Amarante once again screamed. “I want to do it like you did!”

Uchiha sighed. “Really you are such a troublesome girl. This is only your second attempt at the jutsu and you’re already screaming bloody murder.”

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Amarante glared at Uchiha. “I am not screaming bloody murder!” she screeched, deafening all within a three mile radius. “If I were screaming that you’d know” she pouted. Uchiha glowered in return. If she wasn’t careful she really would be screaming bloody murder, the girl was on thin ice.

She paid no attention to this though and instead tried out the technique once again, forming the hand signs and injecting her chakra into the crystal ball. Another blue flash followed but nothing beyond that causing Amarante’s frustration to boil. “damn…” she quietly cursed, reforming the hand signs.

She grabbed the ball after performing the hand signs and injected her chakra in a continuous stream. The blue flash turned into a continuous glow, lighting the ball up like a lantern or something. “What are you trying to portray?” the Uchiha asked, curious to what the young girl was trying to display on the ball.

“Well right now…” Amarrante began, glaring at the crystal ball in her hand which was still glowing blue. “I’d say I’m probably try to portray me seeing this god damn blue glow from the crystal ball!” her voice was strained and she let the jutsu go and reformed the hand signs with a frustration enhanced pace.

Uchiha smirked, his previous anger with the girl gone. “Hn good choice” he remarked sarcastically as Amarante’s crystal ball began to glow again, causing the girl to fume once more. Uchiha looked slightly to the left at the groups forth companion Hoshigaki. The man was standing depressed a few meters away with a dark cloud hanging over his head and his water whip still active (he really wasn’t good with being ignored).

He turned back to Amarante who was once again forming hand signs and causing the crystal ball to glow. It appeared she was having no success so he spoke up to give her a little advice, something which really should be her teachers job (Hoshigaki) not his. True he was also acting as a sensei to her but really he was more of a tutor if anything.

The girl let the jutsu drop and then Uchiha spoke up. “If you don’t mind me asking, how are you performing the technique? I may be able to give you some advice” he offered.

Amarante pondered the question for a bit. “Well I’m performing it like I would any other technique. I’m not doing anything different or anything like that.”

Uchiha sighed, “Then that’s why you’re failing” he stated causing Amarante to look to him in confusion. Taking the occasion to explain, Uchiha took a breathe. “The Memory Projection technique is not like an ordinary technique” he began. “The jutsu requires not only a chakra power source but a connection to you mind so that your thoughts can be displayed.

Amarante looked to Uchiha in understanding. That did make sense after all, how would the jutsu know what to display if she didn’t do it? She’d been going about learning the technique the wrong way, she was man enough to admit that which was more manly then the Great Hoshigaki who was still sitting in the corner depressed at being neglected.

Amarante reformed the hand signs and focused her mind into the technique, closing her eyes and picturing the image of Hoshigaki sitting depressed into her mind. The technique started to display as a form of static, Uchiha commenting as Amarante’s eyes were closed. “Well you’ve made some progress.”

Amarante opened her eyes and looked down. She could sort of piece together some images but really nothing substantial. Reforming the hand signs after letting the jutsu drop, Amarante tried once more to focus her mind and forget about everything else so she could give her jutsu a clearer form, once again she also closed her eyes.

Uchiha looked at it and commented. “Very nice I can make it out now” he informed her, Amarante opening her eyes excitedly. She could now make out the form of Hoshigaki sitting in the corner sulking the image bringing a smile to the young girls face. Hoshigaki began to suspect something when he heard Uchiha giggling.

“What? What are you showing him?” the blue man asked. “I can’t see.”

(OOC: thanks for grading Jack, been neglecting my thank you's lately)

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[JiMmIyZ - Hel]

Astral Projection
Rank: A
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: See Description
Special: Must hold the rat handseal
Drawback: Body is left completely defenseless, and vulnerable to attack. User body may be difficult to move for a post. Can only project to a place where you've already been.
Description: This technique is one of the few techniques in the ninja world that neither hurt nor heal, but it is considered one of the most influential. This technique has a long history of pride. Invented in the cloud village many years ago as a communications device meant to assist their valued shinobi during the great ninja war, it has been used throughout the ages as an information tool. The users of the technique must first perform a flurry of handsigns, finishing with the rat handseal and holding it. Once the handseal is held the users body becomes totally stiff and immobile. If they are standing they may fall and injure themselves. In exchange for the total loss of their body, the user gains the control of his spirit. The spirit has no physical form, meaning it cannot attack or be attacked. Genjutsu still may effect it (only if it something meant to confuse sight) but other then that is basically just a vapor. After the spirit form is taken, the user may appear anywhere they have already been, though unable to change the environment physically, they may use chakra to act as a voice box, giving them the ability to speak. Because of the nature of the technique, it does not have a limited range, but there is a time frame. The spirit form may only be away from the body for a maximum (getting the stiff penalty) of 20 posts. After this time, the spirit is forced back into the body. Anyone can hear the spirit, and easily see the spirit cause it looks multicolored. The user may still detect the presence of nearby people (within 10 meters) of the body. They wont know who it is, just that someone is there.
Limit: None




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Amarante woke up early the next morning still full from the stew feast last night, Hoshigaki having made too much because of Uchiha reluctance to eat it though why he was reluctant to eat it was beyond the young girl, that stuff was magical and she wanted the whole world to know just how much she enjoyed it

She kicked some dirt onto the previous night’s fire to smother some of the smouldering red embers and then looked around for her two older companions. She couldn’t find them anywhere. She tried using her hell ears technique to hear them out… Nothing. Next up she tried using the sonar technique to find them… Again nothing.

Well maybe not nothing, she could have sworn that the rock to her left was a bit smaller. Moving over to it, Amarante was surprised with what she came across. “Holly crap it’s you two!” she screeched. She’d mistaken them for a part of the rock they were just sitting so still and lifeless.

“You were expecting us to be someone else?” The Great Hoshigaki piped up, his eyes still closed and his hands in a tiger seal. “We’re sort of busy right now, we’re helping our leader out using the astral projection technique as a medium” he explained nonchalantly.

“Astral Projection jutsu?” the young blond repeated innocently, pronouncing each syllable slowly before snapping into a frenzied expression. “Wait even more importantly, you have a boss?”

“Yes…” bluntly stated Uchiha. “You have one too you know” he then reminded her. ‘Oh yeah the Hokage’ it clicked in Amarante’s mind. ‘I wonder how that guys doing?’ Uchiha began to get a bit impatient. “Is there something you needed from us Amarante?” the man enquired in an attempt to rid himself of the distraction.

Amarante put a finger to her lip in mock thought. “Oh gee why would I need to speak to my teachers now I wonder…” the young girl taunted, trailing off. Uchiha wasn’t very impressed with the girls’ attitude.

“You want some training don’t you” he posed, Amarante continuing to jeer the guy.

“Hey now that seems like a great idea now doesn’t it” she said cheerfully yet sarcastically, getting no response positive or negative from either the Great Hoshigaki or Uchiha. “… I’ll take you silence as you asking me what jutsu I’d like to learn then so how about you teach me this Astral Projection thing huh?”

Uchiha sighed and the Great Hoshigaki took this as an effort to pass the torch to him rather then give in and take care of the girl himself. “Alright, alright I’ll take care of it” he assured his companion. He quickly changed his hand signs and a shadow clone appeared to his left, a cloud of smoke being left in the doppelgangers place which was quickly blown away by the wind and evaporated.

“Sorry Amarante but we are fairly busy right now; we need to keep our concentration so this clone is going to have to do, it should have enough chakra to teach you the technique” Hoshigaki offered though he seemed distracted. Amarante shrugged it off though.

“All I care about is learning the technique, I don’t care how” she stressed. Amarante and the clone moved away from Uchiha and Hoshigaki so that they wouldn’t distract them too much though they promised to keep an eye out for the other two. The clone then began to explain the jutsu for Amarante.

“Right now this jutsu is called the astral projection jutsu because it allows you to project yourself into a place in a far off distance via spirit. You can control this spirit as you like once you’ve mastered the technique and then you’d be able to communicate with whomever you’re trying to communicate with and etcetera.”

Amarante scrunched up her face. “What that’s it?” she beckoned.

The clone shrugged. “I’ll tell you more as we go, just let me show you the hand signs so we can get into this baby.” The clone then started to slowly go through hand signs, Amarante memorizing them, and then let itself manifest into a spirit which stood a few feet away from Amarante.

Its colour was distorted in a way and it was multicoloured with colours such as blue and purple. It looked cool so Amarante decided to give it a go herself and formed the hand signs while the clone watched on via astral projection. Amarante felt chakra go through her body in an almost blissful motion but when she opened her eyes she was still in her body.

“Well attempt one is a failure” she spoke aloud. It wasn’t as though she was deterred, how hard could it be?

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Hoshigaki’s clone smirked. “HN you just thought how hard could this jutsu be didn’t you?” the clone jeered, agitating yet surprising Amarante who looked at him in surprise. “Every time you think that you get this stupid naïve look on your face” he explained. “It’s actually pretty funny ‘cause it usually means that you’ll have a lot of trouble with the technique.”

Amarante puffed her checks in anger at the remark. “It does not!” she bellowed in defence of her pride. “Anyway how about you tell me how difficult this jutsu is so I know how much trouble I’m in for?” she posed of the big man who took a moment to ponder wether or not to tell her.

Deciding to tell her, Hoshigaki smirked. “It’s an A rank jutsu, second highest up the totem pole.” Amarante’s eyes widened. ‘Whoa… An A rank jutsu…” she knew that it wasn’t an offensive jutsu from what Hoshigaki’s clone had informed of her of before but still…

An A rank meant that the jutsu had some power, power that she wanted. “So how about you tell me a little more about this jutsu?” Amarante posed. “It may help me with my learning of the technique.”

“Makes sense” shrugged the clone, his jutsu long since disengaged. “The Astral Projection is for communication purposes only, meaning that you can not attack anyone while you are in the projection. That said you can also not receive attacks against you as you are not actually there, attacks will just phase through you instead.”

Amarante absorbed what she was told. “And what about actually communicating with people? How does that work if I’m not actually there?” Her question was a valid one; the astral projection technique was used for communication so she’d have to learn how to communicate with it.

The clone of the Great Hoshigaki waved it off though. “I’ll explain that once we get to that part, don’t worry I’ll explain it then” he assured her, Amarante having no choice but to agree. She needed this guy help if she wanted to learn the technique so she’d accept any terms that he had.

Forming the hand signs Amarante tried out the technique focusing chakra in and then out of her body, trying to project herself. Nothing was working however and she just felt rejuvenated for a moment until she expelled it from her body. Nothing was happening.

Agitated she tried again, reforming the hand signs and building her chakra. Again she tried to project herself but again it wasn’t happening, she was still in her body and a new spirit one wasn’t even sparking into existence, her chakra was just mixing into the air and drifting away.

“Hey Hoshigaki…” Amarante began, stumped on how she should continue with her training. “What do I need to do to make a spirit like you did?” she enquired.

Hoshigaki clone wasn’t exactly helping though. “You won’t know how to do it until it’s done” he insisted, taking a seat under a tree. “Besides, I don’t think it would help much if I just hand fed you every time you want learn a jutsu. You need to train it yourself, make the jutsu your own and etcetera.”

Amarante frowned. She just thought he was being lazy, even as a clone but she didn’t complain, she’d eventually reach a point in her training where she’d need his help and he’d have to give it to her. She didn’t want to burn her bridges right away when she’d need it later.

She reformed the hand signs and gave the jutsu another go but still nothing happened. “Grrr…” she mumbled in frustration. It was god damn annoying not to be able to do something.

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Amarante’s frustration was beginning to get the best of her but still she kept her head, loosing it now would be a bad idea. She had such a long way to go with this jutsu; to go crazy now would be a stupid thing to do.

She formed more hand signs in another attempt at the jutsu. She focused clearly on what she would do. Focusing on her chakra control, she’d try and duplicate her self, pushing the technique away from her body and yet when she’d open her eyes nothing would be before her.

Another attempt, another failure, she was making a habit out failing a lot lately. The Great Hoshigaki’s training and Uchiha’s was so intense but she was progressing much faster then she thought she would have been if she had not had their help and instead trained on her own.

Thinking back on it now… Would she even have access to A rank jutsu without the aid of the Great Hoshigaki and Uchiha? All she really had ‘borrowed’ from the Kusa library was a few D ranks, C rank and only about three B rank jutsu, all of which were only specifically for water and lightning release and yet…

The Great Hoshigaki… Their chance encounter… It had brought so much fortune to her, she now relied on him to make her stronger, the training with him was all that she could utilise to become stronger now. Sure she had her team but really, she believed herself the strongest there but with the Great Hoshigaki Uchiha she was by far the weakest of the three. She couldn’t dare challenge them and yet she’d always act like a brat.

Discarding those unnecessary thoughts, Amarante regained her training focus. She had to be a good student and get down this jutsu; she had to prove that she was good enough to be considered a ninja for her teachers sake.

She slowly formed the hand signs and cast the jutsu once more, projecting the jutsu through her body to gain a body structure for the technique, which was her intent for doing so in her jutsu attempts in the first place, and projected that image out of her body.

Once again though her attempts failed and the jutsu failed to take any shape, form, appearance, figure, outline, stature or anything of the sort at all. It was annoying she had to get better, she had to do better for Hoshigaki’s sake, the mans’ clone now attempting to nod off as he sat under the tree.

She formed the hand signs again, determined to do better this time and once again focused her chakra through her body and expelled it with as much volume as she could. The result: Once again the jutsu failed miserably and she was kicked back to the curb.

“Why… why can’t I make even a little bit of progress… Every jutsu before this I made at least some progress in the technique straight off the bat with my first attempt but with this jutsu… not even a little…” she spoke silently to herself, quiet enough that not even Hoshigaki could hear her.

She was screwing up somehow but how? Was she screwing up by pulsing the chakra through her first? She was just trying to gain a shape for her technique but it probably was why she was failing. Was it something she needed to rethink? Probably, she wasn’t very good at forming training plans of her own, if only Hoshigaki’s clone could transport her somewhere to help her with this technique.

Rethinking on what she would be doing, Amarante tried again.

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How could she change her training tactics Amarante wondered to herself. So far she was just trying to project an image of herself outside of her own body which was essentially what the jutsu required her to do. Was there some element to the technique that she didn’t know?

Or an even better question was there an element to the jutsu that she was forgetting? What had the Great Hoshigaki and Uchiha been doing when she seen them? They were sitting on the rock with there eyes closed. Was that what she was forgetting? No it couldn’t be.

Even if she had her eyes open she should be able to see the creation of the jutsu at least flare so it had to be something else though it was something to keep in mind. Was it because she was focusing chakra in her body first? Yeah that was probably it or at the very least it was a contributing factor.

With this new bit of information to work with, Amarante tried out the technique without trying to form the body within her first and instead tried to manipulate her chakra in front of her, trying to manipulate it into the form of her body or at the very least the silhouette of her body.

Another attempt another failure it seemed though. What was that the second time she had mused that to herself, such an annoyance. She really wanted to make some progress with this jutsu. A spec, a fizzle, a spark, anything! She just wanted to make some progress any progress.

Repetition. Such an annoyance, begging god for intervention wouldn’t help her. She had given up on him the day she was chased out of Kusa, ah yes that day. It had been so long since the last time that she thought about that but all this time she was craving the power unconsciously, her subconscious mind pushing her along it seemed.

Amarante pushed all thought out of her head and reformed the hand signs, she did not want to get bogged down right now though why anyone would was beyond her. She formed the hand signs and pushed her chakra out of her body, trying to make the projections silhouette come into fruition.

Once again however, nothing happened and she was stopped dead in her tracks. “Damn it” the girl cried, kicking a rock from her path in front of her. Frustration was boiling in her system but she had to remain calm, and think. Hoshigaki’s clone was disturbed by her crying and sat up for a moment before resting his head back down and continuing to doze.

None of that helped her however; she needed to do this jutsu. Where was her flash, where was her spark of life, that’s all she wished for! She formed the hand signs, holding the rat this time as a means of continuing with her chakra projection, and tried out her jutsu.

Came as a result of her work though as quickly as it came it vanished. Amarante’s shock was a cause of this, she had been so surprised that she had made it that she accidentally dropped the jutsu, damn it!

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Amarante was tunned at what she just saw, a small flash of light. “H-how did I…?” she trailed off, stunned. She didn’t know what happened but she tried out what she did again, whatever it was. She formed the hand signs and pushed as much chakra from her body as she could.

The result however was once again that nothing happened. “I-I don’t get it” she said aloud to herself. “Last time… Last time I made a flash, I did the exact same thing again but nothing happened… why?” she asked no one in particular which obviously meant that Hoshigaki had to pipe up and give his opinion.

The clone Hoshigaki snickered. “It’s obvious what you did wrong that time” he stated.

Amarante looked to him in confusion. “And what’s that? The girl enquired.

“If I have to tell you then you’re an idiot” he said critically. His statement pissed her off but she still wanted to know what she had done so she maintained her confused look. The Great Hoshigaki clone sighed. “Well think of what you did, what I, the real me, was doing when you found him.”

Amarante looked in confusion and repeated her actions aloud for herself (and Hoshigaki) to hear. “I was annoyed so I formed the hand signs and began to build my chakra. I tried to mould it into a silhouette once my chakra left my body and then a spark appeared where I was trying to make the silhouette.”

The Great clone Hoshigaki frowned. “That’s not all you did differently” he informed the girl, apparently having paid attention to her training as he was dozing. “Again I REPEAT think of what you did differently and what you had seen Uchiha and the real me doing when you found us this morning.”

Amarante looked at her hands. “You were just sitting on the rocks…” she trailed off, Hoshigaki urging her to continue. “You had your eyes closed… and… you were… holding…” something clicked in Amarante’s mind. “You were holding the rat hand sign!” she exclaimed. “And I was holding the rat hand sign when I had made the spark, all the other times I let it go!”

Hoshigaki clone, threw up his hands in exasperation. “Finally the girl gets it!” he cried. “Really I thought it was obvious what you were doing I mean you were the one doing it but no you had to go and make a big deal over something so trivial-” Hoshigaki’s rant was cut short by a crack of a whip, a water whip to be exact.

“Maybe shut up yeah?” she posed, the clone having no choice but to accept what the girl said though he was annoyed, really annoyed. Maybe he’d tell her what she was ‘really’ eating when she had the stew last night and why it ‘really’ took him so long to get the ingredients.

Amarante formed the hand signs again, this time holding the rat hand sign at the end of her movement and tried to project her image. Another spark was then seen where she was trying to create her projection silhouette but this time the spark didn’t just fade away as the girl knew what was coming.

She maintained the technique and managed to warp it slightly with her chakra, creating a dark blue and purple vortex in her attempt somehow. It was really difficult to do what she wanted to with this technique and soon she just decided to call it quits with this attempt and let the jutsu drop for a moment so she could try again.

Amarante smirked. Progress, finally! She thought she deserved her smile right now; she’d gotten a little closer to mastering a very advanced technique.

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Still smirking, Amarante reformed the Astral Projection techniques hand signs, held the rat hand sign, and created another spark of the techniques existence. Apparently she was a long way away from learning how to create the silhouette instantly like the clone of Hoshigaki had but still she was getting somewhere.

She tried to morph the spark into the silhouette she needed now, twisting and turning her chakra how she saw fit. She’d bend it outward and then try and then inwards to try and give it a little more buoyancy and keep the rest of the jutsu stable, all the while trying to mould a silhouette of herself. This was not an easy task however and still it was beyond her abilities to do so.

She dropped the jutsu with Hoshigaki clone looking onwards. Maybe he would give her some advice but a glance over to him showed her that he wouldn’t, such a cheap, annoying bastard. If she didn’t like his stew so much she’d have killed the man a long time ago Amarante mused, forgetting the internal conversation she had had with herself just a moment ago and the fact that the man was much stronger then her.

Reforming the techniques hand signs, once again holding the rat, Amarante created another spark of chakra. ‘So I really am going to have to mould you aren’t I?” the blonde mused. She bent it out, in, side to side but still she was getting nowhere, so god damned agitating, so she let the jutsu drop once more.

“Here’s a thought” declared Hoshigaki, drawing Amarante’s surprised attention. “Why no try putting more chakra into the technique, that way you’d have more to work with” he suggested. Amarante shrugged.

Sure why not? He was the guy who actually knew how to perform this jutsu, it’d be stupid for her to disregard his advice and so she’d pour more chakra into her technique in her next attempt. How would she do that though? Was the question on her mind?

He was already pushing out what she considered to be a lot of chakra for this jutsu but then again this was the first A rank jutsu she was learning, she’d probably have to pour more jutsu into the technique then she had ever poured into any jutsu in her life before.

Pffft who was she kidding, probably? More like definitely. She formed the hand signs for the technique slowly, pouring as much chakra into her jutsu as her small body would allow. It was almost painful when she exhumed it from her body but the result was worth it she supposed.

She was holding the rat hand sign and in front of her she could see a very miniature version of herself, very miniature version of herself, really it was probably only five inches tall, standing off the ground. Still holding the rat sign, she tried to maintain the jutsu but she could do so and let it drop, her body still wasn’t used to such a chakra output.

Smiling though, Amarante was happy even when her miniature self version disappeared. It didn’t share her qualities, being a fazing blue and brown colour so maybe that’s why she didn’t develop any sort of bond with it but still she cherished the little thing in a different way.

The little guy had shown her that she [u[could[/u] perform the technique Hoshigaki was trying to teach her which definitely brightened her day. She could learn it, Hoshigaki wouldn’t be wasting his time, and she’d learn this thing and he and Uchiha would be so proud of her for it.

She stopped her thoughts there. ‘Whoa what was I thinking, sort of getting to attached to these guys I think. Sort of wanting their affection now gotta stop with that.’ Amarante couldn’t process affection now, even if she wanted to. She had goals to achieve before she’d let herself be happy. She’d get her revenge first, and then she’d worry about getting a pat on the head from Hoshigaki and Uchiha.

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Her training of the Astral Projection right now was getting better but was definitely still in a slump. She was still creating the small ass miniature version of herself in silhouette form and it was getting annoying.

She’d push more and more of her chakra into the technique but still it wouldn’t do any good, she’d end up with the same small ass miniature silhouette and it was getting annoying. Too annoying. “Seriously thing get bigger!” she’d cry out to the unresponsive shadow in her frustration.

Her attention would then turn to Hoshigaki. “Give me some training tips” she’d demand of the big blue clone of a man who looked to her in confusion in stupid response, as if he wasn’t expecting Amarante to do so. He knew she was getting annoyed, her yelling at him was just a matter of time.

Hoshigaki sigh and murmured under his breathe. “As always you’re a loud girl” she mutter silently before speaking up louder. “And just why should I do that?” he’d question in reply. “You’re supposed to be a smart girl aren’t you? Figure it out on your own!”

A vein on Amarante’s forehead bulged, her anger coming to a boil. “Why should you?” she repeated. “You’re my teacher aren’t you? You’re supposed to do things like that, it’s called teaching!” she barked at the man.

Clone Hoshigaki rubbed his eardrum. “Yeah, yeah whatever” he groaned stretching our his shoulders and getting more comfortable. “How about you try tree walking while you try the jutsu. It’ll teach you better jutsu control while you learn the technique so once you’re able to perform it to the level you are able to do so on the ground you climb down and see your progress.”

Amarante shrugged. That seemed like a good enough training method or strategy, whatever you wanted to call it.

She walked over to a nearby tree, one not too far away from Hoshigaki as she was hoping to rely on his abilities to not let her fall and die if she messed up, and placed her right foot on it, channelling her chakra. Her left foot followed and she walked up the trunk, stopping about five meters off the ground.

“You sure you want to be that high?” called Hoshigaki clone, worrying about her safety.

“Yeah it should be okay” she called back. “I don’t want to be too close to the ground so I can hopefully flip mid air or something and land on my feet if I do somehow fall.” Hoshigaki shrugged and began to doze again. Amarante scowled at him, some teacher he was but he spoke to her, breaking up her expression. “Don’t make that face at me” he said, Amarante startled by this.

‘Guess he is watching me’ she supposed, forming the techniques hand signs, holding the rat. She pushed her chakra out in front of her hoping to create the silhouette she was looking for on the ground in front of her but once again she was met with the spark she could stretch into some sort of void looking thing.

“Well I guess that tree walking hampers my abilities a little more then I thought” Amarante would speak to herself, letting the jutsu drop. She didn’t want to try fumbling around with that level of the jutsu, she’d just waste unnecessary chakra, chakra she’d need for future attempts.

She’d try out the jutsu again but once more she’d be met with the damn chakra spark again. So damned annoying, she’d really have to learn how to control this jutsu better if she wanted to even get to her previous level.

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Still standing along the side of the tree she was on, Amarante focused more of her chakra out in front of her as she formed the astral projections hand signs and held onto the rat for an attempt number which she had lost track of. Her work wasn’t paying off however and she was met with another void of chakra via spark.

SO annoying, so annoying! She’d said it before and she’d say it a million times over! She let her jutsu drop and formed more hand signs. She pushed so much chakra into her technique as she formed the hand signs for this attempt and as she held the rat hand sign, she almost fell from the tree she was standing on but managed to create another miniature silhouette which stood five inches off the ground.

“Success!” Amarante cried jumping down from the tree, Hoshigaki clone rolling his eyes at this. “Now I’ll just check out my progress and see where I’m up to!” she exclaimed, confident that she’d made progress.

She formed the techniques hand signs and pushed her chakra out forward, intent on creating a silhouette of herself with the proper size proportions like wanted, not getting to confident in her abilities which would mess up her jutsu in an embarrassing way, Hoshigaki clone was looking after all.

The result of her attempt was that she made a miniature version of herself one foot high which although being an improvement was still far from what she was aiming for or what she needed. “Guess it’s back to the drawing board” Amarante sighed. Hoshigaki piped up with another training suggestion at this time.

“Try making another silhouette of that level while standing on water this time” he posed Amarante nodding in agreement. It was the next logical option after all. She walked out upon the water, having traversed there with clone Hoshigaki, and formed the techniques hand signs.

She tried to project herself on land a few feet in front of her with her technique but was met once again with the spark she had created first off with the her attempts. A couple of attempts later and Amarante made some progress on this part of the technique and created the miniature version of her silhouette standing five inches tall.

She kept at it though, not content with the progress she had made though in retrospect it probably was a lot considering her progress as of late with the technique and in a couple more attempts (which really was only about twenty) she was able to make another version of herself standing about two feet tall.

Amarante smiled and made her way over to the waters edge, discontinuing her walk on water technique upon reaching land. “Now let’s give this a shot!” she cried smiling a big ass smile.

She formed the techniques hand signs and projected herself in front of her, hoping to create a version with herself standing about her height, taking nothing less then. The result: was success, she now made a silhouette of herself which stood in front of her in all it’s multicoloured glory.

Amarante was ecstatic. “Now what?” she asked Hoshigaki who smiled in return.

“Now we teach you the real aspects of this jutsu” he replied.

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Amarante looked to Hoshigaki confused. “What do you mean you’ll teach me the real aspects of the jutsu?” she questioned of him. “Look I created the damn projection, isn’t that what I was supposed to do” she thought she was right, the damn thing was still standing in front of her, rat hand sign still being held.

Hoshigaki shook his head in disappointment as he rose to his feet. “No girl, you’re not getting it” he berated. “That’s only part of the technique you learnt” he informed her. “The next thing you’re learning is by far the most crucial part of the technique. You’re going to transfer your consciousness into the silhouette.”

‘Going to transfer my consciousness into the silhouette?’ Amarante inwardly repeated. “And how am I going to do that?” she asked the clone, completely oblivious to how she would go about doing such a thing.

Hoshigaki clone was also unsure of how to act. “Hmm that’s a tough question to answer really…” he began. “How am I to describe transferring my consciousness into a silhouette now…” It really was a difficult thing to do, describing such a thing, so really Amarante was sure that actually doing it would be harder.

Hoshigaki clone got an idea though. “Hey I got it!” he announced. “You know the memory projection jutsu” Amarante nodded. “Well this is sort of like that except you’re taking it a bit further and you’re transferring you whole consciousness into the silhouette this time.”

Amarante put a finger to her chin in thought. Yes she did know that jutsu but really how was she going to take it further? She wondered? It was an interesting dilemma she was in right now, even more interesting since she had accidentally dropped the jutsu. She wasn’t deterred however and decided to give it a shot.

She formed the hand signs, held the rat, and created the silhouette of herself, trying to connect a mental connection with it, closing her eyes as a means of helping or so she hoped. Her course of action failed however and she wasn’t able to establish the connection like she wanted so she let the jutsu drop.

“Hey don’t worry about it” Hoshigaki clone comforted. “This really is a difficult jutsu to learn, It might take a while” Amarante nodded in understanding, she was prepared for a lengthy training session and so that’s what she was getting. Cracking her shoulders with them becoming stiff for some reason, Amarante tried the jutsu out once more

She formed the hand signs, holding the rat, and created the silhouette of herself, trying even harder to connect mentally with the spirit, closing her eyes and really focusing on what she was doing. Her vision became blurred as she did this however and her body stiffed even more.

It was really weird, especially since she had her eyes closed, so she dropped the jutsu from this attempt and held her forehead and groaned, being in a little pain. “What is it?” asked Hoshigaki at this action.

Amarante responded in earnest. “My eyes just went all fuzzy and my body got stiff” she informed the blue, gilled cone of a man. “Made me drop the jutsu and… stuff…” she trailed off, feeling a headache coming on.

Hoshigaki smirked. “HN don’t worry about it, it just means that you’re getting a better handle on the jutsu” he assured her, Amarante looking to him in confusion.

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Amarante was a little confused and a little in pain and her adorable clueless expression urged Hoshigaki to explain himself. “You share your eye sight with you projection when you use this technique so your vision blurring when your eyes are closed mean that your connection with it is getting better” he explained.

“Also for a side reference, because you are sharing you vision with this spirit when your eyes are open in your real body, your eyes will be closed in you projection body and vice versa” he continued, Amarante nodded in under standing.

“But what about my body getting stiff?” she continued to question, curious as to why the jutsu seemed to affect her body in such a way.

“Well that’s what happens when you use this jutsu” he informed her. “Because you can move your projected body around, this body remains stiff which is why I was sitting down before when you found the real me, I didn’t want to fall down and hurt myself you know?”

His question didn’t need an answer and Amarante understood what he was saying. She reformed the hand signs, holding the rat, and created the silhouette in front of her but this time, she sat down before doing so as she didn’t want to fall over like Hoshigaki had done, her legs crossed in front of her.

She focused once more on connecting mentally with her silhouette and tried to do so in a slightly different way, a way in which she hoped wouldn’t give her a headache like the last attempt had, closing her eyes as she did so.

It was still blurry in front of her though it was a better connection then the last attempt though Amarante felt as though she was really close to figuring out this jutsu now, really close. Letting the jutsu drop, Amarante rubbed out a kink in her shoulder that had transpired because of her jutsu usage.

“Damn and to think you’re going to have to put up with this after such a long time” Amarante said in an apologetic tone. Hoshigaki unconsciously reaching over to his deltoids at her words.

“Yeah it’s going to be a bitch but I’ll live” he assured her. Amarante decided not to respond to this however and instead formed the astral projections hand signs once more, holding the rat like always, and focusing on connecting mentally with the silhouette she was creating in front of her whilst closing her eyes.

Her eye sight became all blurred but now she could make out colours. She didn’t move her head but instead let the jutsu drop, a big smirk planted upon her face. “Ah I think I got it this time, I think I got what I was looking for in my last attempt at the jutsu so this next one should be good.”

Hoshigaki looked to her mildly interested. “And just what were you looking for in that last attempt of yours?” he asked, a small amount of curiosity in his voice.

“A way to perform the jutsu of course” Amarante scoffed. “Now then… This should do it” she announced as she began to go through her hand signs. Holding the rat, Amarante closed her eyes and tried to form a mental connection with the silhouette she was creating in front of her, hopefully in the way she was hoping to.

Her vision became clear and she could now see out of the spirit she was now inhabiting. She looked at her hands, the movement feeling foreign and sort of unnatural to her. They were multicoloured which just added to the proof she really had successfully transferred her consciousness into the spirit.

The girl couldn’t help but smirk. How awesome.

(OOC: Hours... So many Hours spent on this jutsu.... 5:30am... So damned tired...)

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Dec 13, 2010 16:28:37 GMT -7 // One said:

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Why do that to me Jack, why? lol

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Raiton: Sakurai, 雷光: 丹色 木 雷光, (Lightning Style: Cherry Blossom Lightning)
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates a mass of blue-white lightning petals.
Special: “Hand Seals”
Drawback: Not a complete technique, but a set-up for others.
Description: The user forms the hand seals, focusing chakra around them. They then mold the chakra into several hundred blue-white sakura petals of lightning in a three-meter radius around the user, like the Sand of a Saton user. These petals float gently around the user’s body. Each one gives out minor shocking, but together they can give strong shocks and burns akin to a C rank shock. The petals last until the user chooses to dispel them. The user can control these techniques in a fifteen meter radius around them.
Limit: Must have Raiton



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Amarante was bored, Uchiha and the Great Hoshigaki were still sitting on that damn rock of theirs helping out their leader or whatever. It was so annoying! She wanted attention now, she’d just mastered an A rank jutsu, doesn’t she deserve attention for that? She rationalised that what they were doing was important though, they had been sitting on that rock of there’s for hours now.

But still she wanted something to do so she fiddled around with hand signs, seeing what would happen. She was fiddling around with hand signs usually affiliated with lightning jutsu, slowly going through it and pushing her hands forward. A small burst of lightning appeared though it quickly died.

Curious as to what the girl was doing, Uchiha spoke up. “What jutsu are you trying to perform?” He questioned from atop his big rock, which was awesome by the way, his eyes still closed, engrossed in what he was doing flip side.

Amarante lazily looked over to him resisting the urge to yawn despite just creating a lightning bolt in front of her. “Nothing in particular” she said slowly, half asleep. “Just forming some random hand signs and seeing what would happen.” After speaking her gaze would drift to the sky as she slowly fell to her back.

Uchiha wasn’t exactly impressed by this. “You know it’s dangerous to do that” he cautioned her. “You don’t know what you’re doing if you just randomly go through hand signs like that, you might accidentally hurt yourself or us over here.” His voice was full of discrete concern but Amarante just shrugged.

“All jutsu were learnt some way” she supposed, Uchiha couldn’t exactly argue her statement. “If you don’t want me to go randomly how about you teach me a few things in the lightning release then, I could use the training in the style you know and you did say you would teach me some.”

Uchiha mulled over the proposition for a moment before forming a hand sign so fast Amarante couldn’t even notice that he had moved. A shadow clone then appeared by his side. “Let’s move away from here so we don’t accidentally interrupt them” the clone offered and by interrupt he meant hit them with electricity.

The two made there way away from the group and began to train, Clone Uchiha taking the lead. “Alright what I’m teaching you is the ‘Lightning Style: Cherry Blossom Lightning’ technique” the clone announced forming hand signs slow enough from Amarante to memorise.

A swirl of lightning then surrounded Uchiha, no it wasn’t a swirl of lightning. It was a swirl of flower petals. This confused Amarante for a moment but considering that Uchiha had said he was going to teach her some lightning jutsu she decided to keep away from the petal which engulfed a three meter area around Uchiha clone, Amarante being four meters away.

“I wouldn’t touch them” Uchiha warned. “They may not look like it but they’ll give you a shock if you touch them.” Amarante nodded in understanding. She was right to be cautious of the petals then.

Deciding to give it a shot, Amarante formed the hand signs for herself and pushed her chakra out from her body trying to create what Uchiha had, flower petals. The result was far from satisfying though and electricity just crackled around her like when she performed the lightning armour technique.

Disappointed Amarante dropped her jutsu attempt and tried again, this time trying to put some distance between herself and the lightning but the result was exactly the same as her last attempt and ended in failure. She was sure she would get it though, it wasn’t nearly as difficult as the astral projection technique after all.

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With her attempts so far resulting in failure, Amarante crossed her arms in thought though forgot that she was still encased in lightning and electrocuted herself., a shock going through her system. “… Ouch…” she moaned after the lightning jolted through her, clone Uchiha just managed to laugh.

“Really girl I was worried you’d hurt yourself performing random hand signs but now that you’re performing correct hand signs you’re actually putting yourself at more of a risk, how amusing” the clone light heartedly teased the girl.

Amarante was having none of that however. “Shut up!” she bellowed reforming the hand signs and pushing chakra from her body. In her haste she managed to make some success with the jutsu as the outline of flower petals were coming into existence though they were far from being complete

More hand signs were formed by the girl as the petals began to fade and some more, more corporal petals took their places. Amarante smiled, she thought the potentially harmful or maybe even deadly flower petals were cute. Mastering this technique was a ways to go though as the petals she created could be counted fairly easily unlike Uchiha’s who she had no way of counting, there were hundreds of blue white petals when he performed the technique.

“Fifteen” Uchiha commented, causing Amarante to shoot him a confused look. “You created fifteen petals with the jutsu, a long way off the hundreds you have to create for the jutsu to be considered even remotely effective.”

Not liking how he was putting things, Amarante put her hands into the first hand sign for the jutsu and spoke. “Don’t you worry with this next attempt I’ll get it down easy, just watch me” she beckoned of the man, forming the rest of the hand signs confident that she could perform the jutsu perfectly.

While her attempt wasn’t exactly perfect, Amarante did manage to make a lot of progress with the technique. There were about a hundred blue white petals dancing around Amarante’s form, aimlessly unless told other wise. She wanted to touch them, they were just that good looking, but she knew better then to as Uchiha had warned her about it.

Resisting the urge Amarante decided that even though there wasn’t enough petals of chakra that she’d work out the other aspects of the jutsu. She had rationalised that she’d be able to control them somehow but to what extent? She focused on pushing them forward slowly, making sure that they wouldn’t accidentally make contact with her from behind.

The petals of chakra moved forward at her command, drifting at about one meter a second. Fifteen second passed and they wouldn’t go any further giving Amarante the information that they’d be able to reach fifteen meters around her until her control of them became diminished.

With that new information there was only one thing left to do, she had to create more blue white petals of lightning chakra. Letting the jutsu drop down, Amarante heard Uchiha speak. “There are more variations of this technique which we will go into once you have mastered this basic version of the jutsu” he informed her.

Amarante nodded in confirmation. True that this jutsu was a beautiful one, she wasn’t that far gone of a woman to not admit it, but she had no use for it if she couldn’t use the technique in a useful way which to her meant a combatant way.

Forming the hand signs once the flower petals were no more, Amarante let her hands move in a flurry of signs so she could give the jutsu another attempt. This time she was able to create an amount of petals that almost completely hid her small form as they danced around her.

Amarante smiled, this jutsu may also be good for obscuring vision.