- time [P]

[ryo]

Ash was all that remained of a once blazing campfire. It was early morning, and the sunlight was just beginning to break through the forest canopy. Streams of light slowly creeped across the forest floor, illuminating the brownish leaves that littered the ground, eventually making contact with a foot. The light crawled from the man's foot to his knee, then to his waist, and his chest, eventually making it's way to the man's face. As the light touched his closed eyes, he flinched for a moment, and fleshy lids peeled back. Ivory optics were revealed, embracing the morning with a tiredness that was typical for a vagabond.

The fellow sat up from his spot on the ground and rushed a hand through a messy crown of jet-black hair. "hnn..." he grunted, wiping away the crust that had collected in the corners of his eyes. After a long, loud yawn, he muttered something at an almost inaudible tone. "Byakugan.." His eyes lit up for a brief moment, a fleeting scan of the outlying land; such was his normal morning ritual.


"...huh."

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[✗ Kaeor ✗]

There was nothing too vibrant on him as he donned a pitch black kimono and tactical gloves on his fingers. His own tactical vest was above the kimono that held an assortment of items [Exploding Pouches, Mini gas mask, MPGs, Gas bombs, and soldier pills]. Beneath was a protective layer of mesh and under that he wore a plain white shirt. Above the typical ninja footwear he wore black pants with four pouches at his waist. Each pouch held different items that the shinobi had previously sorted out and organized. Between the four pouches they retained multiple items - kunai, hikari, senbon, exploding tags, mine tags, smoke grenades, binoculars, and contacts. Some items in higher stock than the other ones.

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So close. So close.

...

We're here.

It was just like that that the shinobi reached the grounds of someone that he had once believed to be equal. It wasn't until he noticed the ample amount of days the man had spent away from the village on his own "vacation" that he realized the truth. The serpent beneath his feet slithered at uncanny speed heading towards the desired location of where locals had mentioned the signs of smoke and fire.

In a instant he came and would enter the circular fray. Nothing but forestry and the such would be around them as he patiently stood thirty meters away from his opponent.

Beneath those quiet violet eyes would lurk his crimson bloodline as the rather large snake flicked its forked tongue in the direction of the "lost" youth. Hands remained inside his kimono though his senses remained ever alert.

"Any last words Yahiko?"

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Sharingan (写輪眼 "Copy Wheel Eye,") 3rd Tomoe
Rank: "A"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: An eye containing three tomoe will allow the ninja to see the image of an attacker’s next move from the slightest muscle tension in their body. This prevents wasteful movement and allows the Uchiha clan member to conserve much needed chakra in battle. It allows them to synchronize their movement to strike at an area moments before their opponent is even in that spot, essentially allowing them to strike out and hit their opponent before they're even there. This also opens up a door to more powerful techniques within the third tomoe Sharingan eye.
Special: ---
Drawback: The user can not copy techniques which are unique to another bloodline. User must have the Release, or Perception in order to copy the type of Release or Perception they wish to learn. The user is incapable of copying a technique that has specific prerequisites such as another technique is needed first.
Description: Sharingan (写輪眼 "Copy Wheel Eye") 3rd Tomoe The eyes of the user turns red in color with a black pupil in the middle. Three Tomoe (Comma) appears around the pupil. Each eye gains three Tomoe. At this stage the user is at the peak of power and capabilities of the Sharingan without sacrificing anything. At this stage the user's eye seems somewhat better as they are capable of piercing more into GenJutsus. At this stage they are capable of predicting medium movements, as well as copying medium techniques. When the user first gains the third tomoe the user is capable of seeing through GenJutsus of "A" Rank and under. At this stage the user is capable of predicting medium movements of the user. The user is capable of predicting five movements. At this point the user is capable of copying techniques with greater proficiency. The type of copying does not add into the user's overall Training Points within a Class Level. When a user copies a technique to learn for every regular training point a user gets the user will get two additional training points which is called Sharingan Points. These points allows a user to learn techniques faster, but this affects the user's learning capabilities but not the overall Training Points to raise a Class Level.
Limit: Must be part of the Uchiha clan (うちは一族 "Uchiha family"), Must know Sharingan (写輪眼 "Copy Wheel Eye,") 2nd Tomoe. Only obtainable after three events or interaction missions after obtaining Sharingan (写輪眼 "Copy Wheel Eye,") 2nd Tomoe

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[ryo]

A familiar voice.

Yahiko's eyes flared brightly, the pride of his ancestors blazing through the bulging veins on his head. The man turned his head, despite clearing being able to see the man - even with his eyes closed. "It was just a matter of time, I suppose..." he said under his breath, getting to his feet. A noticeable series of pops could be heard as he stood erect; he wasn't in the pristine physical state that he'd once been in.

"Nice pet,", he said with a lighthearted smirk. "I take it you're not here to catch up, eh, Kaeor?" It was an honest inquiry; Yahiko had been labelled a nuke-nin for quite some time, and just now was someone arriving to claim his bounty. For a while, I thought that maybe the Hokage didn't care that he had left and never returned. Or maybe he was believed to be dead. Regardless, the Hyuuga hadn't taken any kind of battle stance -- he wasn't going to initiate a battle, as he was no longer a warrior.

He was but a humble vagabond.

Byakugan 130 Yards
Rank: CCCCCCBBB
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Allows the user
Special: ---
Drawback: Byakugan user has a 360 degree field of vision, with the exception of a small blind spot behind the user's first thoracic vertebrae (as stated in the manga). Lacks the power of Analysis. This is demonstrated in an anime filler arc by Ranmaru, who created false chakra circulatory systems through the use of a dōjutsu (possibly a bloodline limit), causing the Byakugan to see inanimate objects as people and the objects themselves at the same time. However, it is not considered canon in a filler episode that a Byakugan user is unable to see the workings of such an "illusion".
Description: Can see the minuscule chakra pressure points. With the use of certain hand seals, it also has telescopic, X-ray, and thermal vision. The Byakugan is the key to Konohagakure's strongest Taijutsu, the Jūken, as it allows the user to see the chakra circulatory system of an opponent. Each level of its insight can therefore be mystified by proper means. When first learned they are capable of seeing up to fifty yards in a 360 Degree radius except for that blind spot. Each time learned this amount of distance is increased by ten yards. When the user reaches up to a distance of One hundred yards the amount of training is increased to that of "B" Rank Level Training. The amount of distance is still increased by ten. When the user reaches up to a distance of Four Hundred Yards the user is capable of seeing even further but with an amount of A Rank Training.
Limit: Must be part of the Hyuuga Bloodlimit.

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[✗ Kaeor ✗]

"You guessed correctly." The Uchiha confirmed in a way that express the seriousness and lack luster of the situation. He wasn't sent here to simply retrieve the shinobi but eliminate him. It was a waste to be honest, a waste of potential. Yet it was necessary in order to express the fact that law always trumped any sort of power that fought against it. Upon his birth into Konoha his fate had been sealed completely with zero possibility for escape. The rebel had tested and fought against faith, and in turn faith's retribution had been sent to deliver divine judgment for those who sinned with such - death.

"Tsk." The teeth of the shinobi clicked just as he reached the weapons inside of his garment. Spider like arms would slide in their respective places in the kimono just as he stepped forward upon the snake. The arms of the shinobi would fling forward and release two ivory kunai that aimed straight towards the vagabond. Seals would commence and follow after the initial throw knowing that this shinobi would put up quite the fight.

"Tis' a shame. We could've been legendary."

[ryo]

It really was a shame.

Yahiko was once the pride and joy of his parents, as well as his clan. How far had he fallen? To relinquish the nobility and honor that he once upheld with great respect and admiration . . . for the life of a nomad, a wanderer, a vagabond . . . it didn't make sense. But alas, in the game of life, little ever made any actual sense.

Kunai knives. Nostalgia. He could remember, for a fleeting moment as he began to spin, his days back in the shinobi academy. Throwing kunai knives was quite an elementary skill, one he had mastered long ago. The dome of spinning chakra was surely more than enough to deflect the tools, rendering them useless. He continued to spin, like a child's toy spinning top, and his Byakugan kept focus on Kaeor.

There was no turning back now.

Hakkeshou: Kaiten (Hands of the Eight Divinations: Divination Whirl)
Rank: C
Skill: Taijutsu
Effect: The user releases chakra from their tenketsu while spinning like a top, creating a dome of spinning chakra that will repel Ninjutsu and Taijutsu.
Special: --
Drawback: --
Description: The user spins like a top, secreting chakra from all of their tenketsus at once. A blue dome of whirling chakra forms around them, spinning with such force that a wind is whipped up around the dome. The dome has a radius of five meters. Ninjutsu and Taijutsu strikes are blown back if they come into contact with the dome. However, strikes of B rank or higher can pierce the dome, causing a chakra reaction that will most likely blow both the user and the attacker backwards.
Limit: Must learn from a Jyuuken teacher or at the Hyuuga Mansion. Must be a Hyuuga. Must know Jyuuken Advanced Stance. Must know Hakkeshou: Sekishokyuu.

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[✗ Kaeor ✗]

The attacks were inferior causing the kunai to be reflected off the Hyuuga's spinning dome of chakra. This fight was truly going to be a promising one. The easier set of seals had been complete allowing the Konoha shinbo to bring forth a companion, a clone of his into combo that would appear behind him. Both shinobi would take the time to lace their ears with chakra after successful seals in order to deafen themselves to the onslaught.

More seals would be wrought forth from them both as the clone sprung into action. "How long do you plan to hide behind that barrier?"

The clone raced forward in stride reducing the distance to thirty meters and strafing to the west of his opponent. Yet the Jounin had completed the necessary seals to attack. He would press his hands to his lips in order to ignite a sphere of flames from his mouth that would simply mow him over and explode upon collapsing against the barrier if it would reach it. It was aimed at the very position of the Hyuuga.
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Self Deafening
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user temporarily deafens their ears.
Special: Dragon
Drawback: Cannot be undone until time has expired. Cannot be used on others.
Description: In performing the said hand seal, the user focuses charka to their own eardrums and creates a thick layer over them. In doing so, the user becomes temporarily deaf and incapable of hearing sounds what so ever. This layer of charka however may not be canceled by will, and the user must wait for the duration of the jutsu for it to end. The effects of such a jutsu last only two posts due to the weak strength of it, however it is completely effective at making the user deaf.
Limit: Must have Sound Release

Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Jutsu)
Rank: B
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The Kage Bushin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Jutsu) is a increased and stronger form of the Regular Bushin jutsu which is a meer Genjutsu. Kage Bushin allows the clones to actually inflict damage upon the opponent, They can even use jutsu for they carry their own chakra circulatory system making it even impossible for the Hyuuga clan members to tell them apart from the original. Each clone that the user makes divides his.her chakra up evenly between them making ten clones means each clone has one tenth the original users chakra supply. The clones are real enough they even bleed when cut but when inflicted with enough damage the clone disappears.
Special: A special Handsign where the user crosses the two first fingers of each hand making a cross.
Drawback: The average user can only make about 5 clones. Excessive use of the Clone jutsu can leave the use extremely low on chakra. When the clones are destroyed the user does not get a return in charka.
Description: The Kage Bushin is an Exact Replica of the user and can not in anyway be proven to be a copy not even by the most elite of jutsu. Unless taken to the test and actually harmed.
Limit: Must be an ANBU. Must be Chuunin in order to get this technique. Kage only is capable of allowing someone to learn.

Self Deafening
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user temporarily deafens their ears.
Special: Dragon
Drawback: Cannot be undone until time has expired. Cannot be used on others.
Description: In performing the said hand seal, the user focuses charka to their own eardrums and creates a thick layer over them. In doing so, the user becomes temporarily deaf and incapable of hearing sounds what so ever. This layer of charka however may not be canceled by will, and the user must wait for the duration of the jutsu for it to end. The effects of such a jutsu last only two posts due to the weak strength of it, however it is completely effective at making the user deaf.
Limit: Must have Sound Release

Katon - Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Great Fireball Technique)
Rank: "C" "B" Rank [30 SP | B]
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The user is capable of performing a few handseals in which gives them the capability of blowing a large body of fire in size of a large sphere that has great fire proportions and explosive capabilities.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: Depending on the Rank, is dependent on how strong or how much the user is capable of doing with the Goukakyuu no Jutsu.
Description: The user quickly performs a few handseals. The user then places the hand over their mouth creating a small like circle. This technique in turn is then to help the user control the great flame. The use then blows out and creates a large fireball that twice the size of a normal human body. When the "C" Rank version is first learned the user is only capable of blowing out the Great Fireball that is cannot be moved or go anywhere else. This also means that the technique does not explode in a fiery explosion, but burns greatly to anyone that is caught within the technique. When the user learns the "B" Rank version then the user is capable blowing the Great Fireball into the distance, sending it away from the use it to hurl towards the very opponent. This technique is only capable of going into a straight line and this is capable of having the size three times the size of a human body. This technique when launched at an opponent then becomes dangerous because at this point the technique can explode causing damage that is even more devastating.
Limit: Must have the Fire Release

[ryo]

"As long as I can.."

Eyes of such clairvoyance rarely missed a detail. Yahiko could see his friend putting his tactics into play; creating a doppleganger and proceeding to have a ball of fire racing towards him. With intense focus, the vagabond allowed chakra to explode from his tenketsu, more than what he was already using for his divination whirl. The dome of spinning chakra grew exponentially, and rapidly - increasing in size greatly, and taking the flames head-on.

Hakkeshou: Daikaiten (Hands of the Eight Divination: Great Whirl)
Rank: B
Skill: Taijutsu
Effect: An advanced version of Hakkeshou: Kaiten, the user releases a greater amount of chakra from their tenketsu while spinning like a top, creating a defensive chakra dome of a greater size.
Special: --
Drawback: --
Description: The user begins to spin like a top, excreting chakra from their tenketsu at a much higher level than the Hakkeshou: Kaiten. This creates a dome of spinning chakra that will repel or stop Taijutsu, projectiles, and Ninjutsu of B rank or less. The radius of the giant dome is ten meters, and is capable of blowing opponents backward up to fifteen meters.
Limit: Must learn from a Jyuuken teacher or at the Hyuuga Mansion. Must be a Hyuuga, Must know Hakkeshou: Kaiten, must know Jyuuken Advanced Stance, Main House Only.

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[✗ Kaeor ✗]

Kaeor

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How truly painful.

This game was getting quite old to the Uchiha as he watched the Hyuuga incessantly spin, chakra pouring out from his tenketsu. The sharingan remained eternally locked on the features of the rogue, waiting for an err in his rhythm. He had dropped off from the snake onto the ground below. Meanwhile two exploding pouches would be extracted from his person.

1. 2. 3...

The arms of the youth would throw forward and release the exploding pouches that had enough previously calculated hang time to impact the barrier upon explosion or become quite close.

Kage Bunshin

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The bunshin would pick up both reflected kunais that had bounced from the dome into the dirt earlier. The digits would flap and move forth with a great happiness to spur another jutsu into creation. A single black mist would rise from his position into the sky above his opponent's radius and the clones.

Black drops of rain would spur three seconds after the exploding pouches hit just to make sure that no fire would be created upon the land they stood on. Such a jutsu would reinforce Kaeor to be more careful with his own katon techniques.

Kagehebi-Tatsu

The serpent would allow the master to dismount, the teachings of it ready to be sported for all to see. Rearing it's head it would plunge it's gargantuan body into the depths below finding the soil soft enough to do so. It would only slither twenty meters below the ground in a slow manner without need to currently rush.
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Suiton - Kokuun no Jutsu (Black Clouds)
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A technique in which a user creates a form of black clouds that may be used in conjunction with a Fire type of technique do to the flamible components.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: : This is a water based technique. After forming the necessary hand seals, a black mist will emit from the user’s body and rise into the sky. Black clouds will form, releasing a flammable rain of oil onto the targets. The oil is easily flammable and can cause Katon techniques to backfire, hurting the Katon user with the technique instead. Affects Katon attacks used after this technique is used and lasts for two turns or until a Katon technique is used that burns the oil.
Limit: Water Release

Tunneling [10 TP]
Rank: D
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: Allows the user to move through the ground, assuming it is soft enough.
Special: ---
Drawback: Puts a strain on the user’s muscles. The maximum amount of time this technique may be used for continuously is three posts. Once the time is up the user must wait for 1 round before using again. Cannot be used on rock, or anything as hard as or harder than rock.
Description: The animal companion builds upon their own innate ability, and expands it into a full scale battle technique. This allows the user to move through soft substances by simply digging and pushing the ground out of their way. If the ground is too hard however, the user will be unable to dig through it.
Limit: Animal companion with innate ability to produce tunnels.

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[ryo]

Another page turned.
Ah, but what's this? The back cover.

Wonder what that means . . .

Eyesight that was unparalleled by any other bloodline on the planet saw it all. Kaeor's tactics were sound and quite effective. While he had grown stronger in all aspects of the word, Yahiko had lingered in leisure time for far too long - he was weak. Time seemed to slow to a crawl as he watched what happened, he watched his foes moves. His gaze calmed out, veins retreating beneath his skin, the dome of chakra deteriorating.

He saw the ominous, black clouds materializing above, not with his Byakugan, but with his normal eyesight. A drop of black liquid landed on his forehead and slid down his face in a streak, almost cool to the touch. The another, and another. His eyes dropped from the sky, and down to Kaeor.

" . . . goodbye, old friend . ."

His eyes gently shut, and he awaited the inevitable.

[✗ Kaeor ✗]

The AnBu Captain could only watch as the lone opponent ceased spinning, bringing that dome of chakra to an abrupt end once the pouch connected. The wrinkle in time allowed the pitch black rain to assault the fabric and skin of all who stood in its radius. A single toothpick had been placed in between the lips of Kaeor, realizing that his opponent had accepted defeat, abandoning the will to struggle from an outcome that had remained inevitable.

"You can never escape your past. It follows you everywhere you go and knows all of your hiding spots. At the end of the day when you think your safe and sound. When you think Yahiko, you can actually stop running and catch your breath, you need to keep running.

Because too soon, will that determined hound be right upon your heels."

The words of the figure had been spoken and simultaneously hand seals had been completed in the process of speech. Palms would collide together as streams of fire would race from his side towards the pools of oil, igniting a raging twisting fire in the midst of it all. It would consume Yahiko less something majestic occurred such as movement.
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Katon: Hibashiri: (Fire Element: Racing Fire)
Rank: "C", "B" [C]
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A Fire technique in which the user shoots out two streams of fire along each side of the user towards a group of enemies in which encircles around the enemy creating a wall of fire.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: The user first performs the handseals that they need. Then they slam their hands together as the user concentrates along the heat around them. Focusing their chakra, two streams of fire is launched from the user, one along the left, and another along the right. These streams shoot off towards multiple enemies. The user is capable of creating streams of fire within the distance of fifty meters, encircling enemies within twenty-meter radius. The fire is two meters in width as the height reaches up to five meters in the air as it spins violently trapping those within. This type of fire is used as an encasing Jutsu, capable of trapping the opponents inside using intensive heat for the enemy. This type of fire when first learned the user is capable of just encircling the enemies as the speed of the fire entraps the enemies within. When the user learns the "B" Rank version of this technique the user is capable of enclosing the Fire to burn the enemies within a ring of fire as it ends. This process takes one turn to do. This technique is also capable of being used to shoot out a ring of fire towards the opponents if the user wishes.
Limit: Must have the Fire Release

[ryo]

". . heh . . ."

A smile, at the oddest of times, managed to grow upon his face - for the last time.

The light was brilliant and blinding, almost unreal. For a brief moment, Yahiko wondered whether this light was that of the flames about to consume him . . .

Or the heavens accepting him.

He hadn't any regrets. He tasted the violent life of a warrior, and he tried to trade it for the calm life of a vagabond. He was well off, for a while, but eventually the tides of war rushed to him once again. In the end, he couldn't outrun the demon called shinobi; no one can.

There was no pain. He had died long before the flames even touched him.

[ Deceased ]

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[Zetsumei]

ded boy be ded

[✗ Kaeor ✗]

Just as the flames consumed the tarred soul of the shinobi they would be put out in mere moments due to the oil substance not remaining completely true. He would walk over to the shinobi, no, the vagabond and loot him of all belongings. Once he had completely pried them away onto his own person he would pick up the body and sling it over the shoulder. Tatsu would rise from the earth, deeply saddened to have missed such a spectacle. Nonetheless she would carry the clone and Kaeor upon her scaled frame. They were returning back to the lands that the vagabond should have stayed in.

[Looted + Exit]

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Mo Village location acquired from hiz map.

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[ｒａａｈｎ]

loot approved.