Demon Travels

[Yaban]

The day had start like most. The sun came up. Yaban headed out for some training. But what now faced the boy was a mission unlike anyother that he had taken in his life. It was infact his first but a very important one indeed. He was given the task to recover the demon Yonbi for his country. What would happen after that was unsure but Yaban decided not to think of it because his life could very well end during this mission. As the boy walked down the steep rocky slope that did a good job of concealing the village, the very place it from protecting was fading out of view.

It would take a few to travel all the way to the see country and Yaban only had a vague idea of how to get there. Hopefully the direction given to him on the scroll were accurate. Even thought this very same scroll had given him very detailed instructions as the the technique he was going to learn, Yaban wanted to keep the balance that had been instilled in him by his uncle. He couldn't deny that he had wanted to gain greater profficiency in his native Arishu ninjutsu. The boy had fallen behind and now it was time to make some progress.

The boy picked up speed to a full sprint down the slope until he had reached flat ground in an area with a light amount of grass on it. He looked behind him too see the larger mountainous gorge that concealed the stone village which he called home. After doing this, the young ninja knelt close to the ground and let an ant that had bee crawling near by, crawl onto his finger tip. "Let's begin."

Chibiarinesuto (Minor Ant Nest)
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user allows the ants in his body to form a temporary nest in the earth below him.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: The user is immobile while forming the nest.
Description: The user forms the hand seal, focusing chakra down into the earth below them, causing ants to stream discretely down into the ground, digging a small nest, no more than a meter in diameter, under the ground beneath them. At the user’s discretion, the ants may burst up from the nest and swarm. Limit: Must be of the Arishu Clan. Must have Earth Release.

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Yaban thought over the fact that he was relatively under experienced when it came to techniques of his own clan. He needed a method by which he could summon a relatively moderate amount of ants in the ground beneath him. For this he would need to command the ants with his chakra signals to form a small nest beneath him so that he could utilize their abilities in a unexpected manner.

The ants were his birth right to control and he needed to take command of them. With this reality placed firmly in him men, the brown eyes of the boy shifted to the ground beneath him. He could feel the squirming life forms beneath him. They gave off vibrations like one giant being fragmented into many different sentient pieces. Yaban performed the hand seals and thrust the chakra fiercely from its origin and into his lower appendages. There the chakra swirled around and separated into two pools of energy, one for each leg. The chakra took on water like qualities and began to spin around and around. The energy splashed like two cups of water that were being shaken and spun by two children. As the energy bubbled and percolated and started to boil in a sense. The steam that was produced from such precise chakra control left the legs of the young shinobi and seep into the ground. As this happened, the boy would form hand seals and activate ant command. As he did this, extra chakra was released into the ground to meet the ants below.

Almost as if chakra were their special treat, the ants sprang to life to do their master’s bidding. The “chakra steam” that had been emitted by the young arishu took on the form physical form of a pheromone that was recognizable to the ants. As it made contact with the hundreds of thousands of ants in the ground it was almost as if they had been stopped in their tracks. After a few seconds of pause, the ants would alter whatever current path they were. Even solider ants that lay of the periphery of the colony five feet away caught the signal and rushed by the meet the others. As this amorphous organic blob slowly took form, Yaban noticed that they were shaping themselves into an orb around the queen that was resting under the soil. Yaban realized through this that the main priority of the ants was the queen. This was valuable knowledge because Yaban would need to decide while using these techniques if he was going to sacrifice an entire colony of ants to overwhelm his opponent.

This was the basis for a lot of his Arishu clan techniques moving forward and he knew this. Yaban was confident that he was making progress with his original clan techniques but needed to shift his focus back onto the task at hand. So the boy then dropped his stance and lets the ants roam free. Some of the ants scurried to the surface and met him at his feet. So then Yaban commanded all of them to come forth from their earthen capsule. All of them soon revealed themselves from the earth. There were far more than the boy had invisioned in his mind. Satisfied with his actions, the boy was race forth from his previous training ground toward his ultimate destination: The Sea Country.

[Naota]

bugs. +10

[Yaban]

Phantasm Perception
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: With this technique the user is capable of performing Jutsus that deals with the type of perception of Phantasm kind.
Special: ---
Drawback: Without this the user is unable to perform Jutsus dealing with the Phantasm Perception.
Description: Phantasm Perception creates a mental image usually only the user and the opponent (or opponents) of the technique can perceive. These are considered to be as personalized techniques that affects the opponent's mind. These techniques could be messages, dream stopping, complete disarray techniques. Phantasm Techniques are known to harm the person's mind, making them feel weaker, harming them through the perception of the mind but not with real life effects. Phantasm techniques are all in their heads, and are known to make people go crazy. Third parties viewing or studying the scene do not notice the phantasm. All phantasms are mind-affecting Jutsus.
Limit: No Limitation

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As he ran from his native land the young shinobi kept in mind that he needed to keep his priority on the mission. The first part of his mission had already started; he was to learn the phantasm Perception. This wouldn’t be the hardest thing in the world to do and the young shinobi was in need of an addition to his genjutsu repertoire. The First thing he would have to do is identify what phantasm Perception actually was. As he flashed through the barren landscape of the earth country he thought to himself.

When he thought about this perception he reached deep into his memories about his travels with Katsura. The scene takes place deep in the Bear country. The cloudiness of the memory leaves many details undeveloped but as the memory swirled into focus it was clear that an eleven year old Yaban:

The day was but a dense fog hand developed over the land. The two shinobi moved swiftly through the fog on a non-descript mission. Soon the two darted between a group of trees and into a clearing. As he was about to keep moving, Yaban was halted in his tracks by his sensei. The force of being stopped made yaban cry out but before he could even make a sound, Katsura put the back of his hand to silence his student. “What are we do...?” At the sound of this unsolicited noise the stone jounin turned and gave his pupil a death stare. He then closed his eyes and took a knee. Feeling the ground after a few minutes the Jounin would rise from his kneeling stance as if he were getting ready for something. Yaban would only look on as his master stood as still as the trees that they were near in preparation. After a few seconds, Yaban was confused as to what was going on. Katsura looked over his shoulder and smirked at his nephew for then it could be heard.

From deep in the fog an intense roar would be heard. The ground started to shake and the pebbles on the ground started to hop slightly from the weight of the approaching creature. Before long a bear running on all fours came into view. It was a sight that the young Arishu would never forget as bear stopped right in front of the pair of ninja and rose to his full height of twelve feet. Yaban could feel the terror rising within him. If it hadn’t for the smirk that his master had given him beforehand the boy would have broken rank and run away. The fear within the boy was reaching its apex as Katsura formed a string of hand seals and stared the bear directly in the face. The snarling bear growled as he stared back at the genjutsu master for a few seconds then suddenly went dough eyed. Yaban looked around in astonishment as the behemoth of a bear whimpered, turned and ran as if he had seen an even bigger bear.

Yaban exited the realm of his memories. He recounted the power that could be achieved from this perception. As he finally surfaced from his own mind’s stories he noticed that the landscape had changed. He was no longer darting through the barren, rocky landscape that was familiar to him. He had arrived at tall grasses and wide open plains. This new place was the grass country. Yaban looked above him as some birds circled overhead. He had found the subjects on which he could test his new skill.

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[Yaban]

Phantasm Perception
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: With this technique the user is capable of performing Jutsus that deals with the type of perception of Phantasm kind.
Special: ---
Drawback: Without this the user is unable to perform Jutsus dealing with the Phantasm Perception.
Description: Phantasm Perception creates a mental image usually only the user and the opponent (or opponents) of the technique can perceive. These are considered to be as personalized techniques that affects the opponent's mind. These techniques could be messages, dream stopping, complete disarray techniques. Phantasm Techniques are known to harm the person's mind, making them feel weaker, harming them through the perception of the mind but not with real life effects. Phantasm techniques are all in their heads, and are known to make people go crazy. Third parties viewing or studying the scene do not notice the phantasm. All phantasms are mind-affecting Jutsus.
Limit: No Limitation

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The birds circled overhead as Yaban entered the grass country. He had been in this land several times and decided to take it easy as he made his way through. He walked at a moderate pace and looked at the birds overhead. He noticed that one of the three birds that were around the tree had landed squarely on a lower branch. Yaban kept walking until he had passed the tree and was six feet away. He was careful not to make the bird alerted to his presence or interest. Once he was the distance away he turned and held the tiger seal. The bird was facing away from him and was none the wiser. For the tiger seal was only a director, a marker for which to mold the chakra. The chakra spun out freely from the origin of the boy. His medium level of chakra allowed him to drain very little of his stamina to be drained. But if he consistently were to drain upon his chakra, he wouldn’t last long.

The chakra whirled out of him and shot straight up to the young ninja’s head and brain. He needed to affect the mind of his subject. It wasn’t like figment perception where one concentrates their chakra into an object or area and allow it to constantly pulse out. This was a directional type of genjutsu. From his memory, Yaban knew that he needed to shoot his chakra and aim straight for the mind. With this thought, the stone genin moved from his thoughts to action. The boy took the chakra that had built up in his own mind and concentrated on an image in his mind. Birds weren’t like humans. The image didn’t need to be as meticulously created, paying close attention to details wasn’t as important.

In the realm of his imagination, Yaban saw the bird sitting merely on the branch of the tree. Whatever problems that the bird had were far from sight. Suddenly without warning the mood of the situation turned grim as the tree started to creek and sway as if a strong wind had suddenly blown in but the air hung still. No, the tree was beginning to come to life as two smaller branches near the large branch that the bird was sitting on folded in as if to grab the bird. In reaction, the bird chirped with dread as it took flight in order to get away. The tree reached out toward the bird in pursuit but was bound by its earthen entrapments.

Yaban exited the scenario that he had built up in his mind and let the chakra swirl in and out of his will. Yaban looked at the bird and activated his illusion. On his command, the chakra the chakra percolated around in his head and a shot out from the chakra nodes located in his eyes and skull as a whole. The chakra moved as if it had a mind of its own. Swooping and honing in on the target before it. The chakra struck the bird with almost electric force entering its body and working its way to the brain. As this happened, the bird on its perch suddenly tensed up. Yaban looked on as the scenario that he had played out in him mind took shape before him. The bird took flight just as had in his mind’s conception. Being satisfied with what he had created, Yaban continued forth with his journey.

The boy felt that his travelling was taking a sizable amount of time. He was half was through the land of grass and the sun was beginning to go down. He hoped to be in the fire country by dawn. As he mulled over all this information in his mind, the boy approached a bridge that over looked a deep gorge. The bridge had been constructed precisely by who he presumed were the ninja of the grass. From his experience, the grass ninja were resourceful and cunning but their power as an entire nation was yet to be tested. His hard foot falls bore down on the bridge while the boy thought of his future meetings with them simultaneously.

Many wars had been fought between the stone and leaf village in this land. The boy made camp near the border with the land of fire as he thought over their relationship. If anything this travelling was a microcosm for his endeavors with these lands. If he were to gain his ultimate form of power and be the ninja that was worth of world travel, he would need to race through the grass country gaining power along the way. As for the fire country and ultimately the leaf village, he needed to test himself again that country’s greatest ninja.

The moon was out that night as the wind blew across the young ninja’s camp.

[Tieren]

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Moved to Fire

[Yaban]

Phantasm Perception
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: With this technique the user is capable of performing Jutsus that deals with the type of perception of Phantasm kind.
Special: ---
Drawback: Without this the user is unable to perform Jutsus dealing with the Phantasm Perception.
Description: Phantasm Perception creates a mental image usually only the user and the opponent (or opponents) of the technique can perceive. These are considered to be as personalized techniques that affects the opponent's mind. These techniques could be messages, dream stopping, complete disarray techniques. Phantasm Techniques are known to harm the person's mind, making them feel weaker, harming them through the perception of the mind but not with real life effects. Phantasm techniques are all in their heads, and are known to make people go crazy. Third parties viewing or studying the scene do not notice the phantasm. All phantasms are mind-affecting Jutsus.
Limit: No Limitation

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The new day started as the sun rose to its height. Yaban took down the camp that he had made and preceded with the journey. As he exited the grass country there was again a change in scenery but this time it was more subtle. Where the tall grass and somewhat jungle esc climate ended a heavily wooded terrain began. Yaban then knew that he was in the fire country from this subtle shift. As he moved into the wooded area he noticed that the trees had been cleared in fashion that created a path for any travelers and was leading them in a specific direction. The trees on the sides of this path hugged each other and made it difficult to see beyond them. The path took several twists and turns but ultimately leads Yaban to a pair of pillars with metal gates between them. The boy knew that the fire country was very well guarded but he never imagined that it would be to this extent.

As he approached the gates, two guards came into view. The guard on the left was short, squat and carried a bat-like bludgeoning weapon with in his hands. He had blond hair, fair skin, and was far more muscular that his partner. The man on the right was taller with a lankier build. He carried no weapon in his hands but had a Wakazashi tied securely to his back. He had darker hair with darker skin than his partner. The two men were clad in a similar uniforms complete with armor, arm guards, and helmets. Soon Yaban would walk up and meet the two men.
“What do you want?” the shorter man on the left said as the boy was standing before them. He smacked the club in his hand a few times while eying the boy that was before him. “Oh Yahiko calm down. Can’t you see from his forehead protector that he’s a ninja from the stone village?” Yahiko shrugged his shoulders. “Yeah but you have to be tough with these guys Kurama”. Yaban chuckled slightly at the squabble that the two men were having. In reaction, the two men abruptly stopped and eyed the boy. “Listen”, Yahiko said “you either need to turn around and go back where you came from or get escorted by me to your destination”. Yaban thought this over for a second and suddenly got a great idea. “Sure but I’m going all the way to sea country, think you can keep up?” The man nodded his head and two proceeded through the gates and into the fire country with aid of the other guard, Kurama.

Yaban knew he was falling behind in his journey. This buffoon would only set him back further. He knew nothing of the power of the Yonbi and would only impede his progress in genjutsu. But why no use this chance to practice? As the two men leapt through the trees that were before them Yaban consistently thought of a plan in his mind. He could somehow thing up an illusion to project in the man’s mind he would be able to make a hasty retreat and still make it to his mission on time. With a scenario already thought up in his mind. The boy did the tiger seal and concentrated within himself. The chakra spun out of the boy with ease and went straight to his cerebral cortex. Mixing with his thoughts and what he wanted the outcome of the technique to be, Yaban didn’t bother to look over at the man that he was casting the illusion on. This was, after all, an exercise in chakra control as well. He allowed the chakra to shoot out of his skull and straight at his target like many self-directed arrows. Yaban looked over at the man as his escort as the technique took effect.

From Kurama’s point of view, the two were traveling at amazing speed. He knew that he was matching the speed of a ninja but it was very difficult. He took a second to look of center into the distance to make sure he was staying on track. As he looked back at the path he was currently travelling a large oak was suddenly there dead center as if it had appeared out of thin air. “TREE!” Kurama didn’t how he had let it guard slip that much. For a ninja this would be a simple shift in weight to avoid such an obstacle but not for a mere solider. The man barreled into the tree but was able to use it to change his momentum to the side. He then bounced off of a nearby tree and resumed his straight and narrow path. As he continued on, he was once again joined by the stone ninja that he was supposed to be escorting. Kurama blew a sigh of relief, and wasn’t too embarrassed that the young ninja had easily avoided the tree.

From below Yaban looked up at his supposed escort as he kept moving straight toward the coast line but in the wrong direction. The genin’s illusion had worked and was now sending Kurama in the wrong direction. Yaban now knew the power of the new genjutsu that he was beginning to go into. Yaban formed the ram seal and released the genjutsu that the man was under. He could feel the chakra that was holding the man’s mind in obscurity suddenly release and with it all sense of where Kurama was at that moment. With the unwanted party finally gone Yaban turned and ran up the tree. From there he continued to travel at a blinding speed toward his destination.

As the day closed out, Yaban was able to make it to the correct coast. Bartering for a boat from a local fisherman the boy was able to get some direction and a mode of travel by sea. The sun was heading to its lowest point in the sky and all light from the land was fading away as the boy landed at sea country. Yaban docked his boat and looked on to the horizon. The Demon was out there somewhere and the boy was going to complete his mission

[Naota]

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[Yaban]

Though part of his mission was not thuroughly complete, Yaban was now arriving at the sea country and he had no chance but to face the demon now. This mission may be over his head. Death maybe be waiting for him at any moment. He couldn't lie that he was a little afraid but it was this fear that fuelled his actions and sustained him.

As the boat was brought into to shore by the lapping waves Yaban saw a small party of men gathering just off shore. "Oh great more competition". He knew that this would change things slightly but didn't care. His quest for power would be stopped by no man. He swiftly docked his boat and moved to join the rest of the group. It was time for a true test of his skills.

[Exit]