Building Bridges [Private/Training/x2]

[Ryuuchou Meimu]

For Ryuuchou and Kaizu <3





________________________________________________

[Enter]

The young medical ninja, with training scrolls and books in his bag, found himself sitting in an open field by the water, a cool and refreshing breeze drifting across his skin. His bag sat beside him, still unopened, and his back rested against a large tree, supporting him while he thought. He was clearing his mind and preparing to do some serious training.

[Deleted]

{OOC: I believe, chronologically, this thread happens without accounting for what happens during the event. At least that's the way I'm going to treat it. So I'm going to have to do the whole "Hey, ohmygosh I haven't seen you in a while" again}

[Enter]

[/b] I said, sounding slightly amazed. "Hey, I haven't seen you in a while. Not since that whole team fiasco." I continued, chuckling almost inaudibly and smiling as I sat down on the grass next to him.[/ul][/justify]

[Ryuuchou Meimu]

[Alrighty, sounds good to me haha. Should we just start training after a couple more posts?]

The medic, after clearing his mind as much as he possibly could, had begun to concentrate on a particular seal that adorned his forehead. He had come to the particular field because, of all the ones he had seen throughout the Hidden Village of the Waterfall, it was the most serene, the most conducive to clear thinking and meditation. These two things were what he truly needed for the next step in his training.

Birds chirped in greeting to the new day, leaves drifted on the wind and fell into the water, sending small ripples out, and Ryuuchou sat motionless, unaware of almost everything around him. He had already removed his headband that almost always covered his forehead and had tucked his hair slightly back, exposing the Infuin Seal completely. The medic's hands floated gently onto his crossed legs, and he was ready to begin.

That is, until a voice broke through the silence that surrounded him and shattered all of the concentration that he had amassed. He heard his name, and almost instantly the memory of a failed team formation came rushing to the forefront of his mind. He didn't even need to open his eyes to recognize the female voice.

"Kaoru!" he exclaimed, his eyes fluttering open as he turned his head to greet the kunoichi. They hadn't been the closest, since they had only met once, and briefly at that, but she was one of the few shinobi faces that he was familiar with. Plus, they had worked surprisingly well together from what he remembered, and that must have been some kind of sign.

"Its good to see you again, its been forever," he said, smiling brightly at her. Had it been anybody else, he might have been irked by the distraction, but he was always happy to speak to a friend. Especially since he didn't know many people on a social level.

"What are you doing around here? I never had pegged you as one for peaceful surroundings," Ryuuchou jested, laughing a soft laugh for a moment.

[Deleted]

{OOC: Start training ASAP, imo. Like now! >D}

CONSIDER THIS LAST HURRAH
THE COUP DE GRÂCE!
◆◆◆◆

[/center]Jod Muay
Rank: "E" Rank
Type: TaiJutsu
Effect: The basic posture of the Muay Thai Style. The basic posture needed in order to move on into the more advanced techniques of the Muay Thai style. The Jod Muay is the basic step of defending but Muay is the martial art that uses the eight limbs, two hands, two shins, two knees, and two elbows to fight the opponent.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Picture The leading foot should be pointed straight, while the other is positioned to angle at ninety degrees whilst raising the heel of the back foot. Both the knees and the body are straight, designed to create posture. Arch the back backwards slightly. This allows power to be generated for the legs. The chin must remain in the same posture as the shoulders; in essence, this means that the user must lower their chin to be level with the shoulders, while raising the shoulders and the arms for guarding purposes. The next step is to grasp the hands, keeping them raised to face level, crafting a guard with the forearms to allow defending against oncoming attacks. The eyes are straight forward, locking onto the opponent's abdomen for full view of oncoming strikes against the upper or lower body.
Limit: Must learn from a Muay Thai Master.

❖ 0 || 5 ❖

[/b] Ryuu joked, and I had to smile. I looked out at the lake then, and my humorous expression dulled slightly. I wasn't entirely beyond the whole inner peace thing, and it wasn't that I couldn't fathom it and even achieve it to an extent, when I wanted to, but a lot of the time I just felt it ruined the excitement of life.

Still. This place was... nice. Very sort of sobering - though not in the literal sense. I had managed not to get drunk today. As of yet.

"Uh, I just realized. You were probably concentrating. I'm real sorry." I said, genuinely, though the fact that he didn't seem too bothered made me stay. "To answer your question I just, uh... left... somewhere, without really knowing where I was going. And I guess I wound up here." I finished lamely, but that was really all there was to it.

With a sigh, I rolled my neck around for a moment, feeling a couple of cracks as, simultaneously, I let my whole body just relax a bit, loosen all the way through. I was stretching, unable to keep the urges to train my taijutsu at bay, working my way down quickly as I rolled my shoulders and then moved one leg back behind the other.

For a moment I idly shifted my weight back and forth between my two feet, instinctually shifting at the knee where I felt the most comfortable, that knowledge of one's own physicality that came after long practice, and simply allowed one to always be aware of things like their center of gravity, weight placement, and overall balance. My back foot came up without me really needing to tell it to; my chin leveled out till my head was pointed straight forward, all rolling motions gone. I also, of course, raised my fists, moving my right hand a considerable distance forward - my leading arm - and the left one back in closer to my body, which was now facing to the left, away from Ryuu.

I performed a few brief windmills with each arm in turn, before re-centering them and swinging a couple of slow, practice punches at an imaginary target. This whole process took all of about five seconds. While I was extending my arms with easy steadiness, I asked Ryuu more or less what he had asked me. "So, are you out here for any particular reason? Besides meditating, I mean." I shot him a glance, before I moved another punch forward into the air. They weren't anything flash, just slow, formless, without any real technique. But it was always good to maintain a good punching action.

"Hope you don't mind." I said with a little less volume, referring to my exercises, and suddenly feeling like I was intruding again, I moved another step to the left, before re-establishing my stance.[/justify][/ul]

[Nyu]

5, you have.

†Learned†

[Ryuuchou Meimu]

[Yea, good plan xD Mad stuff I wanna get through while we have this opportunity lmao]

SPOILER: Click to show

Infuin: Kai (Shadow Seal: Release)
Rank: S
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Releases the chakra gathered in the Infuin, preparing it to be used in the massive medical ninjutsu associated with it.
Special: --
Drawback: Releases all the chakra at once; You cannot release select amounts. Infuin chakra cannot be used for other techniques due to its utterly volatile nature. Drains the user of chakra, leaving them winded and tired after an Infuin technique is used.
Description: The user focuses, releasing the chakra contained within the Shadow Seal. The seal itself expands, flowing out in a black pattern along the face and chest of the user, reminiscent of a butterfly or flowering vines. The chakra contained within is released into the user’s command. The intense compression and circulation of the chakra makes it both highly powerful and highly volatile, utterly unusable for normal ninjutsu. In keeping with it’s wild nature, the chakra must be used within two rounds, including the round it is released, or it will disperse into the atmosphere, too chaotic to be controlled any longer.
Limit: Must know Infuin. Must be B ranked, must be a Medic.

[0/120]

The medic shook his head when Kauru apologized, and cleared his throat quickly before speaking. He had the feeling in his throat that if he didn't, anything he said would come out sounding hoarse and strained. He hated when that happened, but it was something that came with not having had any water that morning.

"Don't apologize, its fine. Its kind of nice to have the distraction. What I'm planning to work on isn't exactly exciting. Honestly, its kind of mentally exhausting," he said with a small smirk, rubbing a finger over his forehead without even thinking about it. When Kaoru explained what had led her there, Ryuuchou nodded his head in a type of understanding. He'd wondered before, he knew what it was like -- though he imagined it was somewhat different for her.

She stepped away a bit, and he thought she was leaving already, so his mouth opened and he almost started reaching a hand forward, but then she seemed to fall into a stance and began to do what he assumed was some sort of Taijutsu exercise. The shinobi decided to follow her example, and work on what had led him to that field in the first place.

The Infuin was a tricky thing, and it was incredibly tedious to master. However, he knew that to accomplish his dream -- to become the best medic in Takigakure -- he would need to spend the time doing so. His headband laying on his bag, he raised his right hand and formed a half Ram handseal to help him in focusing his Chakra. He was going to attempt to learn to break open his Infuin Seal, and release the Chakra that was holed up behind it.

His Chakra surged suddenly, and he began his meditation. As it was presently, his seal did not contain a great deal of Chakra, so he imagined breaking it -- and perhaps learning to harness it -- would not be as taxing and dramatic as it could be. He had spent so much time and energy on constructing it, he knew that undoing it would not be easy. In his mind he thought of it as being a knot of sorts, one that was not your average loop-and-pull, but an advanced one designed for a special purpose.

He focused Chakra around his forehead, around where the seal was located, and began to think of it as an extension of himself, an extra pair of hands. These "Chakra hands" began to pull at the seal, attempting to undo the "rope" that formed it, turning the knot into average rope once again, releasing the burden that it had been tied to contain.

He continued focusing even when Kaoru addressed him again, the only change in his body being the opening of his right eye. "See the mark on my forehead?" he asked, not motioning to it since he assumed it would be easy to see once attention was brought to it. "Its the Infuin Seal. Sort of the pinnacle of Medical Ninjutsu. I placed it on myself awhile ago, but to actually master it, I need to learn to release it first," he explained, his Chakra hands still engaging in a tug of war beneath the surface of his forehead.

Kaoru continued her exercises, and when the medic was asked if he minded, he shook his head briefly. He didn't mind at all.

[Mist]

+ 10

[Deleted]

CONSIDER THIS LAST HURRAH
THE COUP DE GRÂCE!
◆◆◆◆

[/center]Sekondo Kaze (Second Wind)
Rank: "A"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: A Brawler gets his Second Wind. Once per battle a Brawler can take one round of action to where fatigue disappears as he pushes himself more to the limit then capable. The Brawler is capable of catching his strength, feeling as if he was as strong as he first started out. Sekondo Kaze acts as if a Brawler had taken a Soldier Pill.
Special: ---
Drawback: This technique only lasts as long as the user is capable of standing, usually this lasts up to ten rounds. One round more for every class level the user is higher then "D" Class. After the initial rounds the user becomes extremely exhausted and must take the time to take a break with a day's rest.
Description: A Brawler gets his Second Wind. Once per battle a Brawler can take one round of action to where fatigue disappears as he pushes himself more to the limit then capable. The Brawler is capable of catching his strength, feeling as if he was as strong as he first started out. Sekondo Kaze acts as if a Brawler had taken a Soldier Pill. They tap into their inner energy supply and push it forth into their body. For this brief moment the user is capable of one more movement then normal within the time limit, as their strength is multiply by .05 (50%) times their normal strength.
Limit: Must be a Brawler

❖ 0 || 100 ❖

[/b] Ryuuchou responded, and I looked sideways at him from my lowered position, noticing for the first time the strange marking that was, indeed, seemingly drawn upon his forehead. But I knew of nothing like it, so it could have been some sort of Ninjutsu magic. "It's the Infuin Seal. Sort of the pinnacle of Medical Ninjutsu." Bingo. "I placed it on myself awhile ago, but to actually master it, I need to learn to release it first."

"The pinnacle of Medical Ninjutsu..." I repeated quietly, several emotions rising in me at once. First there was that primal hatred, which had evolved first from jealousy, of the mystical chakra manipulation that more or less every shinobi but me seemed to possess. Even civilians could utilize it to an extent. But I just simply fucking could not. No matter how hard I tried. The closest thing to it that I could perform was shunshin, but that was nothing compared to the miracles I'd seen executed.

Second came awe. The pinnacle indeed? At that moment, I realized actually just how powerful Ryuuchou was. The energy that radiated from him, that I had sensed before, was not simply something that came from familiarity; it was an actual capacity that, somehow - be it mystically or simply by instinct - I had sensed. I realized then that, on any organized scale of power, he probably outranked me by quite a margin.

I turned back forward, gritting my teeth . Why was it that I was not blessed with this chakra? Anger flared in me then, anger at the world, and all of the things I could not achieve in it, and then at myself, for being too weak to... whatever. I didn't really know what to think. Despite the cramps and bruises that were no doubt blooming under my coat, I resisted the urge to succumb to them and simply lay down on the grass in the shade. I could feel every impact I had sustained now, their individual points aching as the last of my adrenaline drained from my system.

But I would not give in. With a huge effort and an almost inaudible groan, I lifted myself back up into a proper posture, feeling my tired muscles protest at the effort. God, had I really been bashed this much? I had literally not noticed it till moments ago. Still, the power of the blows was undeniable. There was that nagging voice emanating from the basic logic sector of my brain, telling me to just rest for God's sake, but I ignored it, determined now to show no weakness in front of any Ninjutsu user, no matter what terms I was on with them.

I swayed for a moment as I ascended to a regular posture, and unless my mind was playing tricks on me, I thought my vision became a little blurry for a moment. Still, I lifted my arms through the barrier of exhaustion and placed them once again at their rightful posts. My legs, too, stretching out beyond the cramps and blows - shit, when had I even sustained one there? - till they too were posed at the proper angle.

Taking a deep breath, my eyes closed, building up my willpower, I would continue with the rudimentary punch-throwing of my regime. I would not let anyone see me falter. My pure Taijutsu strength would have to outmatch all of the diversity that came with chakra, and I was absolutely determined that it would.

All the while I imagined Ryuuchou would likely be concentrating on his 'Infuin' seal. 'Releasing' it. Somehow.[/justify][/ul]

[|Ayame Unbound|]

Overkill~ +10

[Deleted]

❖ 10 || 100 ❖

[/justify][/ul]

[Deleted]

❖ ? || 100 ❖

[/i] afford to do was be weak. So even as I had punched, and kicked - in a manner of speaking - I would not wince, or make any visible sign for my friend - sitting meditatively a mere few meters from me - to pick up on. I was perfectly fine.

I tried not to hesitate too long before I changed in my stance, drawing my legs in and then mirroring myself in opposite. My hands had to be adjusted too. I could have kicked out with my front knee as opposed to altering my entire pose, but I felt that that would have just been pushing my pain threshold a little too far, much as I hated to admit it.

I would proceed to lift my right knee up to my chest, stretching through the hurt, drawing it up as high and as close as I could, thankful that my hair would likely be obscuring my face as I winced involuntarily. I then let it drop, a little clumsily, really feeling the strain now, but gritted my teeth extra hard and drew it back up to my chest a second time, faster and with more force than before, hoping in my celerity I would evade the pain. Oddly enough, it seemed to work. Was I working my muscles out of their cramps and blows, or was it simply that I was renewing my energy by pumping more adrenaline through my system?

I liked the idea of the latter far better. I was getting my second wind.[/justify][/ul]

[Ryuuchou Meimu]

[10/120]

"Yea," Ryuuchou replied to the repetition of his own words. Everything then grew quiet for a moment, so his meditation continued, the Chakra within him still continuously breaking out of and reforming the shape of hands.

Since he still lacked the finesse that he knew would come with continuous training, he was more or less clawing at the seal, not actually slipping the 'fingers' around the 'knot' to undo the various workings of it. It was complicated, but that was such an understatement. He could probably say that it was like pulling teeth, but even that wouldn't cover it.

He focused on his breathing, and listened to the sound of Kaoru's exercising; it somehow focused and grounded him. His own chest rose and fell gently as he maintained complete stillness and silence. His hand still maintained the formation of the half Ram, and his Chakra hands dug beneath his forehead, searching for what he knew lay behind the Infuin Seal -- the most volatile of Chakra that, with proper practice and training, could be used to heal himself from complete destruction, heal another from complete destruction, or unleash complete destruction.

His mind was clear but racing at the same time as he concentrated on his forehead, using the marl as a focal point to converge his energies on. The idea of the Chakra hands and knot were starting to help. He could feel it.

Opening an eye, he looked at Kaoru, watching her for a moment. "What are you doing?" he asked, curious as to the nature of her exercises. "I mean, even you tell me I probably won't understand. I'm pretty inept when it comes to Taijutsu," he said, chuckling quietly. "It can kinda suck, actually... But I'm not really built to harm people, I guess," said the medic, his eye still focused on Kaoru.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

20 Kaizu

10 Ryuu

For future reference; you can't post twice in a row. Need to alternate.

[Deleted]

{OOC: Oh lol. I didn't even realize.}

❖ 30 || 100 ❖

[/b] Ryuuchou asked abruptly. I stopped my repetitious movements, the pain still evident in my body. "I mean, even you tell me I probably won't understand. I'm pretty inept when it comes to Taijutsu. It can kinda suck, actually... But I'm not really built to harm people, I guess," I paused lowering my knee back to earth slowly. I breathed out, and then decided that I was being a little petty and stupid with my whole envy thing. I decided I might as well tell Ryuuchou the full story, even if it was rather short.

"Well, honestly, I just escaped a gang of thugs I'd run into. They knocked me around a bit, but I gave back ten times worse," I grinned a little despite myself at the memory. Then I sighed. Maybe, just maybe, admitting one was in pain was a greater victory, at least sometimes, than just chewing stubbornly through it. "I'm hurting. Like everywhere. And really tired, if I'm being honest." I hesitated just a moment. "I sort of didn't want to say anything," I admitted, uncharacteristically sounding a little sheepish as I glanced at Ryuu with a small smile. To hell with it, I was tired of swallowing my grief all the time.

I gasped a little, as while I had not been forcibly holding my breath to a regular pace it had begun to grow heavy. I began to think about the work he was seemingly doing, though there was little outward sign of any exertion. I couldn't help but chuckle at my own work. "Compared to what you're doing I doubt my stretching is very complicated," I said, but I did well to hide the small amount of sadness that welled up in my chest as I did so.

"Sorry, I'll just move a little way over here." I said, moving between patches of shade over to an adjacent tree.

Despite myself, another spark of anger rose up in my chest. It lit a flame in my brain that, with a whoosh of heat, pushed all logic and self-preservation out of the window. My eyes, turned away now from Ryuuchou, flicked towards the tree standing to my left. I had to find something to release my anger upon, else it would consume me completely. I had no idea where it had come from; perhaps some sort of self-hatred, but whatever the source it was powerful.

I could scarcely control myself as, without judging the hurt I would sustain, I swung a full-blown haymaker at the tree, all the rage I had built up thrusting my arm forward as much as the muscles within it did. Another type of fire, one slightly more literal, burned at my limb as I threw it forward recklessly, but the momentary adrenaline that had flared through me momentarily allowed me not to succumb to it. My fist smashed heavily into the bark, and though the dams of my strength were drained till it was barely a trickle, I still managed to crush the first layer of the tree and bite deep into it with my fist, creating a sizable cave-in. Fortunately it was one of the thicker plants surrounding the pond.

I paused there for a moment, my hand wedged into the wood enough that it did not drop, breathing in a way that I could safely say was haggard. After a moment I tore my hand free and righted myself. My discharge seemed to have worked, as I was no longer feeling angry. Sometimes I had to disagree with common sayings. Violence could most definitely be the answer.

After a while Ryuuchou resurfaced in my mind. I looked over to where he was sitting, feeling embarrassed again. "Um. Sorry," Was all I could think to say, raising my unused hand behind my head.

All of a sudden I felt several pricks of pain in my left hand, and my eyes widened momentarily before I glanced down at it to notice it was pricked in several places with splinters. "Fuuuuuuuuuck," I breathed, knowing that the process of removing them would be a painful one.[/justify][/ul]

[Ryuuchou Meimu]

[20/120]

Ryuuchou listened closely to the bit of story that Kaoru was telling him, and his left eye fluttered open when she mentioned the thugs. He hadn't even noticed any wounds or bruises, not even a hint of pain or fatigue. 'Damn, she's really tough,' he thought, looking her over a second time. "If you want, I could take a look, see if there's anything I could do," offered the medic, ready to get up and take a break finally. He wouldn't if she didn't want, he had no intention of hurting the pride she clearly had, and rightfully so.

"What I'm doing really isn't special. I mean, its just a tedious step in moving onto something a little larger and useful. I'm literally just sitting here and concentrating," he admitted, some sort of despair in his voice. He wanted it so bad, but it was proving to be difficult for him to manage, and so he wondered if he actually had what it took to be great. He went back to his meditation then, determined to push through his insecurities.

The mark on his forehead felt as if it were burning, and though he knew it was only a psychological, subconscious response, it irked him to no end. He could feel the Chakra recesses behind the seal, compressed and held by the vacuum of the Infuin. He could almost taste it's power, ready to leak forward and break free, to fill his body and the space around him. He brought his other hand up and formed a full Ram handseal. He thought it might help him to focus better.

The Chakra fingers began to make progress, and he could feel it. They were beginning to slip in between the bindings and the crisscrosses of the Infuin rope. They didn't tug though, he wasn't sure that his grip on them was ready, so to speak. They simply loosened up the fabric, opening up space for him to actually pull the string apart, to unbind the seal and to release the load that it supported.

The medic barely heard the crunch of the bark on the tree, and didn't even bother to open his eye before Kaoru let out an exasperated curse. His attention homed in on the dent in the tree, and then the fist that Kaoru held out in front of her. He opened his other eye and immediately stood up, taking a break from the training for a moment to walk over and make sure she was ok.

"Here, let me see," he said, holding out his hand.

[Deleted]

❖ ? || 100 ❖

[/b] I began to say, but as my eyes met Ryuu's, I suddenly felt less afraid. After all, what was there to fear?

I breathed out then, in a very decisive way, and glanced down at my slightly wounded hand. Closing my eyes for a brief moment, I let my entire body prepare for what I was about to do. My right hand flexed open, and I braced myself before biting my upper and lower jaw together and gripping hold of the wooden shards embedded in the front of my hand where I had punched.

Ignoring the pain, I tore them all out in one fell swoop, and though I drew little blood, the sudden vacancy of the wounds opened them up to the cold waterside air and stung them bitterly. I hissed almost inaudibly, then blinked several times as I resisted the hurt through what seemed to be sheer willpower. I tossed the handful of splinters to the ground beside me and held my hand out to Ryuuchou. "Here." I said simply.

After he had finished treating me - in ways I understood but simply could not fathom - I would lower my hand, thank him, and reply to his earlier offer. "...You said you could help my bruises and such but... I... Well, in a way, I don't want you to." I said, trying to sound earnest so he wouldn't take offense. "I hope you understand why."

Then I gave him another small smile. It was not because I did not want the help from him; it was because I did not want the help from Ninjutsu.[/ul][/justify]

[Ryuuchou Meimu]

[?/120]

The medic took her hand gingerly, smiling softly. "Don't worry, this won't hurt. Not that you couldn't take it if it was going to," he said, placing his remaining hand on top of hers so that it was in between his own. A soft, green glow came from each of his hands, and with slight concentration he channeled his Chakra into Kaoru's hand, filling the wounds with it and urging the cells to duplicate -- to cover the wounds and heal her hand. It wouldn't take the experienced medic more than a second to rid all signs of the splinters, of the damage inflicted by the tree.

"There," he said, taking his hands away and placing them by his sides. "All set." With that, he would take a step back, shaking his head. "If you don't want treatment then that's your choice," he said, looking at her intently. "Sometimes Medical Ninjutsu isn't always the answer. Sometimes... Sometimes healing can be more detrimental than helpful," he explained, though he realized it likely didn't make the most sense. However, to him it was clearer than crystal. Just because you can heal the littlest of things doesn't mean you should.

He went back to his spot by the tree, leaving Kaoru to her training while he continued his. He had a feeling that her mind was stronger than her body, despite how focused on Taijutsu she was, and because of that, he knew she would be able to manage what her body was putting up with.

Closing his eyes once again, and forming the Ram handseal at a level position just inches from his chest, the medical ninja began anew, his Chakra almost having gone through a series of stretches after healing Kaoru. His training, he felt, wouldn't take as much effort now since he had physically exercised his energies, and though meditation was key, there was a physical aspect to the Infuin that could not be overlooked.

His Chakra surged toward the seal on his forehead and began to scratch away at it once again, being careful not to rip the fibers apart and damage the seal. Though it was strong, it was delicate as well. As is the nature of all Medical Ninjutsu, in a way. It can do so much, and pack so much power, but just one slip up or little mistake can cause chaos or harm.

His Chakra fingers begin to pull on the knot, on the fabric of the seal. He could feel the vacuum seal that had been created with the Infuin begin to loosen, he could feel bits of his Chakra slipping out and around him. There wasn't so much pressure as each of the fingers began to unravel the seal, pulling up on the virtual air tight seal. He was getting closer.

SPOILER: Click to show

Shosen no Jutsu (Healing Hands Technique) [Starter Technique, D, C] [TP: 70, 100]
Rank: D, C, B, A, S
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user heals injuries that repairs physical damage.
Special: --
Drawback: certain injuries may be impossible to cure or may take a long time to cure. The amount of chakra used is proportional to the injury required to be healed.
Description: The user gathers chakra into their hands, creating a bright green glow around them. The user then forces the healing chakra into the body of the patient, healing physical damage. This technique requires three movements to heal a minor injury and six movements to heal a major injury, minus one for every rank in this technique above D the user possesses, to a minimum of one. Starting at B rank, the user is able to heal critical injuries with this technique. Healing a critical injury requires sixteen movements, minus one movement for every rank above B the user possesses. Remove one movement from this process for every difficulty rank above D the user possesses.
Limit: Must be a medic, must know Gantai no Jutsu.

[Mist]

Grading scale has changed yay!!!

Kaizu

1st post (10x2) = 20 + 2nd post (8x2) = 16........20+16 = + 36 TP

Meimu

1st post (7x2) = 14 + 2nd post (8x2) = 16.........14 + 16 = + 30 TP

[Deleted]

❖ 66 || 100 ❖

[/b] Ryuuchou said, stepping back and shaking his head at my answer. ""Sometimes Medical Ninjutsu isn't always the answer. Sometimes... Sometimes healing can be more detrimental than helpful," He said, and I thought that maybe he got what I was trying to say. I had to be the best that I could be, without any help from any sort of Ninjutsu, because that was not who I was; I had to be independent of the boon that was granted to so many shinobi, or else risk becoming reliant on others. The path of Taijutsu - raw, Taijutsu - was the only option available to me, so that was the one I had taken.

I nodded at him as he walked away, a small nod of gratitude. The pain of the beating I had endured - that was blunt pain, a hurt that I could sustain, could dampen with willpower alone, could force myself to live and move through. But sharp, embedded little wooden knives in my fingers? That was unacceptable. I thought back to just how swiftly Ryuuchou had healed the maelstrom of small cuts on my hand, and for a second I was lost in wonder. Such power that he possessed. It was almost Godlike, the way he had simply erased my wounds from existence. There was no longer any evidence that I had ever been injured there.

Still, as I saw Ryuuchou sit back down and begin to concentrate once again, the ache in my sides, the bruising at my shoulder, the fire in my legs, it was all I could do for a moment not to simply fall to the grassy floor. It had taken immense willpower, to deny the medical shinobi's healing, to stay in this state of injury, where all my limbs were crying for rest. I had felt my brain shouting at me to just FORGET ABOUT YOUR PRIDE ALREADY, but it was more than that. It was my independence. My defiance of my handicap. And if I just bit through the agony, did not allow myself to be sundered by easy temptations, I would be one step closer to being truly powerful. With or without chakra molding.

I noticed then that, as I had punched the tree and caved in its trunk - though it still stood - one of its branches had dropped to the floor. I moved over to it then, feeling the strain in my legs chewing at my nerves, to examine the piece of wood. It was still covered in a thin layer of spindly leaves, but it appeared to be of a good weight. I grinned then as an idea came to me. A new challenge had appeared.

Even through the heat of my muscle's exhaustion, I forced them to slide under the tremendous weight of the branch - although in reality it probably was not all that heavy - and with a humongous effort I managed to lift it from the ground, hauling it first up to my knee, then past my chest, and then over my head. The exhaustion that was draining my limbs was formidable, but I refused the lure of collapse, gritting my teeth in defiance of it. With a glance over at the water's edge some three or four meters to my right, I decided I had found stage two of the challenge.[/ul][/justify]

[Ryuuchou Meimu]

[50/120]

The medical ninja breathed in and out, his chest rose and fell, his concentration increased and decreased with each passing moment. He had a full supply of Chakra, and even more Chakra than his body usually possessed held behind the Infuin Seal. So far his progress was nothing more than a thought of how he was going to tackle the releasing of the seal and the Chakra it held, and miniscule efforts to do so. He decided though, as he saw Kaoru push through all the pain that he knew she felt, that he needed to kick it up a notch. He felt inspired by her efforts.

He broke the Chakra concentration in his forehead, which caused the seal to fully revert into it's normal state, breaking all of the progress that Ryuuchou had managed to make. He stood up slowly, stretching his limbs and shaking the numbness from them before walking towards the lake.

Chakra flowed through to his foot and without any hesitation, the medic walked out onto the lake several feet, and took a seat by focusing his Chakra outward and down, supporting his body above the surface.

He took a meditation stance again, his legs crossed and his eyes closed, though he faced the direction he had just walked from. With his Chakra continuously flowing through him, he wouldn't need to concentrate as hard to call it to his forehead in order to break the seal. With everything flowing quickly through his body, he began again to picture the hands and the knot in his mind, symbolizing and representing his Chakra and the Infuin, respectively.

The hands were strong and worn, they had seen a great deal of use and practice. The knot was intricate and tightly woven around something -- a box. It was so strong that it held the weight completely on its own, with no help from any type of solid support. The hands covered the knot, and went to work, pulling at them softly so as not to damage the fabric that they were made of. The goal was to pull the knot apart, not tear it to shreds and small fibers.

The fingers wedged their ways under the loops of the knot, pulling portions apart and slowly making progress on the whole of the knot. His Chakra was acting against the Infuin seal, which formed something of a sealed away chamber in his Chakra Network -- it reserved a special place for compact and powerful Chakra, and as such, was not easy to penetrate.