Shootin' Range (Training)

[Thunder Over the Falls]

Currently Training: [9|10]
Charged Projectile

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Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Charges a metal throwing projectile with lightning adding lightning damage.
Special: ---
Drawback: Can only do enough to slightly numb and paralyze (Only for a quarter of a post), if the user tries to make it stronger, it will end up backfiring and paralyzing their hand. Can only charge up to 5 slots at once
Description: The user holds as many kunai/shuriken, or metal projectile for that matter, as they can, up to 5 slots in their hands, and charges them with electricity. Extra lightning damage is added which will slightly paralyze or numb. The projectiles will shock the opponent weakly even if they don't make contact, but at least come close to.
Limit: Lightning release.

Hiro held the knife proudly toward his mother with a smile. She examined it carefully and raised an eyebrow and shook her head. “It seems you miscalculated Hiroki” she told him. Hiroki blinked and watched it, and opened his mouth wide watching as his work started to flicker before the light flashed off. He shook his hand and tossed the knife over his shoulder. “Darn it!” he said, crossing his arms.

“Nothin to do but to try again!” he said smirking. He turned around and picked the knife up and flipped it around in his hand with an odd dexterity for an 11 year old to have. He focused on his chakra again, doing the same thing. The blade sparked and crackled, flickering with a soft light. He turned and threw it straight at one of the nearby arrow targets, hitting the bullseye straight on. Around the knife’s impact zone was slightly charred and smoking because of the electricity. Wouldn’t do much more than numb a human though.

[N A T S U M I]

+1; Learned.

[Thunder Over the Falls]

Currently Training: [0|20]
Raiton: Sakurai, 雷光: 丹色 木 雷光, (Lightning Style: Cherry Blossom Lightning)

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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.

”Good! The charge on that doesn’t hold long, so you have to use it before it flickers.” Hiroki’s mother explained only that much more of Charged Projectile before moving on to the next technique. “Now, given your love of weaponry I think you should have a technique that can give you a bit of a defense when your opponent decides to get close up. It’s done in stages though, and the first is a setup.” She smiled warmly and strung a few handseals together - as she finished sparks started to appear midair around her, gently floating in the sky. “The technique is called Sakurai - focus on the spark technique, make it outside of your body, and make many of them.”

Hiro watched in wonder as the bolts of electricity floated about the area. They disappeared as his mother cancelled the technique. He blinked a bit, trying to figure out what exactly it was he needed to do. “Okay the first part is just like the spark…” he performed that quickly just to be sure he remembered how, and then started focusing on the area right in front of his nose.

Chakra together…he caused it to collide to create a spark. Though, it was gone in a flicker. He had to figure out how to sustain it, and his mother (because she wanted him to actually think about it) would tell no more than she already had. He focused again, creating another spark. He huffed when that one went out. “What if…” he tried it again, but this time he created the spark but as the electric chakra bounced off of each other he started to swirl it, so that the electricity would keep it up and stay sparking for as long as he wanted it to.

He chained the handseals together to have better control over his chakra and for now just focused one by one on each individual spark he created. At about the fifth spark in, the first flickered out and this continued for each new created spark. He didn’t notice since he was so focused - but his mother was laughing quietly on the side. Hiro stopped and blinked, one by one each of the sparks fizzled out.

“Oh that’s not supposed to happen!” he grumbled, stomping his foot on the ground in frustration. After a moment’s break, he went back at it. Handseals then focus. He was getting better at making some of the sparks and keeping them, but he was only progressing one by one when the jutsu required hundreds of sparks to be effective. At this point, his count had only gone up to ten.

He kept creating more and more sparks as some of them fizzled out, though in his concentration he didn’t notice that some of them were coming close. Due to his lack of focus the ‘petals’ of electricity bumped into his skin as they fell there, giving him little shocks. He jumped at about the third one, jumping around and shaking his arms off.

“Ow ow ow!” he yelled in surprise, pouting since he wasn’t quite getting it yet.

[Thunder Over the Falls]

Currently Training: [??|20]
Raiton: Sakurai, 雷光: 丹色 木 雷光, (Lightning Style: Cherry Blossom Lightning)

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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.

Hiroki patted his arms off. It didn’t really hurt or burn, more like it was a huge surprise that it did that to him because he was so focused on a set of one or two of the petals. He grumbled under his breath but looked over and remembered his mom was right there…so he was silent. The young ninja shook his arms out once more and went to try again.

His hands moved through the handseals, but instead of going through them and immediately trying he paused and waited afterward. He went through the handseals several times before finally being comfortable enough. He strung them together and from him emanated a wave of raiton chakra, forming into tiny sparks that floated around him. He grinned big as he watched his work. “I did it!” he exclaimed, though he was a bit ahead of himself.

The sparks started to pop and crackle, shooting toward his skin again with the little zaps. “Eep!” he yelped, doing a little dance or something to try and avoid the shocks of chakra. He would start patting himself off; red marks ran up and down his arms and the parts of his legs that were exposed. “Okay that’s not fun…” he mumbled, looking down at the ground sheepishly. Each one didn’t bother much, but a bunch at once was not fun to get caught in - which just meant that when he finally figured it out, it would be an effective technique.

He took a deep breath in and went through it step by step again. He formed the handseals for the technique and started with one flickering blue spark in front of him. He started multiplying them. First two more appeared then four, then eight, etc. He stopped at about fifty total sparks and let the technique fade. “Okay that wasn’t so bad…” he muttered, happy enough that his arms and legs stayed unshocked that time.

“I guess more now.” He did it again. Each time he did, a bit more sweat seemed to appear on his forehead and arms since doing this repeatedly was starting to take its toll. This would likely the last thing on his training list for the day.

Hiroki’s hands moved through the handseals carefully and almost all at once, sparks started to appear. At first they were a bit close, which made him worry (he had been shocked enough today for his own liking). Those sparks branched off into more sparks until the area around him was flickering like a starry night. Each spark moved like a petal on the wind, yet was nearly stationary in its midair course. The shocky petals floated around him and Hiroki turned, looking at his handiwork.

He moved his hand through the air, watching the lightning petals flow around him like they were suspended within water and his hand was moving it. Some of the petals followed his hand. “Mom I see why it’s called Sakurai now. It’s like when the cherry blossoms bloom.” He had a large smile plastered on his face as he marveled at the technique.

[Draven]

+20 -learned-

[Thunder Over the Falls]

Currently Training: [0|5] [E-Rank]
Scroll Whip

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Rank: E, D, C, B
Skill: Ninjutsu.
Effect: Allows the user to throw weapons from his weapon scroll without the need of thouching it.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: The weapons threw lack of power and speed which makes the weapons threw E Ranked instead of D, however this doesn't mean a kunai in the throat would be less lethal.
Description: The user performs a series of handseals and then injects chakra on the weapon scroll which completely covers it with it activating the seals on it without releasing them. From now on when the user quickly moves the weapon scroll as a whip it will throw a kunai from the farthest edge from the user. The weapon scroll is moved quickly as if it would be a whip however this doesn't mean the user can use the weapon scroll as a whip or that any hit delivered by the weapon scroll would hurt, after all it is just paper, what it does it that a weapon will be released from it by the moment the movement ends, impulsed by the user strength used on that movement. Once done this technique on one weapon scroll the user doesn't have to use it once again for the same weapon scroll, this technique will last as long as the user desires for one scroll, if the user wants to use this technique for another weapon scroll the user will have to do it once again for the new weapon scroll. The E Ranked allows the user to throw weapons as big as a Shuriken. The D Ranked allows the user to throw weapons as big as a Kunai. The C Ranked allows the user to throw any type of secondary weapon sealed inside that weapon scroll. The B Ranked allows the user to throw a Main Weapon out of the weapon scroll.
Limit: Must be a Weapon Specialist. Only works with D or C Ranked Scrolls. Must know Heiki Chouin (Weapons Sealing).

”Alright Hiroki, we’re done with Raiton training for the day.” The sun was setting in the sky and Hiro hadn’t eaten all day. His mother went inside to cook for dinner and looked back, waiting for him. He looked at her. “I’ll be right in mom, there’s somethin’ I want to see if I can do!” He smiled, pulling the smaller of his weapon scrolls from his bag. He unfurled it slightly and swung it around, letting the paper be like a ribbon. The scroll unfurled halfway and Hiroki grasped it by the part that was still rolled.

“Okay…” he held the scroll in his hands, performing the seals for heiki chouin but didn’t seal anything inside of the scroll. Instead, he was letting his chakra flow through it. “I think this’ll work…cause it just needs the release now.” He spun the scroll like ribbon again and tested how quickly it could snap. The paper made the ‘crack’ sound in the air and Hiro smiled.

He walked over toward one of his targets and in a quick motion with a snap of his hand the paper of the scroll moved forward through the air. It cracked like a whip, and at the peak of the crack from a puff of smoke shot a single shuriken from the scroll and into the edge of the target. He blinked, looking up into the sky while rubbing the back of his head.

“I gotta work on my aim for that one…”

He snapped the paper forward again, this time with another puff of smoke and a shuriken at the target. This was definitely a trick he’d be able to use. Each time, he focused on releasing one of the shuriken from its ‘container’ within the scroll, and lo and behold…snap, poof, weapon.

[Draven]

+5 -learned-

[Thunder Over the Falls]

Currently Training: [0|20]
Raiton: Sakurai Uzu, 雷光: 丹色 木 雷光 渦, (Lightning Style: Cherry Blossom Lightning Swirl)

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Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user forms a shield out of lightning petals.
Special: “Hand Seals”
Drawback: Raiton: Sakurai must be active.
Description: The user forms the hand seals, focusing their chakra into the Sakurai petals around them. Releasing the lightning chakra, the user sends the petals spinning in tornado around their body, shielding them from sight and defending them by exuding equal and opposite force to the attack, negating it. The shield can withstand two C rank or lower strikes before being disrupted by further attack. Anyone coming into contact with the swirling Sakurai petals will find themselves suffering a mild shock akin to a severe first-degree burn. Tangible elements without strong electromagnetic fields (Doton and Mokuton) pass through this without difficulty.
Limit: Must have Raiton. Must know Raiton: Sakurai.

The rest of the day passed. Hiroki went inside to eat with his mother, and eventually as the moon was rising to its peak fell asleep. He was awakened in the morning by a bunch of tiny shocks. His mother stood at his bedroom door with a smile on her face, while the ‘petals’ from Sakurai floated about the room, and every now and then one landed on the boy. He woke up slowly and tried to sit up which only meant that he was zapped by quite a bit of them. “What the!” he wondered, looking around. “Mom!” he whined, trying to avoid being hit by the remaining petals.

The woman laughed heartily and walked out the door, cancelling the technique. “It’s time for you to be learning how to control those petals, Hiroki.” Her voice was calm yet somehow commanding. Hiroki nodded, dressed, and headed outside to continue his training. Once there he looked at his mother and waited. “After Sakurai is in place, the petals will respond and move to your chakra - since that’s what they are. Do some experimenting and figure out some of the things that you can do with them.

The boy nodded and strung the handseals together for Sakurai. The blue-white ‘petals’ sparked into existence around him, floating gently within 3 meters of the boy. He thought for a moment and decided a shield would be the best option for now. No one would be able to get through without getting zapped…at least that was the intention.

He focused on only one of the sparks for now. They sustained fine but perhaps taking control of them would be the difficult part. Hiro stared at one of them in particular and with his mind told it to move. The petal hovered there for a moment before disappearing with a ‘pop.’ “Aw…” he grumbled, turning to face another of the petals. He tried the same thing, using his mind to control it. This petal fizzled out as well. Hiro’s mother looked on with a curious expression, wondering what in the world her son was attempting to do.

“Come on!” he grumbled at the petal, like he expected it to talk back or at least respond. He seemed to do that with a lot of things, maybe it helped him focus? He kept staring at some of the petals, but as he focused way too hard and in definitely the wrong way each petal would just pop out of existence. It took him probably about ten minutes of this before realizing what it was that he was doing incorrectly. “Oh…maybe I should try to control it like chakra instead of with my mind…” he muttered sheepishly. His mother facepalmed off on the side of the training area.

“Okay…so…” he looked at his mother and then around at the petals. Moving through a quick succession of handseals similar to the sakurai activation ones, he extended his personal chakra ‘area’ out to encompass all of the petals. He attempted to will one of them now, and as he used the handseals the bolts of lightning that were made from his chakra started to dance about and respond to his commands.

[Thunder Over the Falls]

Currently Training: [??|20]
Raiton: Sakurai Uzu, 雷光: 丹色 木 雷光 渦, (Lightning Style: Cherry Blossom Lightning Swirl)

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Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user forms a shield out of lightning petals.
Special: “Hand Seals”
Drawback: Raiton: Sakurai must be active.
Description: The user forms the hand seals, focusing their chakra into the Sakurai petals around them. Releasing the lightning chakra, the user sends the petals spinning in tornado around their body, shielding them from sight and defending them by exuding equal and opposite force to the attack, negating it. The shield can withstand two C rank or lower strikes before being disrupted by further attack. Anyone coming into contact with the swirling Sakurai petals will find themselves suffering a mild shock akin to a severe first-degree burn. Tangible elements without strong electromagnetic fields (Doton and Mokuton) pass through this without difficulty.
Limit: Must have Raiton. Must know Raiton: Sakurai.

”Yay!” he jumped up and down when he saw that they were responding, though his movement at the moment caused him to inadvertently command about ten of the spark petals to float right onto his arm. They shocked him all at once and he jumped, placing his left hand on his right where there was a bright red patch of skin. “Ow…” he whined, glaring at his own technique. “Not supposed to shock me…”

He shook his head, looking back around at his surroundings. “Okay!” He ran through the handseals again, and started to think about what to do with the petals. At first he caused the mass of the petals in front of him to move away, but all at once and in the form of what looked to be a wall. He grinned, watching them move. Then he only glanced behind him, and made those petals move up and down, dancing through the air.

“This is a fun technique…” he muttered. He had completely forgotten that his mother was there. In fact he was like a kid in a candy store or one who had just gotten a new toy. He kept looking straight ahead and worked to move the petals in unique directions. With a little bit of straining and a bit of extra chakra he managed to spell out his last name in the sparking petals in front of him.

This got a childish giggle from him while he kept going. He stopped and suddenly got serious. “Okay shield.” He was using the fun as a way to get better control over the petals. He cancelled the whole Sakurai technique, which meant that the air around him no longer sparked with chakra electricity.

Hiro’s hands carefully formed the handseals to activate sakurai. The petals burst into the air around him, each flickering slightly before floating there in the mass of hundreds. He strung together the next set of handseals and moved the petals into a spinning cylinder of electricity around him. He watched in wonder, he could barely see out of his ‘eye of the storm’ but that also meant that no one would be able to see in. Faster and faster he kept it spinning, and indeed it formed a sort of shield around him - now hopefully he would be able to keep it from moving in closer…that would be one painful shock.

[Draven]

+20 -learned-

[Thunder Over the Falls]

Currently Training: [00|20]
Raiton: Sakurai Ken, 雷光: 丹色 木 雷光 刀, (Lighting Style: Cherry Blossom Lightning Sword)

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Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user forms weapons out of Sakurai petals.
Special: “Hand Seals”
Drawback: Raiton: Sakurai must be active.
Description: The user forms the hand seal, focusing their chakra into the Sakurai petals around them. They then mold the lightning chakra, gathering the Sakurai petals into the shape of a sword and containing them with chakra. Using this technique, the user may form one weapon of katana size of smaller, or five weapons of kunai size or smaller. These weapons are built of the lightning that the Sakurai are composed of, and are capable of giving out shocks akin to second-degree burns. They are incapable of blocking like normal weapons. The weapons last until the user chooses to dispel them, or a round after they lose contact with the user.
Limit: Must have Raiton. Must know Raiton: Sakurai.

Hiroki grinned as the petals slowed and all at once, disappeared. He looked over to his mother and she nodded, giving her approval of his progress with the lightning release. The boy grinned, though all of the sudden yawned and walked inside, almost immediately falling asleep.

[Several days later]

He had held off on practicing much of his lightning techniques lately, since after all he had some shopping to do, met with and made a team, and bought some stuff. Though, most of that had been left inside. Today was another day for Sakurai training, he had thought of plenty of other things to try with it - the first of those being his passion.

Hiroki ran through the series of handseals for Sakurai quickly and like clockwork, the petals of electricity flickered into life from the boy’s chakra and started to float and swirl. At first, he had no intention of forming anything. Sure, he could make a wall of them swirl around him quickly like a shield, but what he had in mind was much different and much more detailed.

At first, he lifted his left hand, directing the whole of the petals to start to move. He moved them left, extending to the very limits of his three meter range. The boy spun around, and as a challenge for himself he willed the white blue petals to spin the opposite direction - while he moved clockwise, the petals spun lazily counterclockwise. He came to a stop, as did the petals. Happy with at the moment that much, he nodded confidently to himself.

After that exercise came one of a similar nature. He started doing squats for two reasons. The first for use as a decent workout, the second reason being for more practice over the petal control. When he ducked down, the petals moved quickly to the top of his range. When he rose and stood, the petals created a ring around him with a radius of three meters. He stood tall again and now created a loose dome around him.

He basically cut the dome in half horizontally. The top of it started to rotate in one direction, while the bottom was starting to rotate opposite. Though, the drawback to this training was that it was making him dizzy. Hiroki stopped and cancelled the sakurai technique for now so he could sit down and regain his footing. ”Whoa…that’s fun but my head…”

After a few minutes he stood and looked down to his hands. He ran through the seals for sakurai and the petals appeared once again. He was satisfied at this point for his progress. Those exercises were things he did to work on controlling the petals as a whole but separately as well. He focused, and the petals started to move toward his hands. His mind was set on making these into some sort of kunai or throwing knife or something, since that was his specialty.

[Thunder Over the Falls]

Currently Training: [??|20]
Raiton: Sakurai Ken, 雷光: 丹色 木 雷光 刀, (Lighting Style: Cherry Blossom Lightning Sword)

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Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user forms weapons out of Sakurai petals.
Special: “Hand Seals”
Drawback: Raiton: Sakurai must be active.
Description: The user forms the hand seal, focusing their chakra into the Sakurai petals around them. They then mold the lightning chakra, gathering the Sakurai petals into the shape of a sword and containing them with chakra. Using this technique, the user may form one weapon of katana size of smaller, or five weapons of kunai size or smaller. These weapons are built of the lightning that the Sakurai are composed of, and are capable of giving out shocks akin to second-degree burns. They are incapable of blocking like normal weapons. The weapons last until the user chooses to dispel them, or a round after they lose contact with the user.
Limit: Must have Raiton. Must know Raiton: Sakurai.

Forming the knives was easily enough. They formed above his hands though as soon as he went to grab onto them they disappeared, shocking his hands as they left a few black scorch marks on his skin. ”Yeowch!” he cried, shaking his hands off. ”Stupid electricity!” He looked down at his hands and winced slightly, testing them first to see if he could even bend them. He could, but it hurt.

He cancelled sakurai, and then slowly went back through the handseals to activate it once again. Hiro was definitely going to need to do something else for a while after this. ”Okay, that hurt…” he mumbled. With the petals around him once more he formed handseals to direct chakra again. This time he focused the petals into only one knife sized blade - better to get used to it that way and then expand.

As the petals started to focus in above his hand, he cringed. He could feel the crackle of the electricity. He was slightly afraid of it but something came to mind that his mother had told him about the sakurai technique. The petals and this electricity are my chakra he thought. With newfound determination he kept forming the knife out of petals. At first, it was loosely formed and crackling and ever so slowly he started to compress it.

After about a minutes worth of work the knife didn’t seem so formless in the loose shape anymore. It looked solid, glowing white blue. Hesitantly, he gripped it in his hand and instead of letting it shock him, any electricity from it was circulated into chakra through his hand and then back into the blade. “Alright!” he exclaimed, jumping up and down for a moment. In his excitement he let go, and it fizzled out.

Determined now more than ever, he ran through the handseals again. The petals collected above his hand but he had one down - five knives started to form, fanned out as he grabbed onto them. With this newfound confidence that he could in fact do this, the blades solidified and kept form much quicker than before. Hiro turned toward one of his archery targets and threw the blades toward it with an uncanny accuracy for an eleven year old. Though, the blades fizzled out as soon as they hit fifteen meters from Hiro. He blinked and laughed it off.

[Umehara]

+9
+8

[Thunder Over the Falls]

Currently Training: [17|20]
Raiton: Sakurai Ken, 雷光: 丹色 木 雷光 刀, (Lighting Style: Cherry Blossom Lightning Sword)

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Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user forms weapons out of Sakurai petals.
Special: “Hand Seals”
Drawback: Raiton: Sakurai must be active.
Description: The user forms the hand seal, focusing their chakra into the Sakurai petals around them. They then mold the lightning chakra, gathering the Sakurai petals into the shape of a sword and containing them with chakra. Using this technique, the user may form one weapon of katana size of smaller, or five weapons of kunai size or smaller. These weapons are built of the lightning that the Sakurai are composed of, and are capable of giving out shocks akin to second-degree burns. They are incapable of blocking like normal weapons. The weapons last until the user chooses to dispel them, or a round after they lose contact with the user.
Limit: Must have Raiton. Must know Raiton: Sakurai.

After his moment of laughing that range issue off, Hiroki adjusted his position to move closer to the circle targets. He put just under fifteen meters between himself and the target. While he moved, he cancelled sakurai, but as he was ready to keep going he activated it again with that practiced string of handseals. With a second string of handseals together, the lightning petals gathered in his hand.

They formed five solid blue white glowing blades again. Hiro moved his hand up in front of his face, examining his craftsmanship out of the lightning petals. They looked almost exactly like the knives stored inside his weapon scrolls, except that they were made out of lightning. He took a step forward and let the weapons fly into the target, aiming of course at the bullseye. He grinned as each blade hit and vanished after the hit in a clump near the center of the target.

”I wonder…” Hiro muttered, performing the handseals again. This time, instead of throwing knifes Hiro held his hands out in front of him. Floating and forming out of the petals was a katana, created out of the same electric chakra of the rest of the petals. He reached out and had to refigure his movements. He did the same thing for the knives, letting the chakra flow through his hands like a solid current, but this time he was using both hands.

The boy stepped forward, confident in this technique and swung at the target. He sliced horizontally across it, leaving a dark black scorch mark where his blade had made contact with the wood.

[Umehara]

Learned.

[Thunder Over the Falls]

Currently Training: [00|20]
Shot on the Run

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Rank: "C"
Skill: TaiJutsu/Supplementary
Effect: User becomes more proficient with the weapon in where they are able to shoot proficiently within the range of 2/3rd of their total range.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Normally an Marksman is only able to shoot within the range of half of their proficiency while on the move. This technique increases the range up to 2/3rd of the total proficient range. So a user is able to shoot within 20 meters instead of 15 meters if they are proficient at 30 meters.
Limit: Must be a Marksman. Must know Precise Shot.

He grinned, glad he’d found a way to use that technique in a way that definitely suited him. He looked down at his hands and grumbled, they were still somewhat blackened by his earlier tests. ”Done with that now…” He turned and darted inside, grabbing two things. The first was his bow from its sealed place in one of the scrolls. He also grabbed his quiver and clipped it onto his belt before running back outside. ”Time to make dad proud!” he exclaimed, thinking about all the lessons that his father had taught him about hunting before he passed.

The boy ran back outside though as he ran he pulled one of the blunt point arrows from the quiver. He ran around his target, nocking the arrow to the bow before letting it fly toward his target. Normally, he was pretty damn accurate but with this, he found that his shot didn’t even touch the target. He came to a stop, blinking. He walked up to where his arrow landed and picked it up to put back into the quiver. It must have been the distance and movement that put his shot so off target.

Hiro thought about it and took a few minutes to clear out the area, putting only an vertically standing log in the center of his clearing. This way he’d be able to hit it from any angle. At least, that was the plan. He moved back to five meters and drew an arrow, nocked it, and fired. The arrow hit straight on in the center of the tree. His aim was good, at least at this distance.

He tested that every five meters until he hit thirty. His aim was spot on - when the wind started to blow he would just adjust his firing angle and hit the tree anyway. Math was his strongest point in typical academics - and firing a bow was mostly just math. He switched now to moving about while he fired. He tried from about thirty meters, shooting toward the log. Not surprisingly, he missed.

The young archer decided to figure out where his problem would stop, so he took to running in a circle around the log, though he started to get closer to the log. Running in this spiral, his first shot was fired from 25m. Long miss. He waited till he was slightly closer, about 20m, and his arrow hit the side of the log, reflecting off to the side. He stopped momentarily and made a line in the dirt to represent this. Hiro resumed his spiral, and when he hit fifteen meters, he realized that even while running that was where his aim went back to normal, even running. He marked that as well with a line in the dirt and went to start measuring where those lines were.

[Umehara]

A bit repetitive, but acceptable.

+10

[Thunder Over the Falls]

Currently Training: [10|20]
Shot on the Run

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Rank: "C"
Skill: TaiJutsu/Supplementary
Effect: User becomes more proficient with the weapon in where they are able to shoot proficiently within the range of 2/3rd of their total range.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Normally an Marksman is only able to shoot within the range of half of their proficiency while on the move. This technique increases the range up to 2/3rd of the total proficient range. So a user is able to shoot within 20 meters instead of 15 meters if they are proficient at 30 meters.
Limit: Must be a Marksman. Must know Precise Shot.

”Alright, the closer line is where my aim is good...” Hiro spoke out loud, holding his bow at his side while he examined the lines. He started repeating his movements again, though this time he ended up running within that circle around the log between fifteen and twenty meters. This time he fired about five different arrows at the log, each getting a bit more accurate though it wasn’t quite satisfactory in the young genin’s eyes.

It took a few more tries with such simple training when Hiro had gotten just plain bored with it. He picked up all of his arrows that had now been shot various distances around the backyard training area. When the arrows were comfortably back in their place in his quiver, Hiroki walked over to the door of his house and peeked his head in the door. ”Mom! How are we on food?!” The question was simple, though he got a response of “We’re low” back from his mother.

”Okay I’m going out to hunt then!” He turned on his heel and ran straight into the forest. Normally, he’d just climb up into a tree and wait for something to come by, but he wanted to better train his moving shot in a way that actually mattered. He placed the bow around his torso and jumped up at a tree to grab a branch with both hands. Nimbly, he swung up and onto the limb, crouching to regain his balance before moving through the trees to find some decent prey.

It took him a good hour before he even started to see or hear anything that resembled something that would be good for food. He wanted to find a deer, that would definitely feed him and his mother for a good while depending on the size. The boy paused on a limb, looking about for anything that seemed like it would be good to eat. He spotted a rabbit about 18 meters through some of the trees. It wouldn’t hurt anything to try and get it, so instead of darting through trees after it he hooked his legs around the limb of the tree and hung upside down, adjusting his bow and arrow so compensate for being topsy-turvy.

He drew the arrow back, aiming carefully. Being in such an awkward position was not easy to shoot from. Hiro let go, and the arrow flew true, though it seemed his aim was off from this far as well. Had he been a little closer, it wouldn’t have been a miss. The arrow hit the ground right next to the rabbit, scaring the poor creature off. It bounded away as fast as its little rabbit feet could carry it.

”Darn it...” he mumbled, as he dropped down from the tree to go and pick up his arrow. He looked around for any paths any large game animal would have left. Seeing nothing, he placed the arrow in his quiver and vaulted up into the trees once more. He took off, jumping from limb to limb through the trees while keeping his eyes peeled for a deer or something.

After about another three hours, he’d seen plenty of rabbits but as of right now he’d given up on small game. He wanted something substantial to take home. He came to a stop, looking out over a small clearing while still up in the trees. In the clearing, he spotted a family of deer. A grin crossed his face as he drew one of the hunting arrows from his quiver. He nocked it, and aimed for the doe. The arrow buried itself in the doe’s back left leg, causing the animal to freak. The other deer scattered, but the dow was having difficulty running due to how the arrows were made.

Hiroki jumped out of the tree, nocking another of the arrows as he moved. He ran toward the fleeing deer and without stopping, fired two more times. The first arrow missed the mark, but the second hit the deer in the neck. Apparently, his aim was improving each time he adjusted the math to his shots. The deer started to stumble, but still attempted to run. Each time the animal tripped gave Hiroki a chance to keep himself within shooting distance. He pulled one more arrow out, nocked it, and let it fly while he was just under twenty meters away. Hopefully this would do it - spending time out here was making him hungry. The arrow flew cleanly through the air, burying itself near the other arrow in the creature’s neck.

The animal kept running, but was losing blood quickly. Hiro could follow it no problem. Eventually, the doe collapsed. The boy moved up to it, and put himself in a place so that he could effectively end the deer’s suffering. Good that the arrows were sharp. He looked around, trying to figure out where he was in accordance to his house. It took a moment to find his bearings, but he had been hunting in these forests with his father for a few years before the man died, so he knew them. He grabbed his kill by the hind legs and started to drag the deer through the forest back toward his house. He made sure to pass through the clearing to pick up his arrow that had missed before returning home.

[Exit]

[As a note, the upside down shot could work as well to train this since acrobatic shot range goes by shot on the run range]

[Umehara]

+10. I dig it.

[Thunder Over the Falls]

Currently Training [0|20]
Raiton: Sakurai Ran, 雷光: 丹色 木 雷光 ラン, (Lightning Style: Cherry Blossom Lightning Run)

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Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates paralyzing shots out of the Sakurai petals.
Special: “Hand Seals”
Drawback: Raiton: Sakurai must be active.
Description: The user forms the hand seals, focusing their chakra into the Sakurai petals around them. The user then releases the lightning chakra into the Sakurai petals, suspending them in the air in front of them. The user then catapults about ten petals forward with incredible speed, about that of a senbon. When impacting a target, these petals each cause shocking and paralysis that results in paralysis in the immediate afflicted area for two rounds.
Limit: Must have Raiton. Must know Raiton: Sakurai.

[Enter]

Hiro woke that morning ready to train. He had a powerful technique in his arsenal now thanks to his cousin, but how things were he would only be able to use it maybe twice with his experience now. He had to get stronger, and there was no better way to do that than train. The boy dressed, his mother had just bought him new clothing. It was still his typical wear, shorts and a no-sleeve shirt with his longer than normal sandals. He finished with putting his headband around his head and grinned. No breakfast for him today, he wanted to get right on it.

He passed his mother on the way out the door and waved to her to get only a nod in return. She knew that the boy was going to be training hard as well. Hiroki made his way to the backyard, and looked around. He hadn’t trained here in a while but everything was still pretty much the same. Targets littered the area that had been cleared out of the forest.

”Time to get started! Raiton, Sakurai!” He didn’t waste any time and his hands flew through the seals for the Sakurai technique that had by now become the base for several of his skills. Almost at once hundreds of small, blue, petal shaped bolts of lightning appeared in the air within the first few meters around Hiroki. Alright, so I can make weapons from them and move them all at once. Maybe a different type of weapon now…

Hiro’s head was running through the other potential options for something else to do with the Sakurai technique. He had knives and even a katana with it as well as a shield. Maybe…senbon? He smiled as his hands sped through more handseals for one of the second parts of the sakurai skill. He was using the handseals to carefully focus chakra into small groups of the sparking petals. His control and maneuvering of them on a grander scale was spot on. What he didn’t quite have yet was moving a large number and a small number simultaneously.

With his chakra forced into the petals he started to concentrate, pulling the mass of lightning as a whole to spin and rotate slowly around him. He turned around within the cloud of electricity, marveling at the brightness even in the morning sunlight. Amazing… His concentration didn’t waver, keeping the petals moving at a slow pace. He practiced what he had before once again.

The petals stopped for a moment before resuming their movement. The top half of them slowly started to spin clockwise, while the petals that could be considered the lower half spun counter-clockwise around him. In this way, Hiro could better grasp control of the petals. He kept this up for a good five minutes and took it a step further, complicating it for himself. He split the petals again now into four sections. The first and third created rings that spun clockwise, whereas the second and fourth spun counter-clockwise.