Snow White Waterfalls! .::Quest::.

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Taki no Kuni could be mistaken for Yuki no Kuni considering how much of the land was covered in snow. During the winter time the Land of the Waterfall was an area in which is snowed more than in most others. The frozen rain did look pretty but it dropped the temperature dramatically, making anyone shiver in their boots if they were to travel without something warm and fluffy. The snow would still fall to this moment, obscuring the vision of many. This would of course become a nuisance very quickly. Especially after stepping outside of the gates of Takigakure. If any traveler would choose to leave the warmth and safety of the walls of the grand village, while walking down the main road towards the border to reach its neighbor, a small path diverted from the main road can be spotted covered in snow. It leads into the white woods, open for any curious mind to explore.

[Ancestor Febrie]

The Duchess looked up the sky, the weather was getting warmer due to snow. It is always warmer when it snows than when northern wind hits. She was dressed lightly considering everything around her was white, but it would not come as surprising since her lineage can be traced to a clan of ice users, the Kaishin. She strode in her usual outfit, dark blue kimono with golden laces and her sash that bounds the the kimono is glossy silver. She wears a white cloak over her left shoulder with Japanese symbols for Duchess.

Chiaki's tessen sheath with the fan is always oh her back over her right shoulder. The Kaishin has many utility pouches strapped around her body and kimono containing mostly 198 kunai marked with the hiraishin seal and 10 of which also contain an explosive tags. She also has other weapons inside those pouches which would be 10 more exploding tags, 5 smoke grenades and 5 hikari bombs. Her dark blue tactical vest has only 19 senbon in it placed in a place easily reachable by both of her hands and 1 senbon was between her teeth used as a toothpick. Inside one of her pockets she had 10 decks of paper pieces all marked with the hiraishin seal with each deck containing 100 pieces of normal paper.

Basically she was packed with all those weapons, someone could call her a walking armory although her Will of Kratos knowledge helps her keep so much on her without hindering her speed at all. To top it all, the duchess liked to travel with her favorite technique active, High Pressure Air Cube maintaining a count of 100 active cubes at a time to be manipulated at will. Those cubes floats around her body at a relatively close proximity adding the effect of wind blowing at the lady, anyone looking at her would hiss from just thinking about how cold it must be for her.

A few snowflakes fell on her soft skin without notice the lady strode towards what looked like a side path leading to white woods, it was all very interesting and would make a perfect detour. The duchess skipped passed a few trees diving deep into the white forest not knowing what awaited her.

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100 air cubes active

Fuuton: High Pressure Air Cube - (9x trained = 200 TP) [Range: 45m, Cubes: 100]
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates high pressure air cubes.
Special: “Hand Seals”
Drawback: Doesn’t do anything on its own. Can be seen by some doujutsu (sharingan, byakugan ect).
Description: The user performs hand seals to make ten invisible high pressure air cubes in a five meter radius around the user. The technique can be activated unlimited times in a battle. The cubes are 1x1 meters and floats around the user’s body making him/her clothes, hair ect. move (looks cool). The cubes are always moving around the user and do not need constant chakra channeling to it, it’s one time technique. The cubes last until they are depleted by a technique or the user dispels them. The user can control the cubes in a twenty meter radius around them and can make a total of ten cubes when first learnt. Additional C rank training adds five meters to the control that can be trained up to forty five meters and adds ten cubes that can be trained up to one-hundred.
Limit: Must have Fuuton. Must have at least 250 TP in Fuuton.

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After taking a few steps into the forest, the duchess would notice the light slowly fading into darkness. Until there was just enough light to just barely see five feet ahead. A stranger thing was happening thought, the deeper into the forest the woman proceeded the more ferocious the wind would become. As if trying to force the red headed woman to turn back and return to wherever she came from. But if she decided to do that, another problem would occur. It seemed that the forest had grown behind her. Completely covering the path with more shrubbery and trees. The only way for her to proceed was forwards at this moment in time, which would prove to be difficult. Several seconds after walking against the howling wind. A faint tune would pass through the ears of the duchess.

[Ancestor Febrie]

She advanced on much deeper into the white forrest than she originally wanted to, there was some mysterious aura dragging her inside and not letting any thoughts of escape. As went inside the lights and visibility were very much thinning, from there on she was more careful. With each step, she examined her surroundings as it appears to be constantly in motion. The mind perceived the shifts around her, those trees were perhaps alive or something since they kept rearranging themselves to the point that she couldn't even turn back if she wanted to.

Ferocious wind was constantly hitting at her soft skin, it was pushing her back, it tried but to no avail, she was unmoving. Of course if she really wanted to turn back she would without hesitation level those trees, it was just as easy as breathing but this was getting interesting. The duchess continued to press on despite the wind and the cold, she arrived at a tree that looked very old, next to it was a fallen tree chopped to big pieces. The woman thought a woodcutter did this, the whole sight gave her an idea; since wood was already cut like this into logs, why not take a few to make a big bonfire later.

She did not carry any rope with her that she could have used and so improvising was the only thing she could do at this moment, she gathered fallen branches branded them together to make a rope then tied one end to three logs and the other end around her waist. With her strength, it was nothing to drag these things, the snow also helped with the flow.

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The wind would die down a bit as the woman stopped to grab some wood with her for some peculiar reason. But as soon as she started walking forward, the began to to push her back even harder than before. After a few steps, a tiny bright light can be seen through the darkness of the forest, this defiantly seemed to be the only way out at the moment. As the duchess got closer and closer to this light, she would be able to hear a musical tune played on a flute or tin whistle. It was a high pitched instrument, that could be easily told. With every step that she would force her body to move forward, the music would begin to get slightly louder. Making the female feel tired, as if whoever was hiding behind the forest was trying to make her fall asleep.

[Ancestor Febrie]

The logs gave her more weight which was a very good thing against this strong of a wind, it made her less likely to be swept away and at the worst it could help her get back on her feet. The more she ventured into the depths the more she wondered how could this be possible, she has never heard about anything like this happening before even from the old books. The Duchess wanted to find more and more about this mystery that she would try and ignore the loud music played on a flute or a thin instrument, or it could just be her imagination?

With each step she grew more tired, it was time for a nap she thought but subconsciously she knew it wasn't natural at this point. She did not want to risk falling into the enemy hands and so she focused her soul to give it a property making anyone that looks at her friendly, they will think she is their kindred. After this technique she was really tired, it could easily mean falling to sleep soon. Her weapons still in place where she first had them minus one kunai that has just been detached from one of her pouches fell on the ground where it stabbed the ground staying that way without her knowledge.

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Soul Disguise
Rank: "S"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User can make others think they are one of their own. It is as if they are a different person walking around and no one knows that it is them.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This technique only works on the user. The duration of this technique is 6 minutes for every class level. The user can cast this technique and when people see them they see a reflection of their own soul. This makes them think that the user is of the same race, bloodlimit (if it's a bloodlimit) and alignment as they are.
Limit: Must be a Soulcaster.

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To the tones of your soul..[/color]

Sweet music, like the lullabies of ones childhood. Peacefulness, the voices of friends from forgotten times, calling out to her, whispering her name as their soft laughter caressed her eardrums like cotton, while the raging wind was tearing at her cloth and flesh. From the sky above, the blizzard was turning into rain. The raindrops were starting to fall, as the sound of children jumping into small ponds with their boots whispered. The undercooled rain was freezing to ice on whichever surface it hit; Including the Duchess hair and cloth. Every gentle impact would feel like increased weights upon her shoulders, gently suggesting her to sit down and relax.

...As she got closer to the light, it would appear as the flickering of a candle-light in the window of a wooden house. A few tracks were apparent in the snow, leading around the house; Likely to the entrance. Tired and exhausted, would the Duchess be able to make it all the way..? Would she even want to enter the house?...

The dulling sense of losing conciousness crept over her as a blanket. Feeling warm, even in what she knew was a terrible cold, one could only wonder how much longer she would last. One thing was certain though. The sound was not coming from the cabin. If she wished to find the source, she'd have to press on into the darkness, and risk everything on tracking down whatever was playing these tunes.

[Ancestor Febrie]

{Hiraishins out}