The perfect Melody x2

[The Roar of the Falls]

Name: "Shougeki Chitai" (Crash Zone)
Rank: C, B, A-ranked
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Amplifies all sound within a given area.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: Harmful to all users. Techniques which destroy/remove/eat chakra, which will reduce/negate the effectiveness of the technique as a whole. Cannot be paired with other sound based techniques that further amplify sound. This technique does not allow itself to further amplify sound created by the technique itself.
Description: The user is capable of lacing an area with chakra that enhances any sound produced from the said area. Chakra covers the area with in a thin, invisible layer, which reacts to the creation of any sound mono-directionally. When first learned, an area 20 cubic meters large, and increases decibel range by 0.75 times. Light walking sounds like marching, and whispers sound like a loud conversation. For every time the user relearns this technique, the strength of this technique double; for a maximum decibel range increase by 3 times, with a range of 80 meters. The B-ranked version becomes harmful, and causes slight confusion, headaches and earaches for all of those caught within. The A-ranked version is far worse, and will induce vomiting, vertigo and a splitting headache/earache for as long as anyone caught within.

This technique lasts for 3 turns, plus 2 additional turns if the user has mastered the sound release. If the user is a Ninjutsu Specialists, they net 1 additional turn with this technique, and 2 if they are a Ninjutsu Master. The user of course does not have to be within the same vicinity as this technique, which makes also makes it useful as a sound based trap, or early warning system. The user usually starts at the center of this technique, but may command the technique of have up to a 18 second (3 post) delay parameter so that they may safely leave the vicinity. This parameter does not take away from the above times.
Limit: Ototon release.

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Isabella found herself back where she and Kaoru had first taken up a mission, the dark, dirty, grungy part of Takigakure. It was riddled with darkness and shadows, and though she would hear them coming a long ways back, she took precaution. A few handseals had her concentrating of emitting large sound wave from the center of her core, the main heavy flow of her chakra system. As each tone rippled out of her body, they coated the area with thick amounts of chakra.

The area would seem to shimmer to anyone with dojutsu that saw chakra nature, or special lenses. The sound waves reverberating off one another causing intense fields of enhanced sound waves that would amplify greatly times their normal decibel range. As yet another wave of sound left her body it sunk further into the surrounding, filling every crack, nook and cranny and bouncing off one another as they took on a singular task of only amplifying sound waves. This second wave settled out the first, a smooth transition as she listened hard for any progress.

The third wave was already on its way, each wave only fractions of seconds apart. Her mastery of sound allowed her to pick up and ultimately experience every waking second of this beautiful event. a cough from some one nearby sounded like a loud yell, and the blunt pounding of the sound hitting her ears made hr shriek in pain. What she failed to understand was the tech amplified everything within twenty meters of her, including her own techs or normally made sound waves. Her shriek was amplified and sounded like a freight train in close vicinity.

The roaring in her ears intensified during the third wave of chakra enhanced sound. It only intensifying the already horrible sound waves hitting her over and over. Weak from the headache she was getting she managed a few struggling seals and put up a sound barrier block in her ears and immediately she had relief. Though she couldnt hear, the sound waves still carried and impact, and the footsteps, whispering and coughing all felt like small jabs at her ears, though the bounced harmlessly off her sound barrier.

As she smiled at the progress, she felt rather than heard approaching footsteps and turned to face them immediately, her eyes fighting to focus in the darkness as the technique carried the sound waves to frightening intensity. She wasnt scared, but was rather...alert. Another step felt like a small impact to her ear, the noiseless moment giving her a feeling of disconnection with reality. She called out into the void and the technique would amplify her voice easily. "Show yourself!" She yelled and the hanging sound tech bounced it around repeatedly until it sounded like a scream.

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[Proof]

So... here I was again.

The grimy section of Takigakure; a lowly cluster of estates that could more accurately be described as 'slums', the places where the less fortunate hung about and generally inflicted even more misfortune upon each other. Though my home was usually a bright, radiant and pristine place, there was always a shadow where light was cast, and this was most certainly it.

Isabella had asked to meet me here again; why, I hadn't a clue, as she seemed to despise the place so, but then again it wasn't as if I minded. The gangsters that had cornered me in the main streets hadn't been seen since the incident, by me or otherwise. But it did seem like they were persistently tailing me, unafraid to attack me even in broad daylight, which is roughly what it was at the moment, and I had more than just a sneaking suspicion that their base of operations would be somewhere in this district.

It was understandable, then, that my eyes shifted back and forth as I navigated the alleyways and streets, knowing almost every crevice of the reprehensible area. Indeed the arranged meeting place was not far off where we had previously beaten down the two gangs, and I wondered somewhat at that; perhaps Isabella was determined to hunt them down and finish them for good? ...I didn't really know, but I was aware that I had almost arrived at the designated location.

As I rounded a corner through a dim back alley, I froze and retreated around behind the corner. Standing there, fidgeting slightly in what seemed to be impatience, was one of the gang members in their clearly definable physique and plain attire of a tank top and cargo pants; one of the cronies. I quietly hissed a curse as I realized he was gazing out at the street as though an ambush was being staged, and breathed a small sigh of relief that I had not ventured through the predictable way, as I estimated, focusing my eyes into the distance past the unknowing gangster to the alley-entrances across, seeing yet another of the minions, that I would have been in serious trouble.

Would they never let up?

My teeth gritted as I decided that I would simply have to take the fucker out, especially since it wasn't as though I was just gonna turn around and leave Isabella alone in this... exact spot...

...No... surely not.

Could she be behind the ambush? Could she have given me away? My teeth gritted in the violence of how much I didn't want to believe it, but that quickly manifested into a killing rage as, with no effort to muffle my movements, I charged around the corner with a roar and raised my fist high above my head.

"Show yourself!" I heard shouted, by what sounded quite distinctly like Isabella's imperious yet somehow still watery tone, and as I blundered forward with a ferocious snarl, the gang member's head turning in surprise at my obvious approach, I contemplated that maybe she was indeed co-ordinatin this whole scheme, and if that was true, then the element of surprise was never going to be mine, what with her incredible ability to detect sound at great distances and low levels.

Regardless, the brute may have been broad, but he was no match for my honed speed; I tore my arm back up over my shoulder as I hit a suitable distance away, throwing all my weight back onto my fist and back foot, reaching an incredible elastic extension that simply had to rebound, and rebound it would. As my front foot planted I swung it with great force through the atmosphere, cannoning it into the dude's astonished face.

And as it hit, with a cruel and efficient brutality I locked my whole arm and, indeed, entire form rigid, transferring the built-up energy out up through every corner of my being outward through my knuckles in one huge, invisible explosion that would have jolted the poor dude's brain inside his head, rocking him for an entire instant before he flew forward and went out like a light; even if he was not unconscious from my blow, his subsequent crash into a garbage bin planted in the middle of the street - for I had clear him entirely of his stealthy alleyway position - surely would have.

I strolled out after him, my stroll measured, but my face seething with anger. I turned to glance about, and spotted the shorter woman in the middle of the street also.

My bark was harsh, if slightly shaken and afraid of the answer, the finger I pointed accusing, for though I could not be entirely certain that this was Isabella's doing, the evidence was stacked against her in my mind.

"You! Isabella! Did you bring them here?!"[/ul][/justify]

[Draven]

ultimecia +20

Kaizu +20 O.o

[The Roar of the Falls]

Name: Screaming Mimi
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user uses the power of their voice to send forth a powerful line of sound, which varies in power depending on the users rank in the vocal symphony knowledge technique
Special: Handseals
Drawback: none
Description: By focusing chakra into their vocal chords, the user is able to sing an extremely high-pitched note. Upon singing this note a powerful force of sound is able to be projected from the user’s mouth. It’s somewhat difficult to see, but does cause a ripple when moving through the air, so it is perceivable. The damage of the sound wave is dependent on the users Vocal Symphony knowledge technique.

D ranked- Does D ranked bludgeoning damage to the person effected by it and causes them to be pushed back 3 meters.
C ranked- Causes C ranked bludgeoning damage to the user, and pushes them back about 10 meters
B ranked- Causes C ranked bludgeoning damage from initial impact and C ranked damage from the vibration the technique causes after striking the body (totals B rank damage). This vibration causes the effected to move slightly slower, loosing one movement and lasts for 2 posts. (Should this be hit multiple times the effect can stack.)
A ranked- Causes B ranked Bludgeoning damage on initial impact, as well as the B ranked vibration damage (totals A ranked damage). The vibration effect causes the afflicted to move at 2 movements less then their normal for 2 posts. (can stack if hit multiple times).
S ranked- Causes A ranked Bludgeoning damage on initial impact, as Well as the A ranked vibration damage (totals S rank damage). The vibration effect causes the afflicted to move at 3 movements less then their normal for 2 posts. (can stack if hit multiple times). At this rank, should the attack collide with a solid object, it will generally shatter apart from the vibration.

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Due to her self deafening technique, Isabella only saw her friends mouth moving and could hardly read her lips. She looked rather pissed and the intensity in her face accompanied by the unconscious body on the ground and her jabbing finger, she was clearly upset with her. She opened her mouth to interject when a vibrating sensation in her chest alerted her to many footsteps comings down the alley way towards them. Fearing the worst for herself and Kaoru she circled around her and flipped a handful of seals, her throat swelling slightly as the potent amounts of energy collected in her vocals.

She wasted no time, and with an almost heavy heart she compressed the chakra in her throat, the many sound waves bouncing and colliding around her throat as her eyes watered from the resistance. She finally let out a long, piercing scream that, sitting inside the crash zone tech, amplified her scream to inhumane lengths and shook the foundations of the rotting buildings and homes within the 20 meter radius. Unfortunately Kaoru was caught in this, but there was simply so way around it the sound had left body and was tearing through the air with relentless speed.

The sound traveled outward with frightening speed as she held the scream for as long as her lungs would allow. The endless noise would reverberate off of one another, the particles in the air, the building and and all solid objects that could and would reflect the sound waves off of it. Each reflection creating a propagation of more waves that would then rebound off the next wave creating literally millions if not billions of waves of sound, all attuned the the frequency of her scream and held at the tone with chakra s to not be dampened.

Who or whatever was coming down that alley way would regret it, the simple scream would feel like being hit with a C rank amount of blunt force and a B rank worth of sonic damage to the eardrums from the previous tech. She didnt know how long she had coated the area, but she knew the length of her deafening, and she would need to deafen Kaoru to have any hope of explaining things to her later. The scream though was reaching the end of the alley, hell bent of disrupting the hearbeat of whomever decided it was smart to chase her friend down into a dark and slimy areas like this.

Isabella's breath had run out finally as they burned for more oxygen, and at the end she had shrieked an extra octave to vent out her frustration and fear of what she might have done to Kaoru. She wa sonly hoping that when she had stepped around her in that instant that she had done that incredible move she had used against the gang and flickered at least 5 meters away, just in the safety of the normal range of hearing not within Isabella death sphere she planned to use for further training. Her heard pounded sounded like a wrecking ball slamming against a diamond wall.

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It was then that they started crawling out of the woodworks.

I had somewhat expected their numbers to be larger than in our previous encounter, but shit. As I glanced frantically around I spotted one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight of them darting out of alleys and over fences, from behind all manner of objects as though the buildings were summoning them forth. None of them were particularly close to me, but that was a fact that was changing fast as two zoomed in with surprising speed for their bulk towards me with savage, if stupid, expressions.

I lowered myself into a stance defensively, about to react to whatever attack they presented, when a scream tore through the area with a ferocity that stabbed a hole right through my cranium and lit it on fire. I shouted in agony and clutched at my ears, knowing even as I did so where the technique had originated from, and my eyes raising with a fire to face her the instant I managed to force the pain away, though I still couldn't hear jackshit.

The cronies in front were slower to recover, so I had enough time to see Isabella... but what immediately confused me was that the brutes, in fact for the time being the majority of them, were attacking her. My features flashed with bewilderment and surprise, realizing I may have been wrong in my immediate assumption, before suddenly another fire, but this one more like an alerting light, blazed in my mind, telling me to look up; my gaze flicked up to the unconsciously indicated direction to see one of the gangsters whose time stunned I had overestimated bearing down on my still-bent form with a heavy fist.

See the thing was, now I had a fuckton of anger, but nowhere to direct it, so it further embedded itself into my being till my snarl was so bursting with rage, my body so pumped with adrenaline that as the dude swung down at me it only registered as pathetic as I easily stopped it with a thump with one arm, moved in further, swinging my empty arm downward and then pushing it upward with such speed, power and ease it was like a reverse guillotine, crashing into the brute's chin with a thunderous finality that lifted him off his feet and likely broke his entire fucking skull, which I could only grin at.

Before he even managed to hit the ground I flicked my savage gaze on the second guy, who for a moment looked pitiful as he watched his partner's thrashing, but this only served to spice my rage with a nice helping of maliciousness, and my grin grew malevolent as I stepped in with a flash, pulling my arm back with that same almost impossibly refined and practiced motion, drawing as much energy from the usually careless action as I possibly could; for even in blind anger, a certain technique could be mustered, to great effect.

My muscles moving smoothly, almost loosely, I swung my well-toned arm forward and thumped it, too, into the guy's skull, which he didn't even have time to raise a fist to guard; and with a smash I released that same deadly burst of energy from my fist, drawing the momentum and force from my entire body as opposed to just my arm, devastating his poor mind as it took it on a rollercoaster round his skull as it fucking quit on him, completely leaving his body to its own devices as it shut down.

Bam. Three down.

I swerved, my rage still unsatisfied, and searched for further targets; two more dumbasses stood between me and Isabella, the other four bearing down on her.

They stood in my way.

As my eyes spoke pure spite to them, I crouched down and sped towards that duo as well. This gang may be a thorn in my side, but fuck were they fun to beat into the ground.[/ul][/justify]

[Fui]

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(both + 20)

[The Roar of the Falls]

"Urutora Oto Shindou" (Ultra sound vibration)
Rank: C-B ranked
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Sound waves vibrate bones painfully.
Special:Dragon, Hare, Ram, Rat, Ox, Rat, Monkey, Hare
Drawback:Cannot be used more then twice during battle, due to this jutsu having a minor effect on the user (who suffers a mild pain). If the user uses this technique more then twice, he/she may fall victim to this jutsu.
Armor provides little protection.
Kaguyas/ Tai masters may not be effected by this jutsu due to Higher bone density.
Description: Much like Himei no Jutsu. The user send a powerful and high pitched noise directly at an opponent. The user may use their vocal cords or weapon to emit the sound, which is launched at a 60 degree radius. The sound waves do not target hearing, bit rather an opponent bone structure. The sound waves hits the solid bones and bounces off of them, causing them to vibrate. This vibration is extremely painful to the opponent, can tamper with an opponents actions. The opponent can still move and hear, but attacks and movements are servilely hindered (C- rank=2 post, B-Rank=4 posts) the effectiveness of this jutsu and an opponent must caught at least 1/3 in this jutsu range.
C-Ranks reaches a maximum of 30 meters,
B-Ranks reaches a Maximum of 60 meters.
Limit: Must Have sound release.

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Isabella watched the hoodlums close in around her, the echoing footsteps telling her that they were even behind her. From the sounds she guessed roughly 6 at max 8 people around her and Kaoru was in the midst herself. With a set jaw Isabella drew her tiny frame up to her full unimpressive height and flipped a lightning quick set of seals, each seal stimulating the 8 gates that regulated her flow and determined just how much chakra she had in her and she looked out at the four in front of her with a disgusted sneer. She was almost visibly shaking from the power of the attack she was prepping.

With the completion of the hand seals she felt the slight hum of the sound chakra as it rippled through her being and searched violently for a means of escape, trapped inside her being and held in check by the chakra inside her body. It almost hurt the way it shook her from head to toe and made her lugs hurt when she breathed. Its frequency was too high and she lowered it through the concentration of her energy. The process took seconds, if not fractions of one and its began its low rumbling pulse that made her teeth rattle painfully though she refused to show it

With a yell she clasped her hands together tightly and directed the flow down her arms, fearing the immense pain channeling such violent force down her thin arms would cause. The reaction was like a floodgate opening into a dry lake bed, the raw power rushing into the now extended arms that allowed a bit more freedom for it to amplify inside her body and propagate to maximum capacity. Her arms began to grow heavy with the chakra now concentrating in her hands and causing her fingers to tremble.

A smile formed on her face strangely as she rounded out the technique, finally giving all the unused chakra a form and purpose. Her forefingers touching, she compiled the chakra at the tips of her fingers and rounding them roughly into an oval like shape. The vibrations happening inside the capsules was intense, each wave bouncing off the next in an endless cycle as more and more waves were produced and threatened to rupture the held form of her choice.

With a quick twitch she spread her arms and the capsule in her hands emitted a mass of vibrations that rushed forward like an angry flock, slamming into the skeletal structure of the 4 goons in front of her and vibrating their bones painfully, so painful in fact it would cause the bones to rattle and rub together furiously, possibly weakening tendons and weak cartilage in the knees and ankles.

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Even as I rushed towards the dudes, rage burning like an inner furnace inside my mind and heart, my whole body ablaze with adrenaline and anger, I felt a danger incoming; a terrible one, too, and it was moments after I felt the air about me subtly vibrate that suddenly my bones were struck with a terrible, shuddering force, almost stopping me in my tracks; I stumbled in my charge, bones and muscles protesting against my movements as they shrieked in agony at the tremors.

Fuck, Isabel, just what the fuck were you trying to do? Regardless of whether or not she was directing her attacks at me, she was going to kill me off as collateral anyhow.

As I managed to raise my protesting neck to view the battle conditions, I saw that the other guys had copped the worst of it; they were now almost reduced to hands and knees in the terrible ache the sound user had provided them with. I glanced over their bowed forms at the minute Isabella, and even though it was not certain she'd meet my gaze, my optics spoke a clear message.

You've got some explaining to do.

This thought somehow fueling me and galvanizing me into action, I managed to push off my legs, weakened and sluggish though they were - and though every step was a struggle to keep straight I still managed to move forward with enough speed that the brutes were unable to recover or even provide any resistance - I doubted they even noticed I was there. With a pitiless power I raised my fist over my shoulder, stretching my arm back to its full extent, before throwing it downward upon the guy.

My body was unable to produce the epic amount of support I could usually muster from it, but the downward angle was quite the assist; in the end the attack was more a huge drop of weight as it crushed down upon the back of the guy's neck, still bent double as he was. I almost forgot to lock my punch to produce that crippling detonation, and even as I thought of it and attempted it at the last second, trying to resurrect some solidarity from my deteriorated condition, very little was formed, and the punch was barely any more harmful than the brute strength I could provide. Still, upon such an area, any little amount of technique went a long way, and he was smashed painfully into the concrete.

My second target, given enough time to recover, now looked up with a slight amount of terror, unable to make his body react properly; his limbs responded sluggishly to his commands, and even as he tried to raise a block it came off as completely abject, the guard almost token, raised in an x-shape as it was. I managed to pull a spin, pivoting on the ball of my foot, towards the weakened enemy, raising a punch in a similar fashion, building the rotation's momentum upon it, fueling it with force and power.

As I reached the desired point I pulled out of the spin and threw the punch at his still-exposed face, crashing through any semblance of a block with ease and punching him squarely in the face, locking my punch and transferring that power through the guy's nose, easily breaking it, but perhaps not any of his skull beyond, debilitated as I was. Still, the amount of energy I managed to muster from the otherwise deficit blow was considerable, and certainly brought it up to standard, if not beyond; a mastery of the technique, as far as I was concerned.

He flew backward, almost enough to hit the wall, and I stood to face where the remaining four gangsters had been just a moment ago, though whether or not Isabella had dealt with them by now remained to be seen.[/ul][/justify]

[|Ayame Unbound|]

+20 each~

[The Roar of the Falls]

"Oto Dangan" (Sound Bullet)
Rank: C-B rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Small invisible sound waves pass through opponents body, but harms body on the molecular level.
Special: Horse, Monkey, Bird, Ox, (Hold) Tiger
Drawback: Some armors may greatly reduce the effectiveness of this jutsus. Other (large) sources of sound may cancel out this jutsu. Also, the users hands at the same time cannot be used for anything else (explained below). Visible to those with chakra seeing powers.
Special: Horse, Monkey, Bird, Ox, (Hold) Tiger
Description: While holding the the tiger handseal, chakra begins to flow between the small gap left by the two hands being held together. The user proceeds to position the handseal held over his/her own mouth now. All sounds emitted through the handseal are converted and charged by the chakra, to become far more deadlier. The chakra compresses, and alters the sounds wave lengths, forcing them into a smaller area (roughly the size of senbon needles). The entire process occurs within fractions of a sec and the user is able to create multiple sound bullets. The sound bullet itself travels at amazing speeds and are extremely hard to dodge.
-Upon hitting the opponent, the sound bullets travel right through the human body. Once inside the body, the sound bullet clashes against every cell in the vicinity, vibrating them violently. Water retained in the cell vibrate so much, that they explode upon themselves. To the opponent, he/she will suffer searing pain in the area where the sound bullet hits.
-This jutsu is best used on open extremities of the opponent
C-Rank:The user is able to create three sound bullets that travel a maximum of 40 meter
B-Rank:The user is able to create 6 sound bullets that travel a maximum of 60 meters.

Limit: Must have sound release, and ultra sound vibration

The vibrations must have done the trick because Isabella's competition was simply cringing in on themselves, the vibration ratting and shaking their bones painfully so that it was just too much to move. She hated what she was about to do but when she reminded herself why she became the ninja she was today, her resolve slipped back into place and she set her shoulders, steeling herself for the pain she was about to cause.

She repeated her earlier seals with a little variation, the chakra immediately rushing into her arms and she fought down the fluxing sound waves as they shook her arms and she looked up at her enemies with hooded eyes. She let out a fierce growl and the still earlier enhancement jutsu was in effect, turning he growl into a more bestial sounding threat as would possibly instill even more fear into the already weakened and bowing thugs that had threatened her friend.

The chakra made her fingertips tremble and with an audibly sharp crack she slammed her hands together and laced the chakra between her fingers and compacted the undulating waves into a harmonious ball of trembling power literally sitting on her fingertips. It was invisible to the unaided eye, the ball roughly the shape of a bullet and the same circumference all around. She steadied her arms and aimed, rocketing off the first shot into the shoulder of one man.

As the bullet hit him square in the shoulder, it would painfully vibrate and rupture every cell it touched, the result being unimaginable pain and internal bleeding if hit in any of the vital organs or ruptured a major blood vessel. She had more stored up, so much power, so much energy needing an outlet she formed another bullet and turned to shoot at a one of them who looked to be contemplating running.

The first shot left and with the remaining chakra she shot a second time, her aim precise and lethal, both shots were aimed for the hip joints, the tender tissue right in the bend where the leg meets the hip. It would completely cripple his movement, save for crawling and she looked onward at the other two. A snide look on her face as she did so. "Any other takers?"

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Isabella was striking them down with that same purgatory rage that I had quickly come to love about her - but my anger-addled mind still registered her as an uncertainty; there was no comrade-like feelings there, at least not for the time being. I began to rush forward again, though my eyes were locked on the back of the two remaining gangsters not struck down by Isabella's invisible death shots.

In that moment my mind was so white-hot with killer intent, pushing against my cranium like an iron press, that I hardly even registered the action that I performed next - it just occurred of its own volition. As I rushed forward I reached over my back and placed an unnecessarily strong grip upon my shield, tearing it free of its binds as I pulled back upon myself, rearing upwards, giving myself extra space in which to build momentum.

My grip like steel upon my shield's top, I pitched forward, my forward step thudding into the concrete like a deadly warning. My arm came over my shoulder, dragging the heavy chunk of metal with it; I locked my eyes with one of the gangster's spines; in that instant I accounted for the weight of my aegis, the wind - though that would hardly be a factor with such a heavy item - the distance, and aligned my arm's forward arc accordingly; my arm moved over my shoulder and I released the shield at the designated point.

It flew forward at speed, spinning quite rapidly through the air, whooshing and cutting through the atmosphere, looking far too ungainly to be moving with such precision, but fucking doing it anyway. With a heavy crunch it smashed into the dude's back, barely missing his spine, which might have been broken on impact. I didn't even care if I killed these guys anymore - I just wanted them off my back. But as the dude was thumped forward into the pavement, my shield bouncing off his form and clattering to the floor, I reckoned he was still living.

My rush had stopped with my toss, my follow through having to be nice and stable to account for the terrible weight of the throw's force upon my body - I'd pivoted almost completely sideways. I rose into a casual stance, teeth still gritted, eyes still alight, trusting Isabella to have dealt with the final brute, bodies now littering the floor about us.

I could still barely hear, but I knew that I was yelling loudly.

"DID YOU LEAD THEM TO ME?!" I demanded with a fury, knowing that there was only a limited amount of time before... he... showed up.[/ul][/justify]

[N A T S U M I]

Isabella: +10
Kaoru: +10

[The Roar of the Falls]

Ototon: Wakemaru (Sound Style: Division Circle)
Rank: A
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user releases an incredibly sharp circle of sound waves.
Special: “Hand Seals”
Drawback: Can only fly in a straight direction.
Description: The user forms the hand seals, channeling elementally recomposed Sound Chakra into the user’s vocal chords. The user will then release a burst of amplified sound from their mouth. This sound will take the form of a ring of compressed sound waves about half a meter in diameter, shooting off at extremely high speeds in a straight line. This ring is capable of puncturing through almost anything and is known as a highly deadly technique for the characteristic ring-like cut it leaves in the bodies, cleanly cutting out a cylinder of flesh directly in their core. This technique has a maximum range of twenty meters, plus five for every difficulty rank above C the user possesses.
Limit: Must have Ototon.

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Isabella stood in the silence that followed after Kaoru's question not knowing it was directed to her at first, but eventially she turned to meet the accusing glare of Kaoru and her heart gave a sharp pang of....remorse? Sadness?" "Kaoru I...." She mumbled stepping forward and feeling the upsetting sting of a tear starting. "I can HARDLY stand coming here as it is, why would I come back here just to have a gang weaker than you AND me try and hurt you or worse?" She huffed and turned her back, the remaining guy still in the vicinity.

Raging inside at the accusation she slammed her hands together in a definate set of seals and forced her chakra to multiply within itself over and over, creating a symphony of clashing waves creating every yet more and more waves to feed into her soon to be clone. She worked feverishly to hold in all the built up sound chakra, huffing and panting as it pumped her heard rate up. Her seal created a harmony inside her now, a deep breath steeling her for the next process.

The breath opened her airway and a flood of chakra cam with it, coating her vocals in rapidly vibrating cells hell bent on going from one target to another through any means necessary. She intended to do such a thing too, creating a mold for a ring his her throat, she cough slightly and a ring of chakra shot out, impacting the dirt and sending little sprays everywhere. She looked up with a predatorial glare and focused her rage on the goon rather than her own nin mate.

"How could you THINK that?!" She yelled, each words wrenching out a hell born ring that carved cylinder shaped chucks out of whatever it managed to hit should the ring fly true. A sharp fitful cry sent another right broad side first into an old building and she looked at the good one last time, nodding his towards the alley exit. If she spoke, it would result in a minced meat scumbag and she had no intention killing anyone, maybe crippling them momentarily at best.

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"Kaoru I...."

And as I heard the hesitation, the pangs of hurt in Isabella's voice, my anger went out like a light, my features going blank, the only semblance of an expression were my eyes, which remained wide and shocked. I thought to myself, 'My god... what are you?' As the smaller girl turned her back on me, the only remaining goon glancing around, trapped between a rock and a hard place, even as the fighting stalled. My arm drooped down to my side, and I realized just how stupid I'd been.

"I can HARDLY stand coming here as it is, why would I come back here just to have a gang weaker than you AND me try and hurt you or worse?" She cried, and the words hit me fairly hard; I dropped my gaze, the pavement the only safe area for my gaze to lay, as I turned my emotions over in my head, in some form trying to justify my actions. I was in no way a stranger to being a slave of emotion, but usually my masters had been anger, or contempt... these feelings of friendship, and things beyond... they were unfamiliar, and they had easy routes to my most vulnerable areas.

Then, it was Isabella's turn to grow angry, and even though I didn't want to see her that way, not when it was truly directed at me, no matter what she did to the environment or the last goon. I realized in surprise anew that I was close to tears. When, oh when, had I become this fragile? ...No, I thought I knew the answer to that.

"How could you THINK that?!" The words were saturated with indignation and hurt, and they galvanized me into my response; the sort of thoughts I usually kept in my head, the ones I had been forced to torturously contemplate over the past months, spilled forth freely.

"I'm sorry, Isabella! I really am!" Every word was unstable, and the tremors within them betrayed just how close to tears I was. "I... I just, I don't know what to believe anymore, or who to trust. Every time I seem to make a friend, they betray me or hurt me or... go away..." My thoughts, of course, fled to Ryuuchou. A person who, I could no longer deny, I had loved; he had been so kind to me, and now he had just... disappeared. There was no trace of him anywhere, no clue as to his whereabouts.

...Had I fallen in love again?

"I just... you invited me here and they... they always know where I am and..." Now my thoughts devolved into near-incoherence, my speech following at the heels. I bent double, aching at the heart, feeling like a complete idiot. Was I going to drive Isabella away as well? Was that going to happen? I hardly realized that one of the unconscious idiots lay in front of me, my eyes screwed shut as they were. As they opened to see him, suddenly my sadness was once again lit ablaze, and I reached down and clasped at the dude's shoulders.

With a massive heave, I threw my head downward towards the guy's forehead, simply needing an object to take the sense of insatiability I had somehow managed to gain. I drew him up and smashed my forehead against his, the impact quite terrible; then, with an increasing frustration but lower amount of power, my energy draining out me, I did it again, simply summoning momentum from my powerful upper body and thumping the guy in the face, probably further breaking his already fractured skull.

As I continuously performed this motion, venting frustration, doing it over and over again, each time more vehement but driving me closer and closer to tears once again, I realized that there was blood upon my forehead, and that I had properly fucked the guy's face right up; if I continued, he was going to die. With teeth gritted so hard it was a wonder they didn't shatter I contemplated it for longer than I probably should have, before I tossed the moron's form away from me with infinite contempt and simply put my head in my hands.

"Fuck... me...!" I managed to mutter angrily at myself, my words still unstable.

I was such a fucking wreck these days, it was pathetic.[/ul][/justify]

[Draven]

ultimecia +16

Kaizu +20

[The Roar of the Falls]

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Isabella knew it best not to open her mouth to answer her immediately, the volatile jutsu in her body looking for any means of escape would use her mouth as a primary means of doing so and possibly harm if not kill Kaoru. She didn't have a target, the last attacker being of less a threat than a falling acorn against the earth. Her throat and chest expanded immensely, the propagating sound waves barreling around inside of her like a restless bull.

She tuned the frequencies up and down like a mad disk jockey, mixing and swapping each frequency till she found one that was more harmonious with her small stature. She finally settled on a low pulsating beat that was in tempo with her heartbeat, causing her heart to pound heavily in her chest with each throb as the sound chakra increased the intensity of the sound, each throb more like a punch landing on the back side of her rib cage.

She cast a somewhat sorrowful glance towards Kaoru as she finally managed to fight back the violent nature of the technique threatening to overwhelm her. It sat heavily in her throat, pulsing with a finality that shook her vocal chords down through her larynx. The small flap that separated the lungs from the esophagus flipped open and closed rapidly as she exhaled through it to relieve some of the pressure building up inside her tiny body and threatened to rupture her organs.

She fought the chakra down and looked up to the right of Kaoru, her mouth angled so the release of the chakra would not cause her any unintended hard. "Kaoru!" She gasped, a wide vertical circle emitting from her mouth and flying off into the distance towards a passing cloud. "I...would never harm my own comrade." The words we punctuated by the metallic sounding whistle of the charged chakra flying out of her open mouth and up into the clouds again.

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"Kaoru! I...would never harm my own comrade."

The air rippled to my right, a vibrating pulse that almost rattled my form again despite being aimed well clear. But no sound jutsu needed to hit me for the words to have a powerful impact. As I crouched there, a pathetic and miserable creature, useless to everyone and anyone, even Isabella... especially Isabella... the words pierced my enclosed mind and rang within it. I managed to look up at her, my eyes still watery, cheeks stained with what probably would have quickly evolved into one of my more violent and uncontrollable crying fits; but I looked at her, and suddenly I didn't feel quite so sad anymore.

If what she said was true... then that was enough for me.

"Well now..."

And as I heard the deep, booming voice from behind me, my eyes widened in shock, for it penetrated the small realm that had tethered Isabella and I together; as it shattered in that instant I turned my head, my astonishment quickly evolving into that same fury as my teeth gritted and empathy left my eyes.

There, indeed, he stood, as I knew he would; atop one of the grimy roofs, almost directly behind me some thirty meters away and twenty meters up, flanked by three more of what were supposedly his minions, leaning casually against another wall. His coffee-colored skin set him apart from his peers, as did his height, and more importantly, the presence he carried; unlike them, he spoke endless confidence and a sense of self-assurance; his grin was small, but it was smug nonetheless.

As I saw him, a rod of flaming white anger drove directly through my heart, sending pulses of adrenaline anew through my body; my eyes glazed over, losing all compassion. I turned, and I stood, and the air almost seemed to ripple about me as the force of my anger flooded through my veins; it was born of a pure dislike, an exasperation and irritation, coupled with his intrusion, so complete that it manifested physically, like a vengeful spirit summoned forth from within me.

The adrenaline shut down my pain receptors; my teeth clenched down upon the impossible fury that began to rack my body, which would surely tear me to shreds, it was so great. Through the tremors that had begun to set in, I managed to open my mouth and speak one simple word, spoken with such a loathing that it would more or less summarize all Isabella needed to know about the situation without any prolonged explanation.

"...You."

My fits balled, and had they not been wreathed in the steel of my cestus my nails would surely have pierced my flesh. The pure rage I felt continued to surge through my body, giving me new energy, expelling all my sorrow, simply using whatever it could not eject to fuel it.

"Me indeed." He affirmed simply. "And you... both of you." His eyes moved to Isabella then, the far smaller girl; a less physically impressive specimen, but one that seemed to be quite proficient in the disdainful art of ninjutsu. Still, one could hardly expect another to forsake their abilities for their opponent's hatred of it, and thus her power would also have to be dealt with. As he pushed himself off the wall he had leaned against, he strolled forward to the very edge of the rooftop and leaned over it, placing one arm upon his knee.

"We shall see how well you fair this time." He announced, and as though upon command, the three goons jumped down, landing with a thud. My enraged, unreasoning eyes had been unable to discern it at a distance, but as they lowered themselves to my height I recognized the trio for who they were; the originals I had fought in the bar, years ago. I had no doubt that they would be stronger than what had seemed like the recruits we had just endured.

My hatred only increased as I noticed them for who they were, my snarl only growing in fury.

The rage empowering me, I dropped into a stance, and two of the three charged straight for me; the other gave me a wide berth as he moved in an arc, evidently towards Isabella, who still stood behind me. He was no danger to me currently, and my shrunken mind managed to reckon that Isabella could take care of him herself.

"Come on, you FUCKS!' I roared at the approaching duo, waiting on their approach, just picturing the moment when I'd get to beat their fucking faces in...[/ul][/justify]

[The Roar of the Falls]

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The appearance of someone apparently in the know of Kaoru's past made their entrance with a handful of more men, though they seemed more...confident. They exchanged dialogue for a moment and Isabella simply closed her eyes, focusing only on her technique and doing her best to block out the painful thud that sounded when the goons descended to the ground and threw her equilibrium off completely, the over powering foreign force of the thuds offsetting her hairline control on the sound waves.

She let out a sharp cry and fought back for control, the overbearing fear she may have overstepped her own ability and crossed a boundry of power she was not capable of controlling, even as the ninmaster and adopted sister of Stella the Onigami, Her thoughts were obliterated with every painful rebound of the sound waves, costing her second upon second to save her own life and hopefully not hard her friend. Isabella's eyes watered with the searing pain and felt the rippling recoil inside her abdomen.

Hit after hit echoed off her bones, rib cage, spine her fingers everything was fair game. She doubled over in agony as she swallowed, the action stretching her vocal cords as they swelled with sound chakra and traveled back down her body with unfathomable speed. The recoil struck her heart, her pancreas, bladder, kidney all her organs taking a piercing hit from the frantic energy and her mouth opened slightly, a vacuum of pure sound energy tearing up the earth in front of her and spraying her in the eyes with the debris.

Through the pounding in her eardrums, the sensitive hairs and liquid in the canals stinging like raw nerve ends, picked up footfalls and they approached what she assume to be Kaoru, and her sensitive ears picked up the too near steps coming towards her. 'NO!' Her thoughts screamed as she staggered to her feet, fighting the sheer impossibility of the pain and casting an eye towards the approaching sound. It was definitely one of the goons, a smug smile assured her had her.

For some reason the fear inside her decided to show itself, embedding itself in her mind and she panicked. He seemed to be closing the distance so fast, faster than her sound could ever travel? Her eyes played tricks, the fear taking over and skewing her logic. Her skin rippling and humming softly with power she let out a scream, an ear shattering, soul shaking scream as the massive sound ring exploded from her mouth and split the corner of her mouth, the knock back forcing her onto her back and skidding several feet.

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[Post Two]

The rage continued to seethe through me, boiling my mind, lighting my body on fire; a fire of pure power, of exhilaration and hatred and lust for destruction that made even the pavement at my feet seem like an inviting target to bash to pieces, but the small semblance of presence my mind managed to retain managed to rear my pure, animalistic instincts in, and directed my eyes towards the oncoming gangsters. 'They are your enemies', it reminded me softly, and I managed to obey, trembling expectantly even at the thought of the crunches I would hear, the caving sensation I would feel under my heavy fists.

I had to focus all my remaining will to even react to the outside world, to prevent myself from simply succumbing entirely to my anger and being lost in the fiery void of hell that threatened to consume me; I was teetering on the edge, and I knew that if I fell, I would likely end up hurting myself, as well as everyone around me, Isabella included. I could not - I would not let that happen. I had to focus on that idea. That Isabella was at my back. That I had found a new... friend. That gave me a reason to continue to fight the anger, and continue to fight my enemy.

So as the first one zoomed in, faster than his partner, I had to move. I had to push through the imploding energy within myself and even just throw myself at the enemy, which I did, my motion rapid, uncaring and erratic, blinking in towards him with more speed than I'd ever displayed before; I almost lost my balance, but in the moments of advantage I had managed to step ahead of the goon I could easily regain it, and manage to process a simple, thoroughly ingrained thought through my burning brain that had become a frequent one throughout almost my entire life.

Punch.

And punch I did. There was little technique to it, no control; I could not keep myself that in check. I simply swung my arm, my muscles bulging with the tension they were being held with, my strength amplified considerably, which was a frightening though, especially for the less skilled members of the gang. My arm crashed through the atmosphere, accuracy inhibited but speed increased, aiming right for the dude's skull.

...What the FUCK!?!?

With a celerity I had most certainly not expected, nor really registered till the impact, my opponent managed to raise a block with a solid arm, taking the brunt of my fury-empowered blow with it; my already burning eyes registered an insane sort of surprise, my snarl growing in hostility, if that were even possible, as I heard the arm crack underneath the weight of my steel-fronted blow; but he was not down! I roared, almost without thinking, certainly without meaning to, right in his pain-scrunched face; I was no longer me.

I heard a screech, one that vibrated the air, but at this stage it only served to upset my further, deepening the inferno's grip on my mind, body and soul. I would have to follow up on the bastard; he was not down.[/ul][/justify]

[Draven]

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