__ Tetsuhiko arrived to the training grounds with a start. He was excited to begin learning some techniques as well as start his Oinin training. He was already good with flowers and would need to start his medical training to qualify. The Chuunin also felt certain that he had a lot to learn since becoming drastically stronger after the genin tournament.
_______________ ☼Out Of Context☼ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Tetsuhiko enters the stage!
Bast sauntered in a few minutes behind Tetsu, a treasure chest-shaped golem in tow with a sizable stack of scrolls on its back. Ever so casually, she walked around the facility until she found Tetsu, gave a tired sigh, and jabbed her thumb at the stack of scrolls.
"I figured we might as well do some training since we're here. You'll need to be able to protect yourself above all else, so learn whatever you need to. We'll head to the hospital after and get through medical training. Any objections?" She sounded tired and ever so slightly more grumpy than usual because of it. In truth, she had a bit of a headache and just really wanted to sleep it off, but that wasn't something in the wheelhouse at that moment.
((Bast is gonna have a headache until her customs are ironed out. Hooray?))
Sheathing his sword, a loud boom would cover the whole village. It was Ayame, the Kazekage. " Academy, huh." he said, curious as to what the announcement was. Masato sighed, moving towards the academy. Might as well see if there was some other enemy in need of slaying. -exit-
Bast tried to shake off her headache and only succeeded a small amount. Even tea wasn't helping, so she decided to concentrate on something else. She used Yuishiki to hone her mind toward the singular goal of weapons training, then bit her finger and drew a clock face in blood at the center of her forehead. The clock faded away, leaving behind only the tiny p***k of pain from her Genjutsu and a highly focused mind.
Training would hopefully let her pass some time until her headache went away. She grabbed a scroll from the stack, unfurled it, read it over once, set it on the ground, then drew a katana she had hanging from her hip. After making sure she was satisfactorily far away from her lovely student, she got to work.
Post 1/1 for Basic Stab
What awaited her was a slow start, but a start nonetheless. She thrust her blade. That was it. So simple was the Basic Stab.
Post 1/1 for Linear Step
This was honestly pretty light work. Her body could take it easily. She executed a flawless Linear Step on her first try.
Post 1/1 for Reinforcement
Now this was a departure, though she understood why it was included. She reinforced the blade with her Chakra, a simple matter for someone with her Chakra control and understanding of barriers. Did people actually struggle with this? She'd have to ask, or she would if she weren't so focused that she hadn't actually thought of the question.
Post 1/1 for Deflection
She shed her robes and folded them neatly next to the stack of scrolls, leaving her in her standard red pants and white shirt. For this one, she needed to make a cushion of Chakra to swat all those pesky attacks away before they touched her sword. She did just that.
Post 1/1 for Forward Grind
For this technique she needed a partner. Tetsu might not fare well if she started single-mindedly attacking him, but a clone would be just fine, so she made one. They locked blades, she ground hers forward, it was a good time for all.
Post 1/1 for Pivot Block
Now she was on the defending side. Her clone attacked, she pivoted and blocked, then stopped just before taking its cloned head clean off its shoulders. There was something relaxing about tasking her mind toward a goal like this.
Post 1/1 for Calligraphy
Who named these things? Well, Bast got the gist of it, at least: hit fast, not hard. She wasn't particularly averse to such things. She did a barrage of attacks quickly, then took a deep breath and stepped back.
Post 1/1 for Extension
Yet another thing that was trivial for someone of her training. Instead of reinforcing the blade, this time she had to extend her Chakra outward to elongate it. She did so, measured the length by thrusting the tip into the sand, and then moved on.
Post 1/1 for Solid Footing
Ah, now this one was a twist. Bast anchored herself to the ground like she was using the Tree Walking Technique, but let the Chakra reinforce her physical orientation. It felt resolute, firm, like a great boulder or a wall. She ended it all the same.
Post 1/1 for Twin Blade
She was starting to feel faster. Much faster. The exact limits of this speed boost were something she'd have to investigate later, but for now, there was more learning to do. Yet again she created a sheath of Chakra around her blade, but this time she let it drift as she swung it, creating a sort of pseudo-afterimage. Now this, she thought, probably had some really weird applications.
Post 1/1 for Thread Walking
And now for something completely different. There was some emphasis on stance preservation present in the style, but it seemed like those aspects of it were archaic, built on a foundation that was no longer there. She wondered what the style must've been like back under the previous generation of school heads, or maybe the one before. Well, she would've, if the combination of Yuishiki sharpening her focus and the Thread Walking training doing the same hadn't concentrated her to a point where there wasn't a single millidegree of variation in her posture.
Having gotten roughly halfway through the training regimen, Bast sheathed her sword and consulted the scroll once more. For hydration, she took several long, dispassionate gulps from her flask of tea.
Activations:
Yuishiki in effect; all post reductions converted to Bukijutsu. E: 3 (2 simple, 1 spiritual), Yuishiki, Tebanasu Fuuin. D: 3 (2 simple, 1 spiritual) C: 5 (1 simple, 2 spiritual, 1 complex, 1 training) B: 0 A: 0 S: 0
Chakra: 2155/2240 Stamina: 1305/1375
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Now properly hydrated, Bast continued her training.
Post 1/1 for Advance of Steel
The next technique according to the scroll was one which honed the mind and body. Not like Bast needed to hone her mind more at this point given how unbelievably focused she was, but she wanted to learn it. She burned her energy and made herself stronger and faster. It was neat.
Post 1/1 for Brush Stroke
More focus. Focus, focus, focus! Bast focused on the concept of the blade strike, drawing out some of her Chakra to make that a reality. Her blade positively sang with it. It felt fantastic, and every attack she made with it had added weight.
Post 1/1 for Disarming
And now the clone came onto the stage. At some point it had taken up training with her cestuses and had apparently worked something out with it in regard to the style. Still, she needed something to disarm, so she had it attack her with its sword and subsequently disarmed it with a swift swipe of the blade.
Post 1/1 for Hydra Strike
The hydra was something Bast had heard about a while back. It was a massive creature with multiple heads that came back twofold if cut off, or so the story went. She couldn't remember the details, or really any of the story; she was too busy striking a bunch of times with her sword like the book said to do.
Post 1/1 for Illusory Double
She wasn't sure what to make of Illusory Double, especially in light of Hydra Strike coming just before it in the scroll. She thrust her blade forward, then flickered the blade back and forth once to replicate a hidden second strike. The best part of the technique was that it wasn't Genjutsu, that it had an actual effect.
Post 1/1 for Swordslinger
And here she had a real oddball of a technique that emphasized having multiple weapons. She borrowed her clone's sword and switched between it and her own until it was almost second nature. It seemed like that implied the style was for any bladed weapon at all, which she realized might have been what her clone realized. Her gauntlets were bladed sometimes, after all.
Post 1/1 for Advanced Thread Walking
Sometimes, Bast realized, one had to just set up a wire running course. Sadly, hers was less than optimal because her wire had been snapped by the Snow Queen. As she finished running around on wires and taking swipes at her clone while doing so, she would've made a mental note to go to Takumi later if that weren't outside her current goal.
Post 1/1 for Crescent Block
"Curse defensive techniques!" the woman would've sworn if she in any way felt up to doing so. She had her clone take up an offensive position and attack. When it did so, she swept her blade around in a crescent and disarmed it.
Post 1/1 for Defense of Steel
Layer upon layer of Chakra she folded into her blade, creating a defensive wall. It was dense, even more so than usual. Dense enough, she realized, to serve as a steel defense against other steel.
Post 1/1 for Hilt Thrust
She liked this one. By charging Chakra into the end of her sword's hilt, she was able to explosively amplify the power of even a tiny tap with it. It was like Oukashou but for bladed weapons, which was nifty in her book. She had no idea how it would work with her gauntlets though.
Post 1/1 for Shearing
Skill was key here, she told herself. She needed to both charge the blade with Chakra and swing with so much finesse that the air sheared along its edge. For a few minutes she honed her mind before finally completing the task.
Post 1/1 for Moment of Steel
Almost before she knew it, Bast was coming on the end. By charging her body with Chakra and burning through her physical endurance, she would theoretically be able to force her body to act as a single unit and thereby streamline its processes, thus increasing her agility significantly. In practice, too, as it turned out. She briefly felt like she was Zhi again.
Post 1/1 for Movement of Steel
To say that this technique was fast was an understatement. As soon as Bast used it she had to stop herself from flying into the wall on the opposite side of the room, which was an interesting feeling. Even better, though it was draining, it seemed a bit more useful than Shunshin, though she wasn't exactly sure how.
Post 1/1 for Offense of Steel
And now this, the logical conclusion of Shearing, was finally in her grasps. After a few tries, she managed to start slicing things that were much farther away than usual. It seemed overall less useful and malleable than Ayametori, but maybe she was just super fond of that one.
Post 1/1 for Vorpal Blade
Snicker-snack went the vorpal sword, slicing through her clone like it was air. Sadly, she didn't have any armor to test the technique out on, but as her Yuishiki was fading away she managed to confirm her usage matched the one described in the scroll in every significant way. She'd have to work on her thumb placement.
As Yuishiki faded out, she began to pore over the info her clone had gathered working on its own. The blades of her cestus were, in fact, compatible with the majority of the techniques in the style. That could potentially be useful in the future, but she'd have to play around with it first. Even before that, though, she needed rest; her head was feeling a bit better, so she sat down to meditate and recover.
Bast took a deep breath and calmed herself. The minutes ticked past, draining away the last vestiges of her headache. Unnervingly, it also took with it some of the remembrance of the Jutsu she'd developed. Most alarmingly, Gunsei was all muddled. That wouldn't do, not at all.
Post 3/3 for Youton: Museibutsu Boufu [ Yang Release: Preservation of Inanimate Creation ]
It looked like part of the jumbled memory of Gunsei had resulted in it getting broken down into its constituent pieces. She made what she thought was the hand sign for the jutsu, but nothing happened. Frustrated, she sat down and started drawing mock seals in the sand.
Was it meant to twist this way or that? Would her left middle finger need to bend at the first knuckle or the second, or maybe not at all? There wasn't a way to brute force a solution just by trying all the possible configurations of her fingers, so she needed to work out a solution theoretically and then convert it to practice.
The major problem with Gunsei was that as a written seal it was disgusting to look at. Sure, there was an elegance to it, but it was in essence three seals, which made things ugly. After a long time--perhaps hours--she derived a sealing formula that worked with her chakra network and managed to get the form sealing down.
Post 3/3 for Inton: Seibutsu Kouzennoki [ Yin Release: Vigor of Animate Creation ]
Yet another part of her memory soured with regard to Gunsei: the construction of the controlling mind. It wasn't something she'd ever been particularly good at, close as it was to Genjutsu, but seals were something she understood. It was like her strengths were outweighing her weaknesses.
There was something very personal about building a mind from scratch. It was like creating a child she knew she was going to outlived. By that token, how many children had she made and sent to their deaths?
These were questions she didn't particularly mind pondering, but they did raise an important overarching question: did these simple minds count as having their own lives? Was she a monster for directing their brief existences fulfilling her orders, or were they nothing more than tools? As she instilled the form she'd created earlier--a small ball with eleven eyes on it--with a mind, she dismissed her worries out of hand; after all, these things could simply process information and orders, having no independence outside of how they executed their directives.
Post 3/3 for Gunsei [ All Animate Creation ]
Perhaps that was the crux of the issue, though. As Bast worked out the joining seal that completed Gunsei, she wondered if creating an existence with even a modicum of intelligence just to answer to her whims was evil on some level. She didn't particularly want to try and work out a way to give them full freedom of thought and action, so was that omission also evil?
The integral part of linking mind and body was allowing the former to manipulate the latter, which was surprisingly difficult to write out such that it was robust enough to handle any orders she could throw at it. The seal was, after all, manipulating space based on an arbitrary set of commands generated by an artificial entity. That had to be heresy for most religions.
Relief finally came as she worked out the orientation of the last digit in the hand seal. At least this way she was able to function in her full capacity as a shinobi. Gunsei wasn't the sort of hting that should just be left alone, after all.
Her remembrance done, she sat to rest some more. Meditation was as calming as ever, perhaps even more so. A breath in, a breath out, and her mind was clear. Tranquility washed over her. She needed a bath, for sure, but this was fine too. Maybe she'd go home for one to check in on her cats now that the threat was gone. Shirayuki would've dropped them off and probably swept up whatever leftover glass was lying around after work.
Activations:
E: 0 D: 0 C: 0 B: 3 A: 0 S: 0
Chakra: 2240/2240 Stamina: 1375/1375
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How many scrolls had Bast grabbed? The world may never know! She started rifling through some low-level ones, hoping to round out her knowledge base.
Post 1/1 for Bikou Ninjutsu [ Shadowing Stealth Technique ]
Ah, the very basics: blending into a crowd to stalk someone. She hadn't used this technique in such a long time due to being a Kage that it had atrophied right out of her brain. Well, a quick trip outside and a skillful use of this technique and she was like a ghost in the daytime crowds. Maybe everyone was just ignoring her though, just like how they pretended not to know who Community-Minded Woman was.
Post 1/1 for Kakuremino no Jutsu [ Magic Cloak of Invisibility Technique ]
And now she had to hide. She busted back into the training grounds, grabbed her robes, and hid up against a wall. As she faded into the background, she wondered if this Jutsu would have trouble concealing especially large protrusions, like weapons, or Ayame's... She aborted that train of thought, suddenly paranoid that the current Kazekage could somehow detect her silliness at a distance.
Post 1/1 for Karakuri Hakke no Jin [ Mechanical Eight Trigrams Formation ]
For her next trick, the woman needed a volunteer drum and something to activate at a distance. She tossed a variable marble out into the room and used an overturned bucket as a drum. The marble briefly flickered to life, but then died. The poor quality of the drum was clearly at fault, so she returned it to the maintenance closet from whence it came.
Post 1/1 for Kawanuke no Jutsu [ Escaping Skill ]
And now for a slow, methodical jutsu, one which would allow her to escape custody should her superhero persona run afoul of the law. For a few minutes she wrestled with some wire to tie her hands together, then used Chakra to gradually undo the knot. Just like that, she was free of her bindings!
Post 1/1 for Kekkai Massatsu no Jutsu [ Barrier Shatter Technique ]
Ah, the good old "Barrier Shatter Technique", the bane of many a seal user's existence and yet so rarely used in favor of bolder tactics. One barrier later and the technique was learned. Ideally she'd find someone else to work with to enhance the strength of this technique, but that required Korabo.
Post 1/1 for Oiroke no Jutsu [ Sexy Technique ]
And what light through yonder window broke! Was it a fair maiden or a peevish purveyor of perversion? Was it a villainess clad in naught but the faintest wisps of fabric to titillate the senses? Well, it would've been if Bast cared at all. Instead she just transformed into the model depicted in the scroll and moved on.
Post 1/1 for Tanukineiri no Jutsu [ Feigning Sleep Technique ]
Sleep felt nice. "Feigning" or not, Bast needed a nap. That stood even if the nap only lasted until she started falling over, since at that point she snapped out of it and caught herself at the last second.
Post 1/1 for Kawara Shuriken [ Roof Tile Shuriken ]
In and out over and over, Bast now found herself on top of the building. With a couple of hand signs, she lifted some roof tiles and launched them a short distance. Just to be respectful for the working shlubs who had to pick up after the Village's antics, she made sure to put them back when she was done.
Post 1/1 for Youji [ Toothpick ]
The best Bast could do for this one was stick a senbon in her mouth like some sort of delinquent child who wanted to "stick it to the man" without knowing who exactly "the man" was and thus lashing out indiscriminately at every authority figure in their life. She spat it at a target. It hit. Good times were had by all, except for whoever was the nearest authority figure. Wait, that was her. She didn't enjoy herself retroactively.
Post 9/9 for Korabo Ninjutsu [ Collaborative Ninjutsu ] (Self, E-S)
Finally, at long last, Bast came to perhaps the meatiest of the basic training she would have to endure. Collaboration required a partner, so she made a Shadow Clone. Setup done, the two of them collaborated an Ayametori and a barrier to make a cutting wave that left a barrier in its wake.
Ramping things up, the two of them combined Suiyaku Kaze and Sekkai Saka. A mound of earth popped out of the ground and started hovering before her very eyes. She tried to hop on it, but it drifted in the other direction then tumbled to the ground.
More, she needed more! She and the clone collaborated Furyuu and Daitoppa. A dragon formed around her that spat out powerful gusts of wind, which was about what she'd hoped for.
Now that she was getting into higher levels of Jutsu, Bast had to make sure she wasn't pointing herself at anyone. Facing toward a very extremely vacant section of the building, she collaborated Atsugai and Dorou Doumu. When the former exploded, the latter rose up to contain the blast and any theoretical suckers in the area.
Wareme Souzou and Kazekiri were very different techniques. That, of course, was why she immediately combined them as soon as she could. The blade of wind hit the ground and split it in two with a very satisfying sound.
For the grand finale, she had to come up with something amazing. Preferably it wouldn't also destroy the building, but she'd just put a chasm in the ground, so maybe she shouldn't have been picky. Why did everything have to be so fragile at this scale?
She decided on a way to counteract her earlier destruction. Once again she would use Ayametori, but this time she'd combine it with Uitenpen. The positive side of that combination was that it was almost self-canceling.
The undirected Uitenpen just made a giant hill of earth, which was roughly what she needed to repair her earlier destruction. With the precision of a surgeon going in toward a thick, juicy vein, she leveled her wire toward the chasm. Then she and her clone fired.
The effect was honestly very pretty, she thought. It was a fat sheet of stone and dirt hurtling toward the pit. Ultimately, it filled it nicely.
Post 1/1 for Shinkūken [ Vacuum Sword ]
With a high-five for her clone, she dismissed it and moved on. For this next parlor trick, she drew her sword and made a hand seal. Swinging it produced a burst of wind perfect for stopping projectiles or flipping the beards of annoying geezers.
Post 1/1 for Tobidougu Soujuu no Jutsu [ Projectile Control Technique ]
To round out the basics of Fuuton, she moved on to this last little technique: Projectile Control. With a lazy chuck of a coin and a hand seal, she finished learning the technique. The coin flew back to its brethren without her needing to touch it like a filthy commoner (as she imagined Tetsu's family said on occasion while using magnetism to complete all transactions).
Post 1/1 for Doton Bunshin no Jutsu [ Earth Clone Skill ]
Earth Jutsu were fun, she thought. They were almost her favorite, though the apple of her eye was always Fire, even if she couldn't do them. The Earth Clone she made was really good for commiserating for the few seconds it was alive.
Post 1/1 for Iwa Tounyuu no Jutsu [ Rock Throw Technique ]
She picked up a rock and hurled it at her clone. It didn't die, but it did get offended enough that she ended its short existence. Some people just weren't cut out to have rocks chucked at them.
Post 1/1 for Ishi Yoroi no Ude [ Stone Bracers ]
For that matter, she needed protection from rocks herself. She shoved her arms into the ground and came up with a couple of bracers on. They were heavy, though, so she ended the Jutsu just as soon as it began.
Post 1/1 for Suna Moji [ Sand Characters ]
Writing was fun, or at least it wasn't boring when she wasn't doing paperwork. Now she had a jutsu that let her do it thirty characters at a time anywhere she wanted that wasn't clean. Sure, it had tactical applications, but now she could send inflammatory messages in a discreet manner to her squad members! For fun, she covertly formed words at Tetsu's feet that read: "Whoever reads this is silly!"
Post 1/1 for Tsuchi Gunjikoudou no Jutsu [ Earth Military Movement Technique ]
Relaxation time came and went as Bast did a backstroke through some solid earth. There weren't many places to go swimming nearby outside the baths and going to Saraswati usually meant she was going on business rather than leisure, so she very rarely got to enjoy herself like this. Pity the ground wasn't so cool and refreshing.
Once again, the woman sat down to meditate. She was starting to get really hungry, so she might send someone out for food soon. The meditating helped her effective energy reserves, but it didn't help with how famished she was getting. Peace and quiet permeated her mind. All was calm, all was relaxing, all was quiet. Not in reality, of course--that stuff still sucked--but meditation was good for the soul.
Making his way into the dojo he approached the head instructor with a smile and returned the mans bow with one of his own,"I would like to make use of the third room please and thank you. My students will be following after me shortly." With that he headed to the third training room. Once inside he took off his boots, pulled both his quivers from his thighs, set down his warbow onto them and unstrung it. Finally he pulled the relic from his belt and set it onto the tops of his boots. While he waited for his students he began to stretch and prepare himself.
[ o ] Chakra : : 2934 / 2934 x [ o ] Stamina : : 2934 / 2934 x [ o ] Sage : : 000 / 967x [ o ] Ryo : : 71,300 x [ o ] AC : : 70150 x [ o ] Buki / Blood x [ o ] Jinchuriki x [ o ] A - Rank Sannin x [ o ] Suna x [ o ] Kaguya x [ o ] Ninshuu Sage xxx
> Iron resiliency: The user has gone through tough enough training, being roughed up and moved around in armor to understand what it feels like. The user's fortitude is mildly increased. > Iron Disciple: The user, through hours of intense training in multiple bad scenarios, has learned the old saying of “to kill with one punch.” Because they do not want to find themselves outnumbered, or maybe for pure enjoyment sake, the user is able to hit with great intensity when striking a foe, focusing on tension, grounding, stability, and strength at the impact sight. The user's striking strength is mildly increased. > Swift Foot: A well trained individual is usually faster than an untrained individual, and the practitioners of the Iron Fist understand this fact more than anyone. However, those of the Iron fist not only accomplish this boost of speed….they also do it in armor! The user is now unaffected by the additional weight of armor (to a logical limit), and when the user is out of armor, their body and technique speed is greatly increased at the loss of the protection. They are much more adept at bursting into action, going from standing to 100% in single moments. Conversely, the user can now perform these techniques without needing armor. Must relearn every technique at half the learning cost to perform techniques without armor to learn the different distances and timing of the techniques. Overrides restriction. > True Belief: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered. > Satori [ Enlightenment ]: Meditation and spiritual exploration and understand yields interesting results. Due to the greater understanding of the self, the user is more aware of the connection between their mind, body and spirit, and how to utilize that connection. The user is now slightly more skilled at just about everything. Striking, blocking, moving, absorbing, and taking damage. The user's strength and fortitude is increased heavily. > Offensive Style: Knife Stances: The user becomes more accustomed to upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions. Speed of all Bukijutsu employing small arms is mildly increased. > Offensive Style: Simple Play: With this training, the user is able to more comfortably switch between upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions in a pinch. The user's reflexes are mildly increased. > Trick Style: Knife Toss: The practitioner has developed a greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the hilt with ease. Confers a slight reflex bonus to the practitioner. > Offensive Style: Artless Draw: The practitioner has better developed their ability to pull their blade straight from its resting place to an offensive slash. Slightly increases the speed of strikes made when drawing a small weapon. > Trick Style: Retreating Feet: The practitioner, already acquainted with many techniques in the style, has finally realized that with a little bit of personal training, they are able to increase the precision and speed at which they lift and press their feet. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. > Trick Style: Blade’s Edge: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the tip with ease. Additionally, some projectiles, such as shuriken or kunai, can be caught by their tip. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. > Offensive Style: Stepless: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. > Offensive Style: Mistborn Stepping: Silent, swift, and sharp. The practitioner is able to creep about at a decent pace while making close to zero noise. While moving through an area where cover or some obscuring factor is present (buildings, people, fog, etc.), the practitioner gains a moderate bonus to speed and reflex. > Skill: Multitasking: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. > Skill: Manipulation: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. > Skill: Adaptability: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping.
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Current Stats
Speed: Double Supremely Increased [ +12 ] xx Strength: Heavily Increased [ +4 ] xx Relfex: Double Supremely Increased [ +12 ] xx Fortitude: Supremely Increased [ +6 ]
Masato arrived just behind his teacher. He entered the dojo, bowing as he did. As he stepped onto the dojo floor he paused. When had he learned that custom? He couldn't remember ever bowing. Ever thinking about customs. Ever caring. Winds of change were blowing.
Nariomi sensei began his stretches. Masato raised an eyebrow. " If you gotta prepare then I feel like this may be more fun that I first thought." He stated excitably. He then began doing his own vigorous stretching.
Taylor was guided inward as he arrived. Apparently Nariomi had gotten ahead of them and gave instructions to the doorman. Taylor bowed to the man who told him where the room would be as he took off his chain scythe from his belt and removed his shoes at the door. He entered and saw his teacher stretching. Taylor had not done so in a while, so out of mimicking behavior he performed the same antics.
Chakra: 826 Stamina: 881 Techniques Used: Stats: Strength: Genin +2 ll Fortitude: Genin ll Speed: Genin +1 ll Reflexes: Genin +7 Passives: Electric Resistance Training: E-ranked One with the Chain: E-ranked Minor Control: D-ranked Pivot: C-ranked Quick Step: B-ranked Korabo: S-ranked with himself and Taylor Horus Chakra: 826 Stamina: 881 Techniques Used: Strength: Genin ll Fortitude: Genin ll Speed: Genin ll Reflexes: Genin Passives: Electric Resistance Training: E-ranked Korabo: S-ranked with Taylor
Once the two had finished stretching and warming up he would begin,"The style I am going to teach you gives both of you what you need. Presence, and finesse respectively. This is not meant for heavy massive punches but control. Apply your will upon your enemy and you will succeed every time." With that he would go through each and every technique and kata within the style one at a time to ensure they learned it to his standard. Stopping and repeating them moves where needed and congratulating them where appropriate.
[ o ] Chakra : : 2934 / 2934 x [ o ] Stamina : : 2934 / 2934 x [ o ] Sage : : 000 / 967x [ o ] Ryo : : 71,300 x [ o ] AC : : 70150 x [ o ] Buki / Blood x [ o ] Jinchuriki x [ o ] A - Rank Sannin x [ o ] Suna x [ o ] Kaguya x [ o ] Ninshuu Sage xxx
> Iron resiliency: The user has gone through tough enough training, being roughed up and moved around in armor to understand what it feels like. The user's fortitude is mildly increased. > Iron Disciple: The user, through hours of intense training in multiple bad scenarios, has learned the old saying of “to kill with one punch.” Because they do not want to find themselves outnumbered, or maybe for pure enjoyment sake, the user is able to hit with great intensity when striking a foe, focusing on tension, grounding, stability, and strength at the impact sight. The user's striking strength is mildly increased. > Swift Foot: A well trained individual is usually faster than an untrained individual, and the practitioners of the Iron Fist understand this fact more than anyone. However, those of the Iron fist not only accomplish this boost of speed….they also do it in armor! The user is now unaffected by the additional weight of armor (to a logical limit), and when the user is out of armor, their body and technique speed is greatly increased at the loss of the protection. They are much more adept at bursting into action, going from standing to 100% in single moments. Conversely, the user can now perform these techniques without needing armor. Must relearn every technique at half the learning cost to perform techniques without armor to learn the different distances and timing of the techniques. Overrides restriction. > True Belief: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered. > Satori [ Enlightenment ]: Meditation and spiritual exploration and understand yields interesting results. Due to the greater understanding of the self, the user is more aware of the connection between their mind, body and spirit, and how to utilize that connection. The user is now slightly more skilled at just about everything. Striking, blocking, moving, absorbing, and taking damage. The user's strength and fortitude is increased heavily. > Offensive Style: Knife Stances: The user becomes more accustomed to upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions. Speed of all Bukijutsu employing small arms is mildly increased. > Offensive Style: Simple Play: With this training, the user is able to more comfortably switch between upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions in a pinch. The user's reflexes are mildly increased. > Trick Style: Knife Toss: The practitioner has developed a greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the hilt with ease. Confers a slight reflex bonus to the practitioner. > Offensive Style: Artless Draw: The practitioner has better developed their ability to pull their blade straight from its resting place to an offensive slash. Slightly increases the speed of strikes made when drawing a small weapon. > Trick Style: Retreating Feet: The practitioner, already acquainted with many techniques in the style, has finally realized that with a little bit of personal training, they are able to increase the precision and speed at which they lift and press their feet. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. > Trick Style: Blade’s Edge: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the tip with ease. Additionally, some projectiles, such as shuriken or kunai, can be caught by their tip. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. > Offensive Style: Stepless: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. > Offensive Style: Mistborn Stepping: Silent, swift, and sharp. The practitioner is able to creep about at a decent pace while making close to zero noise. While moving through an area where cover or some obscuring factor is present (buildings, people, fog, etc.), the practitioner gains a moderate bonus to speed and reflex. > Skill: Multitasking: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. > Skill: Manipulation: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. > Skill: Adaptability: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping.
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Speed: Double Supremely Increased [ +12 ] xx Strength: Heavily Increased [ +4 ] xx Relfex: Double Supremely Increased [ +12 ] xx Fortitude: Supremely Increased [ +6 ]
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None Currently
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Kondo Kaicho
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:11 pm
Karuto walked into the dojo, a place he was very familiar with, and inhaled deeply 'Ah yes- wood floor polish and sweat. Honey, I'm home' He thought to himself, grinning at the familiarity of it all. Karuto spotted Masato, Taylor and that new Sannin bro, Naomi? Nari...romi? It was something like that. He waved the matter of the old man's name aside and crossed the dojo to the punching bags nearby. He began to work it over, striking it multiple times. As he did so, he increased the power of his Kaiser Armor for split seconds before his hits, feeling the increased power the Bolstering Armor gave him. It was exhilarating. With one final punch, he tore the punching bag clean in two. "GAH! Wait, no!" Karuto scrambled to catch the sand falling from the now ripped bag, but only served to spread it's contents out further. Just as he was attempting to gather it up, he heard a very loud and audible throat clearing and foot tapping. Turning around, he saw the crossed armed manager of the dojo looking none too happy about the destruction. Karuto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly and reached for his wallet "Hehe, sorry about that mister!"
As he was paying for the broken bag, he looked over the man's shoulder and caught sight of the trio going through the motions of the Hsing-I Pakua, albeit the more rudimentary stages of it. Interesting. So, Masato was expanding past just the Eight Gates huh? About damn time.
Masato would follow Nariomi's guidance... He would train the first several techniques of meditation with some difficulty. He was not accustomed to meditation but he would do his best. He focused on the elements of fire, then earth, water, wood and metal. After several hours, he would have finally learned the concept of each element, learning to utilize their essence in his taijutsu. [ Learned stage 1 w/ 5 free training posts.]
His next technique would be a striking move. Masato compressed his body to become as small as possible. In one quick flightly step, Masato would strike the target before him with the back of his fist and twist his hips to gain maximum speed. [ Coiled Snake ]
Masato sunk his body by bending their knees, while at the same time lifting a single knee about chest level. Shifting their hips forward like in a pendulum motion, Masato quickly extended his leg in a powerful front kick aiming for the target, quickly followed by another kick by jumping forward with the back leg. Masato would realize that this was a technique is very easily followed up by “Coiled snake”. [Extending Rooster]
Masato would imagine he would need to scoot back, just out of the way of an incoming taijutsu or bukijutsu attack. The following action would be to seemingly bounce back towards the opponent. Using a strong palm strike, either to clear the attack out of the way or as a preemptive strike to loosen up the enemy, Masato then pushed the offensive and closed the distance, allowing him to gain control of the flow of battle. [ Withdrawing Bear, Shocking then following ]
Masato brought one hand up, like a bird looking at its wing, while at the same time putting the other hand down at the ground like a bird hovering over a kill. Turning at the hips, Masato created a defensive barrier that could potentially parry most attacks. The spanning hand would handle everything up top, the turning hand covering everything low. After the deflection, Masato would be free to attack his foe once more. [Phoenix Spanning and Turning ]
Masato then opened his hips by rotating his front foot out. Then sinking, pivoting, twisting and shifting his hips, Masato was capable of unleashing a powerful torquing round house kick, aiming for the leg to cripple or off balance the opponent. Following with a same side elbow to the back of the head, he would then drop the same elbow vertically into the shoulder, sweeping the enemy off the feet. This is easily followed by “Phoenix Launching and Hunting”. [Lion Sweeping and Chopping ]
Masato then learned to launch himself into the air towards the opponent, either over an attack or around it and crashes into them with a double knee strike either into the chest or into the head with enough force to knock the target down. Keeping contact, Masato follows the enemy down to the ground, and uses his knees to pin his opponent to the ground, like a bird hovering over a kill. Conversely, if the target is already on the ground, Masato could just simply drop the knees on them, and enter the position that way. From here, Masato could unleash a flurry of strike against the grounded foe. [Phoenix Launching and Hunting ]
Masato would lash out with a single hand, utilizing a chakra enhanced grip strength, and grabs anything he can get a hand on, torso, skin, limb, clothes. From here, the user can push, shove, and shake the enemy making sure to keep them off balance as they rain multiple strikes down on the enemy, utilizing his body and his limb as a rubber band to ferociously rain punches, elbows, or palms, wherever they can land them. The last strike is almost always a palm to the head, aiming to knock the enemy down. [Snake Entrapping and Striking ]
Masato shifted his hips in the direction of the target while performing a fast side kick aimed for either the leg or the torso of the target, striking them heavy to collapse the guard and compromise their frame. To follow this kick, Masato then rolled his hands to strike, trap and ensnare a guarding limb or to push and clear a weapon for just a second, then unleashes a quick but vicious uppercut into the chin or neck of the opponent. Doing so would incapacitate a foe or stun them long enough to follow up. [Unicorn Charging and Goring ]
Masato, at a close distance, parried away the opponents limbs or weapons while utilizing his own body to wrap up, pin, and immobilize the enemy. After striking twice, the use then aims to wrap around the enemies neck or limbs, constricting blood flow to make a fast choke out or trapping and immobilizing a limb to limit the opponents defenses, mobility, and counter attack potential. Weakness occurs after several seconds, unconsciousness shortly follows. [Python Wrapping and Constricting ]
Masato would channel some chakra through his body to vastly increase his monstrous strength for another instant. Once at a close distance, Masato would lift the enemy high over their head quickly, then turns the opponent and spikes them on their head in a very damaging body drop. The method in which this was done would allow armored opponents to even feel the power of the strike unhinged. [Dragon Raising Then crashing ]
Masato would then initiate a near instant burst of motion, unleashing a massive array of nine or ten "rolling" machine gun style punches to the opponent. This allowed him to keep a constant flow of strikes while impacting a single target, or changing targets every strike on the center line of the opponent. Hitting multiple points makes it more difficult to defend, but continually hitting a single point does massive damage, and Masato was all about damage. [Rushing Rooster ]
Masato was then taught to channel chakra into his palm and aims to strike their enemy in the torso. After allowing their hand to vibrate, by using chakra. The chakra displaced in the enemy will also vibrate, causing the enemies vision to go blurry as well as make muscle constriction difficult, for ten minutes, causing the victim to receive medical treatment. [ Vibrating Palm ]
Masato then coated his body in chakra, and utilizes it as a small propulsion system, with speed comparable to a shunshin, that quickly closes the distance between the user and the opponent. Masato would be close, a wave of dense chakra expanded from him/ Against an opponent of lesser rank, this blast could launch them off of their feet. Against a user of same rank, this blast off balances them and sends them stumbling. Against an enemy of higher rank it can simply move limbs, clear the weapon, and blind the person for a split second, offering a little opening. [Rushing Spirit ]
Masato, utilizing all the power their body can generate swings an open palmed claw strike for the opponent. This strike has enough power to send the enemy flying, and can easily knock out the enemy or incapacitate them if they are hit in the head. In fact, this swipe is so strong that, once chakra has been added to the technique, it can deflect ninjutsu of its rank and lower. [Bear Backing, Rocking, and Striking ]
Masato would then again meditate, gaining insight to the ways of the style... [ Battlefield Meditation [ with one training post ]]
Masato would utilize chakra, and send it to his own body. Doing so would eliminate the fatigue he felt, the exhaustion. Perhaps this would do him some good while using the gates, to keep him from tiring out mid stride? Hopefully so. [Invigorate ]
Masato positioned himself, and quickly issue a hard style counter attack to an attacking limb or weapon with any of their limbs to either block the incoming attack or to parry it away. With a perfect opening,masato attacked the opponent's joints on the attacking limb utilizing any strike they can, aiming for a quick hyper extension or a break, depending on the angle and direction of the incoming attack. If the enemy is utilizing a weapon, the user can utilize this technique to strip the weapon away, though this limits the actually damage done to the enemies limbs. Easily transitions to other techniques, conferring a moderate speed boost to any technique from this Style used after it. [Blocking Lion, Tearing Python ]
Masato would take a short breather before continuing to the final stage.
Masato continued the training regiment. Masato meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. He felt his body invigorated by enlightenment. [ True Belief ]
Masato stood, readying himself. He moved forward into the opponent, dropping low to the ground to gain more power as well as avoid any incoming attacks. Quickly exploding with all the power stored in his legs and executed a double rising uppercut into the chin of the enemy, hitting with enough force to send them slightly into the air. From here, Masato would learn to then "bounce' the enemy while they are in the air with 5-6 strong, vicious strikes to the gut, ending with a raising kick that turns the opponent so that they crash to the ground on their back with the foot stomping into their torso. [Entering Rising Dragon]
Masato, now enlightened to the forms and flows of combative chakra, would aimto defend against an incoming taijutsu or bukijutsu technique. By coating his defending limb in chakra, when the opponents strike hits Masato, it will feel like they lose all power in their strike. The user, absorbing the kinetic energy of the strike, then returns the energy to the opponent by utilizing a strike of their own, enhanced by Masato's own force and energy. By striking, Masato's chakra is extending in the form of chakra fist that extends for up to 20 meters. [ Kneading Unicorn ]
Meditation and spiritual exploration and understand yields interesting results. Due to the greater understanding of the self, Masato would become more aware of the connection between their mind, body and spirit, and how to utilize that connection. His connectivity to self would grant him increased ability in all forms of striking and the like, making him more self aware of his physical and mental capabilities [ Enlightenment ]
Rising, from his last meditative position, he turned to Nariomi. It had been several weeks. Masato had given his body and soul to complete this training. Not only had the training sharpened his fighting skills, his mind had become sharper. His entire thought process. Nariomi's teachings, day in and day out had pounded the hard lessons of life into the young man. The fledgling Uchiha who fought like a sledge hammer a mere four weeks prior, now held the disposition of a seasoned shinobi and expert martial artist.
" Nariomi Sensei, thank you. Without this guidance, I don't think I would have been able to develop into the shinobi I have become.." He stretched out his stiff shoulders from the hours of meditation. He had never felt so intune with the world. With himself. He felt a deeper connection to his surroundings than he ever could have begun to imagine.
The next step of the style was the infamous Liger Bomb. Picking the training dummy off of the ground, he raised it high above his head. With great effort, he tossed it onto the ground. The power made the rock below it shatter. A death sentence indeed.
The Kaiser Fist was next. A powerful, terrible, singular blow. Karuto brought his fist all the way back and paused for a moment, concentrating. Using all his might, he punched forward. The wooden wall he was striking exploded outwards. Interesting.
The last thing he was going to learn was the bulky punching method. Using all hig weight to power his blows. It was rather simple. This style was his favorite after all. Some people called it rigerous, he called it simple. After the training was done he took a short break to rest.
