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Ice is exactly the same, if not more so. A jeweler needs a special magnifying glass to find the faults in a crystal in order to cut it properly. With ice, any random dude with a pointy stick can jab it into a fault and split the whole thing open. I have done so, many, many, MANY times. My entire driveway freezes about four inches deep in ice every winter, and we have to bust it out. Ice is riddled with faults all over the place, allowing anything from a little two inch square, to a massive glacier to be busted loose with relative ease. Why do you think frozen places have so many hidden underground ice caves? Those are all the result of faults splitting the crust, and shifting the ice. Ice would never shift if there were no faults in it.

If you're going to talk about faults in something, there are far more in ice than there are in crystal.

Ahhh, But doesn't that ice have air pockets? Pure 100% ice, without air pockets is actually quite resilient. Take ice sculptures for example. You can chip a bit off, but it doesn't split. When they make things such as an ice swan that ice is so hard they have to use special tools, A Saw blade, that constantly shoots out a stream of water to cool itself, making it able to not over heat due to friction, and quite few other utensils. If you want extremely good details, You have to use an etching tool hich does the same thing, and then you have to use a heated peice of metal to rub on the etchings to make them rounded.

In short Pure ice without air pockets { Which I assume that is what Hyouton is } Is actually quite hard. And depending on it's temp it is exactly the same amount of hardness that deters modern oil rigs from reaching the oil under Siberia.

Also, On Crystals, Even though you need the magnifying glass to find the faults, once found they are easily used. Even diamonds have roughly a 100 newton breaking point along fault lines. { Or pascals, I forgot if Pascals is the SI unit for pressure. Newtons is force. }

And Pure ice actually functions as a magnifying glass. Mostly not to the extent that one would need to find faults on small gems, but still.

Not even for a fifty foot area? Taking the dimensions into thought, If a D ranked jutsu makes a 10x10x10, then that is 100 cubic feet. I would say a C, or even B ranked amount of chakra would work.

I know, But that last statement also leaves your side null and void, so why would I ever want to argue it? blaugh

I used ice sculpting because without the proper utensils, you can mess up and that happens. But that is the thing, You don't know where ice splits, or if you are even hitting the right spot. ^.^ Ice is unpredictable.

ANYWAYS!

I'm bored now T^T And Kenji needs to get Re-approved so I can learn some jutsu and get my mission points for the next Genin exams!

True, But you'd have to be an expert at it, and even Ice sculpters mess up from time to time. and if they sneeze, then it all goes to hell.

But the same can be said about almost anything. If you are sculpting marble and you hit it wrong you can split it. Even wood splits when hit just right.

Crystal you can just tell where to hit easily.

... Darn it! We need a subject change!

If I were to beat up a sound shinobi and steal a arm amp { Like Dosu's } Could I spend a Month IRL time learning how to fin tune my chakra to achieve an effect like Dosu?

Ignoring the top part of your post... blaugh

Well... If I fought one outside the village, and he used it on me, I'd be able to identify it. Although I don't think Kenji would think to take it with him... { atleast not until his Jonin rank change }

Also, About how long do you think until people like me will get a chance for a second Rpc? { Imma get my Kenji's Older than him Never going past genin Attendant one way or another. evil }

But... But...But... T^T I love that duo! At Jonin rank { Depending on if I play him a certain way } She gives him Pills he thinks are gormet candy that he takes only once a day, and they slack off his bloodlust. T^T And plus, I love her character, because she is like the character that seems to know almost everything, because she is 15, and became genin and a member of Kenji's squad 3 years ago. T^T She is so cool! { But without kenji to take care of, She is somewhat boring. }

If it is used against him, He could figure out it hurts really bad.

and I'm fairly sure that somewhere outside of Otogakure someone has written about it, and given extremely vauge descriptions of how to use it. although half of the month will be trial and error on the ones that aren't true, and based solely on conjecture.

Well, The more you say that, The More I feel Like getting rid of Kenji.

Because honestly I can't do s**t with him. Because there are almost NO non village specific Weapon styles, And guess what... I'm a Weapon Master, so even though I get the Extra weap styles, I CAN'T HAVE THEM.

My ice is able to be broken with someone flicking it, so if I were to even use it, Someone would break it just by letting it hit them.

Most I'd EVER be able to do with this shitty a** bloodline is merely at Kage rank freeze someone in FOUR POSTS. in Four posts someone would cut my arm off, because I can't let go, otherwise my jutsu is useless.