Since the trials at the temple, Zahara had been busy over the next few days upon his newly acquired freedom after the various ups and downs. Lately he had been making frequent trips down to the docks, one bit was to keep a change of scenery and time away for others. Lastly was for a ship that would be the center of his training exercises with a deal made with the owner of the vehicle. {1} It was less of a ship and more of a barge that was moored at the end of the docks but it would suit Zahara's purpose just fine after he kept his end of the deal. He wanted a secluded location to perform some of his training that was away from the general populace. Yet the issue was needing something still open and wide as to not damage something in the process and the answer was either out of the village or find a vacant lot. {2} Yet, a barge was enough to fit both criteria with the added bonus of still being close enough to the village after his training session. The catch was, Zahara made a deal to maintain the ship and do a few errands for the owner of the vessel in exchange for his temporary use of the barge. It was a fair trade, as he didn't have to endanger anyone recklessly with the explosive nature of his chakra and all he would need to do was maintain upkeep on the barge as well. {3} He spent most of the morning checking out the barge in detail after he spoke with its owner the day before. The barge itself was largely intact with bits of rust on its surface, with mostly superficial damage that didn't take much making repairs to. By mid afternoon a decent section of the barge itself was cleared of trash and refuse, the deck was cleaned off of sea bird s**t with the captain's quarters straightened up for regular use. It wasn't the best repairs but a sailor he wasn't and long as the boat kept afloat, he was golden with one task off his list for then. {4}
Any Hyuuga worth their salt was capable of utilizing the Byakugan and by extension were taught the basics of the Gentle Fist style. In principle, the ability was a simple transfer of chakra through the tenketsu to strike at the other tenketsu in a victim. This forceful exchange was what caused the ability to truly shine as it would disrupt the chakra network, closing and opening tenketsu in the body that would normally be left alone and this caused loss in their chakra as a result of this.
The more power transferred with the applied blow would mean a more crippling strike to the body, more chakra lost with a heavier impact on the chakra pool. The applications of the style were simple and with the chakra sight of the Byakugan, it was quite lethal by itself to be sure. With the gentle fist, those with lower chakra reserves were always in danger of suffering at the hands of a Hyuuga.
While disrupting the chakra flow was suitable for most situations but Zahara had uses for the style in other ways. In his time training, he began to develop a new way to utilize the energy transference differently than most other Hyuuga. Instead with the Byakugan targeting individual tenketsu in the body, the gentle fist strikes would instead be targeting the muscles and weaker points of the body to disrupt the stamina flow of a healthy body.
It followed the very same principle of the gentle fist in that it used the Hyuuga's own chakra to strike tenketsu. Instead here it used the energy to strike key locations to both fatigue and cripple the body in another body to shut down the muscles. While on its own the crippling blows were enough to give just another edge in melee combat despite the small influence it made.
Three blows landed in quick succession with the palm strikes upon the first two and a knife hand strike finishing a ramshackle dummy armed with scrap metal and a cast iron pan for a head. The chakra flowed from the tips of his fingers with the final strike as the blow sent the pan-head flying off with a echoing ring off the metal, too much strength put in and not enough finesse. Zahara spat at the deck as he retrieved the dummy's 'head' as he observed the dent in the metal with a scuff in the black soot. Not bad, the control is getting better but it's not there quite yet.
Three dummies composed of straw wrapped in tarp and metal refuse belted on with cords and scrap leather stood on the very far end of the barge. Each were paced out by twenty paces with a clear area around them of any collateral targets. Zahara stood down range from the targets as chakra flowed from his body and into the air as mud shot out from his hands and out across the barge itself to consume the three targets. The mud flow was forceful and quick, slamming into deck with considerable force and enough to rock the barge as the three dummies were covered up to about 'waist' high. Remnant of the jutsu spilled over the sides of the ship, large volumes of mud splashing into the water all around as more chakra churned through the new mess. One by one the dummies shook violently as the mud started to solidify locally around each as stalagmites grew out from muddy mess, rock spikes impaled each of the dummies several time like voodoo dolls as the jutsu went through with Zahara's arms moving, controlling the motion of the chakra as he did so with his fingers slowly closing into a fist as all the while the mud began to solidify around the dummies, slowly beginning to bury them as even the spikes crumbled and melted into a muddy consistency, adding to the growing mass. Soon the earthy mess of soil, rock and mud grew to a small hill the size of a small shack, ten feet high at its highest point.
"Consume." Zahara finally closed his fist as the Byakugan was fully active, seeing the massing pool of chakra he poured into the rocky creation with the volatile chakra mixing within from his bakuton element. He rose his hand and pointed it toward the creation and started to open his hand. "And expand." There was no warning for what came next as the entire earthy hill was set aglow with a white flash followed by an explosion that sent the mud up into the air. The blast was controlled through his chakra flow and aimed off in one direction to prevent its collateral damage to the docks but now several large chunks of rock went sailing off into the air. With the byakugan he could identify the position and location of each threatening chunk of earth. He curled one fist instead and took a deep inhalation to focus his chakra control as he threw a skyward punch. Vibrant chakra now vented out from his arm, flames flickering along his knuckles and the tenketsu points in the arm slightly aglow. As the mass of earth fell a comet of flame shot from Zahara's fist as it rapidly expanded as it grew in size, dwarfing the amount of debris there actually was as the comet of flame carried on as an expanding eruption of raw volatile chakra, the chaotic mix of Bakuton and the Hyuuga discipline involving the mountain crusher as Zahara perfectly combined the two into a single attack to create an even bigger eruption at a distance to engulf the falling earth.
It was all over within just under a minute of when it all went down, the explosive chakra fading off quickly as it was produced with small traces of the element sparking off in the air. Bits of pebbles, mud and dust fell all around like gull droppings but nothing harmful or too disruptive for the dock workers. Now clean up duty would most likely had to be assigned sooner or later, especially for the barge which was now caked in the excess mud.
- Target Practice x1 ~ 250 AC - Stress Test x4 ~ 800 AC || 400 Ryo
The mess the earth 'bomb' left was a complete catastrophe the more Zahara began to look through the Barge and the docks, mud was everywhere but no permanent or drastic damage had been done. Superficial damage if it was to say at best, maybe he had gone just a little overboard with trying out a new skill on the dummies. Even so, his new expertise over his chakra control was rather enlightening if risky to try and perform a second time. {!} The next hour or so he began to work his way on the docks with a pail and rag, cleaning off some of the other boats that were hit the hardest by the mud splotches. The process of cleaning was made quickly possible though with a rather simple technique to create doppelgangers, or rather the shadow clone technique. As such, before he had begun, Zahara waved his hands through a seal or two with a small flourish of his hands for personal show. {!} The clean up was soon over as the few dozen copies of the man were all simultaneously cleaning up the previous mess. With the multiple shadow clones, they all worked like a drone army as the actual Zahara remained up on the deck of the barge, giving directum to the clones as necessary. After proper clean up was done, they each poofed up and away as wisps of chakra one by one as they were no longer necessary for further use. {!}
A new practice session was just about time as a few new dummies were needed but he was feeling rather lazy to construct a few ramshackle, pan-headed dummies. Instead he wanted to go back to one of his older methods of training with clones. He weaved a few signs as he decided to explore a new element he had very little experience with as crackling lightning came alive. Static electricity arced off of the floor of the barge while it sparked and danced around Zahara body as he willed his chakra to life and now began to move his arms along the streams of energy, forcing it to follow his hands through chakra control. Static strings guided his electrical currents while a layer of chakra protected his body from the raw energy crackling around him as Zahara willed to life three doppelgangers from the energy he conjured up. // Lightning Clone, Electrical Resistance, Static Strings.
Before him were three relatively basic recreations of himself as the elemental chakra formed the clones and as he looked upon them with the Byakugan, they were merely hollow shells. Empty and devoid of anything significant other than a surface appearance yet they would serve just fine for a quick test of his own abilities. Growing more accustomed to the electrical chakra, Zahara began to wave his hand now and dropped the use of seals in order to quickly grow accustomed to performing the techniques with his motions alone. Lightning arced through his fingers as power flowed through his body the more he played with the energy as the light began to dim with the surge of the electrical energy and now Zahara flung his arm out toward one of the electrical shells he made. A blue stream of raw lightning flew out from his fingertips now as it struck true through the clone's head, dissipating it instantly as he prepared another bolt and this time he shot a wider bolt as a large five foot beam through the second clone as the electrical energy vaporized the clone's presence back into the air. Now finally with the next variant of the bolt was a yet another wave of the hand to create a continuous stream of electrical power arcing from the palm of the hand as the energy consumed the final bolt clone in the bramble of lightning tendrils. // Lightning Bolt, Beam & Blast
The smell of ozone lingered in the air after the electrical blasts were done being thrown around like javelins at hollow shells of chakra that were devoid of complex thought. Now Zahara sat on his knees as he maintained a meditative state, concentrating on his chakra within himself as he visualized deep within his mind just like he saw within the combat trial against Oracle. In the mindscape was the sandbar with ankle deep water, there he was resting upon his knees as he focused, the sky changing as he focused his mind as a serpent coiled around him, long forked tongue flicking out and now Zahara snapped his eyes back open and found himself back to reality. He was mid-sprint with the Byakugan active, the world a monochrome hue save for the colorations of chakra lighting up around his arm held off to one side as he closed the distance one one of his trademark ramshackle dummies. In his hand was the lightning crackling with a new intensity with a ear splitting shriek ongoing as Zahara lunged forward at the dummy with the electrical hand. Electrical tendrils arced and burned into the metal surface of the dummy's torso, his hand going completely through while his body now hummed alive with even more electrical energy as he was shrouded in the Chidori's energy into a new technique that composed of a shroud acting as an armor. Removing his arm now from the dummy, the target was being burned from both the chidori and now the new electrical currents began striking the dummy and in the meanwhile, Zahara's left hand charged yet another technique as a sphere formed and now he collided a third technique into the dummy and obliterated the target with the encircling sphere of electricity. // Chidori, Lightning Ball, Lightning Strike Armor
After the little episode of the earth mess all over the docks, Zahara had to come up with an alternative solution to any future attempts of mass scale techniques such as that. Instead he started to start the barge up from within the captain's corridors and unmoored the ship. Instead he was off to bring the barge out to open water, away from the docks to keep his explosive ninjutsu from destroying or harming the village itself. {!} Additionally he had a prior motive with a task he picked up from the office to investigate a sea creature giving a bit of trouble to the sailors. Navigating the large ship wasn't too difficult as he pulled the vessel out to the open water, turning the wheel and rudder as the creaky old tub made headway. Once he was out at open waters, Zahara went off onto the deck after slowing the barge to a stop and now anchor dropped and soon his training montage would resume once again.
The barge was far enough away from both the docks and the shoreline to keep a safe distance to start up practicing his explosive techniques while at the same time a precursor for the actual job he had taken. Zahara moved about the deck with a few shadow clones as well as they were working along the deck, doing a bit of cleaning and maintaining the barge. The entourage of clones made quick work of cleaning off the deck for sufficient use as Zahara began to make the final preparations for the training he was about to perform. {!} Soon they each disappeared in wisps of chakra, the clones no longer needed as they were each completed with their task as Zahara began to set up his gear for the day. A few kunai were lain out on a small cloth with a spool of steel wire strung through the rungs as a few tags were set up, bomb tags each with the single seal of 'explode' scrawled on them. The bomb tag string of kunai were prepped to flushing out the quarry out from underwater of which is where his job mentioned a troublesome creature giving trouble as of late posted by the captain of the very barge he was using. {!} He began more preparations with anticipation of the job as he set up a few precautions with a few ladders along the side of the barge itself in case he was to be exhausted of chakra. Finally he grabbed the coup de grace of the set up and it was a small bag of meat he gotten from a butcher before setting out as he tied a bomb tag to it and when primed it would erupt, spreading the contents of the bag. He dusted himself off as he hauled the kunai bundle to the edge of the boat, placing gear down and sat at the edge, pondering his next move. {!}
Zahara stood upon the edge of the Barge as he stripped off the coat and tunic he wore so he was bare from the waist up save for the bandages still wrapped around his scarred arm. Looking out at the ocean water with his normal sight, all he could see was the calm waters without so much as a ripple of activity indicating anything was beneath its surface. He coiled the string of kunai over his shoulder like that of a bandolier, each metal tool attached to a bomb tag which would be fundamental in fishing out the target he was after. It was here there been a troublesome shark of sorts, one that preyed on fisherman's lines, hauls and harassed boats, a rather large one dwelling in the water's and the task indicated the creature was last seen near the rocks of where he had the barge anchored nearby. {!} He held the bag of butcher meat, low quality and still bloody, which would serve as the bait for drawing out anything that fed on fresh meat and that would include other sharks not on his list to hunt. It was a principle of Zahara's to not harm the other local wildlife in the sea, as instead he had plans to make full use of his Byakugan with his other traits. Yet the first thing that had to be done was to set the bait and get the ambush ready for the beast of the sea, as he suspected the creature would not prove easy to tackle {!} In some twisted way Zahara saw this hunt as a potential training exercise, a baptism by the trial of ordeal and struggle and the test of his ability to take on an apex predator of the sea. Along the water's edge he walked slowly as he was now a considerable distance away from the boat, still carrying the canvas sack of bait as he looked for an idea spot to release it. But soon he found an area further away from the barge in a cluster of rocks with a shallow sandbar that'd serve some use for himself and he released the bundle of meat with the explosive tag. {!} A large bang rippled under the water, causing a torrent to spout out from its surface, chunks of meat scattering through the air as the sea water began to turn red with the meat sack's contents spreading. The explosion was muffled under the water's surface yet the spout it created was considerable in size as it easily dwarfed Zahara as he stood on the water's surface a good twenty feet away as he observed the effects of his bait put to work as he begun to wait. Fish had started to swarm over the area after a few minutes while Zahara shifted his position to up on one of the rock croppings as he waited for a chance to dive in once the sharks began to appear with the feeding frenzy beginning... Now Zahara jumped in after them, Byakugan active and a kunai strung with steel wire thrown in as well. The hunt began.
Dive Team || C-Rank || 400 AC ~~ 200 Ryo {4 Posts}
Who in the right mind jumps into a feeding frenzy of sharks armed with nothing but a few bomb tagged kunai, fists and steel wire? The maniac would be only Zahara as he leaped from his perch upon the rock spire that jutted out from the water. In mid air he threw a kunai with a line of steel wire strung around the rung of the tool and let the blade pass underwater until it struck the seabed. With chakra flowing from his hand holding onto the line as the projectile embedded itself into the seabed, Zahara activating the reeling technique to zip to where he had thrown the weapon as a aid to move underwater.
As he zipped through the cold water, through the byakugan, Zahara observed each of the sharks that had gathered from deeper waters to around his bait already and saw most were of different species. From his new position while the sea water began to make his eyes water, he screwed them shut and relied only on the radial sight the eyes provided him to track his intended target. It was to be a bull shark with scarred fin, larger than most of the others and a few smaller details that would be absent among the others in the frenzy.
It hadn't taken long for the other sharks to scatter once the initial bait began to spread over the area. Fish were being fed on that were also attracted to the meat with a few sharks giving attention to himself as well. With chakra surging through his body, Zahara relaxed himself as he let the focus of his will calm the nerves as he released a technique just as the gaping maw of a shark crunched down to where he was. At the last moment, he flicked out from view with the shunshin ability, moving unerringly across the open water with increased speed as he sought to keep distance from the feeding frenzy. With a handseal, Zahara activated one of the bomb tag kunai he left behind just prior to the body flicker, letting the explosion go off as a shockwave caused a ripple through the water to scare off some of the sharks that swarmed his former location and to send them into a stir.
The actual potency of the bomb tag wasn't enough to kill or maim the sharks nearby as he kept the chakra limit to a minimum behind the technique, but now he tossed another kunai up toward the rock. As the same as before, Zahara kept up the Byakugan as he continued to observe the sea of carnivores tearing across the waters as he moved back and forth with the reeling technique with his kunai, occasionally resurfacing to get air and then diving back in to stay within the thick of the action. He used the tree climbing technique itself to move along the sea floor once he identified his mark and he couldn't believe his own Byakugan.
Feeding was over as the largest shark of the pack came from the sea, and... it began a hunt of the other sharks and moved frighteningly fast as massive jaws crunched down on one of the smaller ones. Cripes... That's a big... The air escaped his breath as the beast twisted its head, ripping the smaller shark into giblets as its attention was turned toward Zahara himself. He could see the creature's gaze turn toward him with the byakugan and instinctual fear crept over his heart as the beast was at least double the size of the largest from within the feeding pack. Yet however, the fear spurred excitement and a battle lust within the Hyuuga as he clenched his fists, pushing off of the sea floor with the body flicker technique to propel him through the water. In mid motion as Zahara torpedoed through the sea, he ceased the facade of the shunshin and quickly created a shadow clone off to his side and passed one of the kunai strung with wire to it as the giant beast closed in and the real Zahara closed right in with it.
With an outstretched fist, chakra glowed around the knuckles as the monstrous shark's mouth was agape, ready to gulp him in two. Chew on this you b*****d! An eruption detonated as Zahara force fed the delightful b*****d an explosive blast to make it think twice. The specialized blast was one of the weaker eruptions Zahara possesed yet it was one of the few that had an intentional effect to kick him backwards in equal to the force generated as he rocketed back toward the sea floor. The monster shark itself meanwhile had been stunned by the unexpected meal of explosives and now the clone hurled the same kunai into the beast as it shook off its disorientation. A direct hit and the fish was on the line as the clone dispersed and the next part of the plan was coming together.
Onto the sea floor again, Zahara used his string reeling technique as the kunai was embedded into the beast and this was used to his advantage. He anchored himself to the sea bed now and began to reel in the monster shark to where he was as a plan was developing in the back of his mind. The monstrous shark pulled and tugged on the steel wire and Zahara knew it wouldn't hold the beast for hold but he just needed it to be held in place just for a moment. Soon the line snapped and he released the line with the shark moving away, shaking itself to turn away from the Hyuuga. While he had been reeling the beast in Zahara gathered chakra through his body and now he dug his hands into the earth as he exerted control over the rock and pulled his arms up with a wide arc with each limb to end with a clap above his head. As he performed this motion, the sea-floor shook violently as several stalagmites grew out from the ground and flew up through the water as the monster shark was still within range of his jutsu. Blood turned the water a deep black and red as six spears of earth skewered the shark, pushing into the beast as the apex predator had been impaled yet still thrashed about. Hands still clapped together, Zahara lowered them to just at his jaw level as he kept control over the rock technique and now mixed in the volatile chakra of his bloodline.
With a swipe now, he brushed off his hands and threw both off out to his side as the second half of his technique took place as the water shook violently with the spontaneous eruption of several explosions fixated onto the shark. Each of the earthen spears were infused with the bakuton chakra at their very tip and now each went off as a spectacular underwater symphony of rock-based fireworks complete with white hot flashes of volatile energy. Now the eruptions ceased as the sea grew red with the chum that still remained from the bait, it was all silent once more as the Hyuuga rose back to the surface, head breaking the surface with a deep inhale to savor the fresh air. Back onto the solid rock, Zahara sat at the water's edge as he watched the body of his mark float to the surface and he chuckled. Fitting kill for him, he thought with a smile.
Pest Control ~~ C-Rank 400 AC 200 Ryo & Performance ~~ C-Rank 400 AC 200 Ryo
The giant beast of a shark was crushed, impaled and blown up at the end of the little short hunt with a great deal of sea still turned red. Scavenger animals had begun to populate the site of the little 'battle' with with the gulls and smaller fish coming to feed on what scraps of what been left of Zahara's bait and chunks of the mega-shark after the eruption. He had removed the creature from the sea after returning to the barge, using a combination of the remaining kunai he possessed and the steel wire to reel the beast in. | At the boat itself he had access to a few more specialized tools that were left upon the sides of the vessel as he chucked three harpoons into the carcass. With the assistance of the larger rope and tools, the retrieval of the shark's body was made effortless as it hadn't taken more than a few minutes to haul its body up and onto the deck of the barge. Its jaw remained agape, eyes already glossed over in death with six large puncture wounds through its body that been ruptured from the earthen spears' contact so much so it was missing a length of its tail and a fin. | The last of the clean up wouldn't take long as it was a matter of preparing the carcass for the captain to see proof of the creature's resulting death and he created a few clones for the final preparations. The small army of doppelgangers swarmed the deck as the shark carcass was secured to the deck itself with tarp underneath its body and rope to secure it in place as the barge was prepped to return to the dock. All in all the success of the hunt was a passable effort as Zahara piloted the vessel and saw his clones again dissipate one by one as each of their own tasks were completed. // Clean Up Detail | D-Rank
The barge itself was a bit of a mess after he loaded up the shark carcass with his clone army entourage. Along the way back to the docks the clones were recreated, less in number now as Zahara ordered three doppelgangers to assign to a few tasks. The deck needed to be cleaned off, ropes hauled in and the quarters straightened out before return. | The deck was a mess of the shark's blood and some bits of its body sloushing with the sea water on deck. The clone assigned to the task quickly gotten together a few buckets and filled them with loose refuse. A few scrubs with a deck brush, the stains cleaned off of the barge and kept to a code set by the owner of the vessel. Finally the shark's body itself was more securely wrapped in tarp and rope to prevent more of a mess from the body. | The second clone moved about on the deck to retract the various ladders set over the sides before Zahara had set out. These had been a mere precaution so he would be able to board the boat once again should he had been exhausted of his chakra to walk along the water's surface. While there wasn't much else to secure on deck, the clone did coil the ropes as appropriate and reset the positions of the harpoons, cleaning off some of the gunk from when they've been hurled into the shark. | The captain's quarters was a simple clean up as the clone tasked there moved about to keep it tidy and neat, there hadn't been much else to keep track other than so. Zahara's clones soon poofed one by one as he turned into port, moving the barge into position as he went out onto the deck. The anchor was dropped and now the vessel was shut down as according to its guidelines and finally moored to the docks. The large barge was back in port and had a gift wrapped mega-shark for his client even, what a way to get some training in. // Maintenance - D Rank
From around the corner Zehara would hear a group of people discussing something hush hush. If he activated his byakugan, then he would see in black and white fashion that the three people were adorned in strange robes. One word was audible, however. "Serpent." The three left and went down into a cellar like area. He would then find that the pathway led to where a group of twelve of these robed fellows would be talking around a round table.
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 12:03 am
Zahara Half-Blood Hyuuga
... I am the Flame of the North ...
It had been a few hours now he returned from out from the sea, the mega-shark was cashed in for the captain's pest control task and Zahara weighed the coin he now had fresh in hand. Not bad for a day's work... He thought in the back of his mind as he pocketed a bundle of the cash in his jacket and let out a heavy sigh. While the small excursion was welcome, he had done what the lady kage had asked of him to freshen up on his skills. For a bit he browsed about the docks and came upon a few ol' shifty fellers he happened upon. A few were decked out in robes were moving along as he caught wind of conversation that was off, bits of he caught on enough to know they weren't workers or sailors. Special operatives? No. He hadn't seen them in robes such as that.
Curious, Zahara tailed them for a time until they rounded a corner and he stopped there, pressing himself to the wall. Breathing in, chakra flowed to his sight as the world of color drained away to be replaced with the bleak monochromatic vision with the glow of chakra. His eyes were closed as he took in his surroundings, scanning the area that the Byakugan gave true sight to in his mind's eye as he observed the initial three robed ones speaking again, hushed tones and it took some strain of the ears to try and pick up on what was being said. The harsh syllables of the word serpent was said just enough for him to hear, with his radial sight of the Byakugan he continued to observe each they left and a descent began into a subterranean area - a cellar or basement - with more of the same style of garbed folk gathered around a table.
Zahara ceased his Byakugan as the pain crept in his head at the threat of a migraine again. Zahara stepped out from around the corner, eyes open as they were back to their normal amber hue. It was strange as he thought on it, briefly considering to brazenly walking down the path but he withheld a moment to consider the options. What was the reason for the three to be both robed and quiet with their conversation, additionally hearing serpent for the third time since the trials had him slightly irritated at coincidence.
He stood there at the corner for the time being and decided to have his best course of action was to wait. Rather he was going to play an academy favorite and embrace his inner chameleon as the chakra swirled through his body and he weaved a single sign. Poof With the transformation jutsu the scarred eye Hyuuga was now the tactical espionage secret weapon.
A cardboard box.
He sat there, in his false guise as a profession inanimate object and watched, waited and kept the attention on the path way from where he first witnessed the robed ones descended. Lacking a reason to stumble down where they were, he felt it best to stake it out.
One of the cultist saw the box and grew extreme caution. "Did we always have the cardboard box here?" The younger voice asked. It was then that one of the more senior members yelled at him. "How dare you pay attention to something so benign when we are talking about literal life and death!" He shouted. That was then when a woman's voice at the head of the table raised her hand. "Easy Lieutenant." She said gently. "Do not hate the young for their curiosity. We were all like this at one point." The woman then resumed her focus. "Now then. With Lady Uzukage refusing to give us the time, we do not have the ability to rely on her for the snake contract. This would have been so much easier if Lady Ayame still had the scroll." She said with sorrow in her voice. "We must get the contract through any means!" Another man shouted. Bickering erupted. "If we steal it from the Lady Uzukage, then we will be waging war against Uzu herself. We cannot afford that kind of fighting!" The fighting continued. Zehara would have more than enough information he needed.
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 12:33 am
Zahara Half-Blood Hyuuga
... I am the Flame of the North ...
None of the speakers could fathom the power of the box, a spell weaved through the feeble mind of the few that observed its magnificent presence. It was a load of bologna, the box was just Zahara in henge who had to keep himself from chuckling aloud. In truth he had not expected the henge to work but now he listened in to the uproar of an older voice berating the first with overdramatics of life and death. Yet the details of the seriousness of those within began to have him waver on whether or not the group were a bunch of loons. A woman spoke a rank name, indicating there was a pecking order among the gaggle of hens and he listened on when she continued with referring to the village's Kage, speaking of the snake contract and a name he was not familiar with intently.
Snake. Serpent. Scroll. Zahara pondered as he, as the box, moved back away from the corner and dispelled his transformation with his eyes fully active so he could observe the room in full. He could hear the tail end of the growing conversation quickly turning argument as he gathered his chakra within his body and pondered his choices. They were a group of conspirators in the very least with a semblance of some ranking structure amongst themselves when he heard the woman refer to an older one speaking as Lieutenant. One by the name of Ayame was mentioned and by the sound of it they no longer possessed the object of that which they were seeking with a scroll and by connecting the dots Zahara learned then that Chie was in fact the holder of what they sought, a summoning scroll of the serpents.
The fascination of long slender reptiles in this village seethes deep into the foundation it seems. I see it is coveted even... perhaps dangerously so. His thoughts rolled through his decision to make an action then and there. The fact they were conspiring on acquiring a scroll of some power based on just how much the village has had such a deep root to the serpent motif to even stealing it from the Kage herself. He could see with his Byakugan that they around the table still and were more lively than before, he focused more intently with his chakra as he weaved his hands together from around the corner out of sight. In the center of their little table invisible strands of chakra encircled a small point as an auditory illusion snapped and popped to get their attention as Zahara maintained focus.
"But it is a treasonous act you discuss even if you cannot afford the fight." It was Zahara's voice that spoke in the center of the table, a trick of the mind but a simple one with a purpose. The genjutsu was just there to get their attention, to sow a little confusion and discord as a clone of himself appeared standing upon the table with a transformation disguising itself as one of them. He had created both a clone and the clone itself began waving its arms upon its creation to mask its true form and now the real Zahara outside sunk into the earth with his earth military movement skill, letting the clone take front and center stage while he observed with the Byakugan. One side little trick was that the clone was primed with electrical chakra unlike his normal creations.
"So decide what choice you make here, because I suggest this talk ceases here and now or you will each be brought to bare witness to walking the Path." Fire flickered off of the shoulders as the clone spoke as the hooded and faceless body observed each, the clone's true purpose was to dissuade these people from continuing their course of action while being a rough recon tactic. "Loyalty is one of the key tenets of your Path, turn back and walk true." the clone said more as the henge was dispelled then and it showed the black haired man with amber eyes, looking to each person in that room to see any faces.
[ Calculations not put in, will be factored if encounter turns to Combat. *Lightning Kage Bunshin & Whisper Acquired through Training Coupons.
Summary: Zahara moved away from the edge of the corner, re-observed the room with Byakugan. Used Auditory Genjutsu with Byakugan as Proxy. Kage Bunshin created with transformation to mimic the people first, transformation ended and fire chakra is being used with chakra manifestation, visual effects only. Actual Zahara hiding underground, still observing with Byakugan. ]
Surprise silenced the room as the voice appeared out of no where. When the clone manifested, ten of the twelve cultist took combative stances as they readied to fight. However, the leader of the cult, the woman, raised her hands to cease. All members, even those who could not see her, stopped. They knew from sheer intention what their master commanded. "Your language. Might you also have learned from the great Angel of Death, Kya?" The woman said. Her hands moved to her hood as she pulled it off. Locks of silver hair fell as her beautiful wrinkles were made bare to the world. "If you are a student of hers, then you know the value of treasured eyes. Which is also why you should never assume that the people you threat also do not have them." She opened her eyes as she finished her statement; the pale byakugan hues tense and active. Her body turned to the Zehara who hide beneath the very earth. "I promise a one time ceasefire. Continue to play tricks, however, and my charity is forfeited." She said sternly. Even if he ran now, he would know from his own byakugan how easily he could be traced. He either had to commit to the fight, or talk it out.
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 6:04 pm
Zahara Half-Blood Hyuuga
... I am the Flame of the North ...
He was discovered despite his careful nature, it would seem one had the piercing gaze of his very own as he considered a few new approaches. Could he afford a confrontation right then? It was already a calculated risk in his attempts to deceive a room of potential bogies with a lacking illusion and clone. Alas he was quite surprised to see the one with eyes like his own managed to notice the ruse of his clone as the real Zahara rose out of the ground into the same room as the robes of the round table. The man ascended out from the floor like he was coming from a flight of stairs, a slight swagger in his gait and a calm face as he looked upon the room with eyes of ivory, temples tensed with the muscles coursed with chakra.
"You speak of tricks while devising a scheme that involves as such so there is no charity involved here, merely a deterrence of senseless blows." Zahara began speaking as he stood opposite of the side with the other, a woman of silver mane and the Byakugan like that of his own, and calmly his fingers for the clone to vanish with a harmless snap of its elemental chakra, static electricity crackling in the air and horrid stench of ozone lingering as the clone was gone. "It is not a threat I speak but merely fact and truth that you hear only from me. If you refer to Hex Speaker, less of a student and more of a pilgrim of their way is what I consider myself to be." His words were laced with his actual intent, letting his chakra gather within him in slight anticipation.
Here he was, spinning words and passive aggressive verbal cues to a room out numbering himself in unfavorable odds in tight corridors - a threat more for them than it was for him until he considered the one with the Byakugan possessing the clan's style. "From how you speak, I am not the only one who heeds their vision if I am to surmise this right. But the facts are still plain as day, talk of stealing and conspiring away from public eye." A smile crept on his face finally as the wise crack was something he couldn't resist. "Naughty. This threat, you perceive it as, is my way to steer each of you from transgressing to a Path you cannot turn back from." As Zahara spoke, he had to keep in mind of the Byakugan user as they could pin point his very chakra which made him realize a great deal of his usual tricks had to be more bold. Yet as he speaking he didn't exhibit aggression like that of his clone had but arms hung as his sides, one hand occasionally gesturing and motioning as he spoke as a quirk he had.
Looking directly at the woman, his eyes were as a hawk's even with perfect clarity to the other's to his sides. "Consider the charity taken, so now how shall we proceed for I must warn your comrades in here that we both can turn this room to dust with just rotation of our chakra. I rather avoid unnecessary exchange of blows if we wish to continue this civilly." He spoke directly to her this time, his fancy speaking dropped as he wanted to address and passively threaten the woman that she and him both would be a danger to the others she was with. It was a bold move on his part but he wanted to avoid conflict, at least at the time as he wanted to pry into these people and their intentions.
"D O N O T H I N G ; L E A V E N O T H I N G U N D O N E ... or I can leave this entire s**t undone..." 潮║ 𝓤𝔃𝓾𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓸𝓰𝓪𝓴𝓾𝓻𝓮 ↬ 𝖧𝖨𝖣𝖣𝖤𝖭 𝖶𝖧𝖨𝖱𝖫𝖯𝖮𝖮𝖫 | D-Ranked...Mmm-Yum! | Genin
Appearance/Apparel:
The first image below (spoiler) reflects her physical appearance as well as her typical apparel. She wears stylish glasses over basic make up with a thin white shirt that is waaaay toooo soft, comfortable, and snug to look this thin. Her shirt is not lengthy yet drapes enough to make it a mystery if she is wearing anything underneath. However, when her shirt slightly lifts from time to time it reveals a garter set that conceals a good amount of skin but is still quite suggestive. She typically always sports a choker that she pairs with a leash for special occasions. Lastly, a pair of stylish heels that work well with her setup, since she is not very combative for a serial killer. Her outfits usually come in a variation of colors such as white, gray, and black, but time from time she may coordinate the colors differently to avoid being too predictable and plain. Shackles are laced around the ankles with chain bonds which are just for entertainment. She has 3 separate markings with two being depicted in the first image containing a tattoo riding under the collar bone and in her cleavage. The second image contains a tattoo similar to the Dharma Power Seal, but unlike the picture this marking is located on the lower back rather than the upper back instead of what is depicted in the image.
[ O O C : I n s e r t Y o u r F a t h e r H e r e ]
Missions:
Home was the best place to retreat to when ---------------------------------------------------------------------- disappointment struck; Aya knew this well by ---------------------------------------------------------------------- now. However, she was never the type to be a ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sulking loser... well at least not for very long. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Heading up to her door she elegantly phased ---------------------------------------------------------------------- the entrance to her home. She then walked up to ---------------------------------------------------------------------- her fridge and phased the door to grab a bottle of ---------------------------------------------------------------------- water. Aya slid her hand back into the fridge ---------------------------------------------------------------------- to return the half sipped bottle. She would ---------------------------------------------------------------------- retrieve her hand, then proceed outside by ---------------------------------------------------------------------- phasing her back door and entering a wide ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wooden deck the size of a basketball court. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The funny thing about it all is she never had a ---------------------------------------------------------------------- basketball court sized deck. To be honest she ---------------------------------------------------------------------- couldn't afford a home in the gully either. This ---------------------------------------------------------------------- was all product of her imagination; Genjutsu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Her bloodline specialized in manifesting genjutsu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- into reality. This in use with False surroundings ---------------------------------------------------------------------- allowed Aya a safe place, free housing, food, and ---------------------------------------------------------------------- most importantly.... independence. She could ---------------------------------------------------------------------- completely cease to exist if she wanted to. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Not only was the scenery in her control when it ---------------------------------------------------------------------- came to grounded objects and earthly things, but ---------------------------------------------------------------------- the weather was also within her range of ---------------------------------------------------------------------- manipulation. Lightning would strike... her ---------------------------------------------------------------------- body temperature rose, which was common for ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aya due to the butterflies she got at the sound of ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thunder, It was not one hundred percent a ---------------------------------------------------------------------- natural response this time around. Aya would ---------------------------------------------------------------------- happen to be using a technique she was working ---------------------------------------------------------------------- on getting around to. It rose the targets body ---------------------------------------------------------------------- temperature and made them seem as if they ---------------------------------------------------------------------- were sweating excessively. With a new large ---------------------------------------------------------------------- deck and most of her lower ranked genjutsu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- out of the way, now Aya felt confident to work on ---------------------------------------------------------------------- her physicality. The extra tension would do her ---------------------------------------------------------------------- some good in terms of resistance and ---------------------------------------------------------------------- conditioning the soul. Aya stood still as thunder ---------------------------------------------------------------------- crackled and a few drops of rain began to ---------------------------------------------------------------------- downfall. Usually most could tell at this point it ---------------------------------------------------------------------- was going to start pouring and that there would ---------------------------------------------------------------------- all sorts of light works. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
▰▰▰KNUCKLE UP
Stamina Pool: 000/150 Passive Stats Increases: • Strength ► 0 | →→ N/A • Speed ► 0 | →→ N/A • Reflex ► 0 | →→ N/A • Fortitude ► 0 | →→ N/A ▰▰▰FORMLESS STYLES → 03 / 03 • Soft physical = Mobility, Parrying, and Throwing. This encompasses all aspects of close-range unarmed combat that don't directly damage the opponent and aren't based on physical strength.
• Soft Mental: Stopping, kneeling, and performing focused, critical thinking for any number of posts will gift the user a boost to a single known Formless Style, for as many posts as the user focuses. The buff increases per post, starting at a slight boost on the first post, then moving to mildly on the second, then moderately, heavily, greatly, and finally supremely after 6 posts. Higher ranks of training in this Style increase maximum rank of the bonus by one, starting with a mild boost at D-Rank. Cannot stack with the Hard Mental style.
• Hard physical = Stability, Blocking, and Striking. This encompasses all aspects of close-range unarmed combat that either directly damage the opponent or are based on physical strength.
Techniques Utilized: • Henka no Kumoyuki [ Change of Weather ] →→Rank: D → S+ - rank →→P/S. Sense: Sight // Touch, Secondary Sense of Choice →→Base Duration // Upkeep: 6 Posts // 5 Chakra →→Source: Phantasm →→Description: The user can change the weather to anything they prefer for the target to suffer through. This is a small genjutsu, and is limited to minor changes to the environment. Retraining this jutsu to higher levels takes up more genjutsu slots, 1 slot per retraining, due to its wide ranging abilities. The maximum, S+ - ranked, is 5 re-trainings, to which this jutsu will take an additional 5 genjutsu slots. Increase of technique rank raises the area of effect [100 Yards at D - rank, gaining 200 Yards per rank after], as well as the realism of the technique itself. The base duration of the technique is decreased by one [1] per rank of the slot utilized, reflecting the increase in power.
• Youma Tacchi [ Ghost Touch ] →→Rank: D →→P/S. Sense: Sound // Touch →→Base Duration // Upkeep: 3 Posts // 10 Chakra →→Description: This simple Genjutsu shifts the target's perceptions of the world two feet forwards and two feet to the left or right. While they are affected they will believe that they just pass right through whatever they try to touch like a ghost trying to make contact with the real world. This Jutsu works best if people just ignore the target and any sort of forceful contact will snap the target out of this state.
• Magen: Onsui Tamashii [ Demonic Illusion: Heated Soul ] →→Rank: D →→P/S. Sense: Touch // - →→Base Duration // Upkeep: 4 Posts // 15 Chakra →→Source: Physical contact with caster, direct sunlight, or close to fire →→Description: The opponent sudden feels very hot, enough to make them sweat uncontrollably.
• Magen: Kokuni Arazu no Jutsu [ Demonic Illusion: False Surrounding Technique ] →→Rank: D →→P/S. Sense: Sight // - →→Base Duration // Upkeep: 5 Posts // 5 Chakra →→Description: A Genjutsu technique that makes the victim believe that he/she is in a totally different surrounding than they really are. The user creates a whole new surrounding that the opponent ends up seeing, instead of the old one, giving the user the advantage as only they would be aware of the exact lay of the land. However, note that people, pets, puppets, weaponry, the user, and the target are not part of the surroundings. These things stay where they are. This jutsu produces the feeling that the land is not as it should be, before changing to one in which the target feels that it should be. →→Special: If double cost and upkeep are paid upon initial casting, the user is able to hide themselves, as well as any objects weighing up to fifteen pounds [15 lbs] per rank of the user within the same amount of footage, within the scenery.
▰▰▰Kombat&Training Chakra Pool: 000/350 Techniques Utilized: • Tek [ x ] | • Tek [ x ]
Modifiers: • If this class is taken as the first and second class, then you may take two disciplines from this class. Additionally, the number of senses you are able to utilize in techniques increases by 1. This still cannot increase the number of senses a technique may effect beyond 5 • All Sakkakugan owners learn 1 extra Genjutsu per post. • Sakkakugan owners are typically physically fragile. • Sakkakugan owners typically have bipolar disorder, due to the mental stress their powers put on them. • Genjutsu rank D - C cost [10] less chakra to perform. • Genjutsu rank B - A cost [20] less chakra to perform. • Genjutsu rank S cost [40] less chakra to perform. • Kai costs [20] less chakra to perform.
