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"Now than." Komen said as he let the armor disengage around his head, "I need you to bring me to the eader of the ANBU so I can be a full fledged member. I think capturing one of their own should be enough to show that I am good enough." Komen said with a nod as he was thinking how long he had been here. He had gained a lot of friends and amazing powers through his time in this world. he had hoped that he would be able to gain more as he followed the ANBU Agent.

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yori stopped a ways from the village, having heard that there was a great deal of commotion there as some creature had come to attack, mimicking the incidents of the nine tailed fox that took place a long time ago in the village that nearly destroyed it. People were flooding out of the village en mass, and yori got the feeling that whatever it was that he was suppose to be afraid of would definitely end up being something that he regretted seeing, if he did go inwards. Having no particular interest in the truce between their villages now, deciding instead to avoid the combat that was taking place, yori stopped a short distance from the village and began setting his things here or there along the grassy road, the top of the great gates of Konoha barely visible in the distance, leaving the village and anything that might have been inside too far off to even be a blur for the shinobi from th Hidden Cloud to see. But, in case everything wasn't destroyed by the time he got there, yori decided it wouldn't hurt if he drew forth a map and looked at some of the historical spots that were in the Konoha village, since he might as well go sight seeing while he was training to bring about the destruction of their village. It wasn't unusual for someone to want to go and see the five hokage rock faces for example, and he was sure no one would go interrupting him and challenging him to a battle to the death between shinobi while he was there doing what any innocent traveler was. He wasn't someone of particular importance like the raikage, so there was no reason for assassins to be waiting on him and preparing ot kill him. it was just like a family going on vacation to a famous tourist destination, and yori knew that that was exactly how he would act when he wasn't training in order to learn some of the many advanced jutsu that existed in Konoha. Even now he knew that they had an amazingly advanced repertoire of techniques for battle that most other villages didn't, and many people were even willing not to credit that to the fact that they were the original hidden village that began the art of sharing ninjutsu and perfecting the arts that were taught amongst the hidden villages. This was the core of teh world of the shinobi now that yori thought about it, and even he knew that amongst this town the origins of the shinobi world, of the system with one large village to a country and the idea of selling their services to a feudal lord or the like was made and begun. That was why this was the source for everything, the peace and the conflict, the heart of humanity in the world that the shinobi lived in and serviced their masters through. yori was well aware of just what this village meant to most other people, and its special meanings extended to him as well, since he had always thought of it in a special manner like the others. After all, a village that was a source of the failed world, the old one that needed to be washed away was a village that anyone would recognized and respect, and when he crushed it it would be a sign of a new world led by even greater power and balance, one that might rely only on the strong shinobi, rather than the weak idiots who were pumped out of Konoha daily because the village hidden in the leafs had never been able to accept the same basic principles that they originally founded. Their founder, the one who was known as the first great hokage believed that a unified strong shinobi force would have a much better chance at ruling the world than a force that was crafted out of an army of the weaker shinobi, and so he had bound together with the Uchiha clan and brought a great deal of order to the civil war torn countries that were unable to find peace in themselves because of their inadequate means and sources of power. yori intended to bring about an equal and greater revolution in the world of the shinobi, and when the time had come he was sure that he would make those who had watched his ascension proud and thus bring honor to himself, the father who was disgraced by the sacrifices made at the end of the war with Konoha, and the entire Hidden Cloud Village which didn't intend to show him any respect, that had nearly cast him aside after all the work that he and his clan had put into founding, maintaining and empowering both the lightening country and the village that was it's source of life, and its source of protection from other villages which would easily choose to take over if they had to. This was the source of motivation for him, not just to take on missions that were given to the village when they came up, but to ascend ahead of the village's needs and eventually bring about a better place for all shinobi, which was made through his force and his jutsu rather than the techniques that were crafted in this current and failing world of shinobi. It wasn't necessarily right to say that he agreed with shinobi like Orochimaru who believed in sacrificing lives and creating costly, forbidden Justus, but rather yori worked hard in order to forge new jutsus that did not require such large sacrifices and still made an important impact upon the battlefield. He'd learned to craft a special skill using his sword already that allowed him to turn basic close range fighting into a long range battle when needed, and to allow his sword to remain strong even when normally it would crack from his chakra pressure, and eventually he would design more elaborate Justus in order to compensate for the parts of his combat style that he was not prepared for yet. It was true that there were the brillian and then there were the dense, and yori would whole heartedly oppose anyone who thought that he was one of the latter, the fact that he was so quick to think up thorough strategies in battle a sign of his quick working mind, which was often an incredibly dangerous shinobi weapon on the battlefield, more so than most of teh shinobi weapons that were crafted for cutting and piercing. Shikimaru Nara had once defeated a shinobi who was considered nearly Jounin rank as a newly fledged Chuunin, because on the battlefield his strategies were undeniably brilliant in comparison to most other shinobi. That was the sort of fair play that yori ntended to use when fighting, and that was also why learning certain jutsus would come easier to him than most others, who were slower in comprehending the basics of a technique; if you could understand, then you could win and that was one of the most important, no, the most important thing on the battlefield when it came time for push and shove.
yori knew exactly how economical it was to use such shinobi on the battlefield rather than those with raw talent, although there was a time and place for both of those groups. Those who had intelligence were amazing field officers but were also required for basic routine things in a Hidden Village, and those who had talent were useful both for teaching others once they understood the premise of a technique, and for their talent on the battlefield in which they could easily decimate a less aware enemy. There was something to be said for hard work as well, but they took a great deal of time and skill to make them as strong as either of the two others, and that wasn't very economical when it came to the well being of the shinobi as a whole. Those who were talented needed very little but what it took to sustain them and a drive to increase their power to become mighty warriors for use on the battlefield, and those who were intelligent would quickly device ways around the weaknesses that they presented in a battle or when they were learning how to use a new jutsu in order to make up for what they didn't have in natural talents. These were the most economical shinobi, and that was why it would be best to provide them with a special place for training, such as a new Hidden Village that did not accept those whose skills were limited, especially if they were in certain areas. The taijutsu user Rock Lee(my Favorite character), a member of the Konoha village he was now so close to that yori had heard about, was apparently a user of a taijutsu only based repertoire, and that made him a weakness on the battlefield, not an exceptional warrior. yori had heard about the way he persevered and through years of extensive training built up his newly found talent, but even so it had taken all of the things that cost money and time that the village didn't have. Even then, he had a weakness and couldn't use ninjutsu or genjutsu, things that made him extremely vulerable on the battlefield. There was no shinobi who could use only taijutsu practically, and that made it so that anyone like that would definitely be a hindrance when the time came to put a group of trained shinobi into battle. If he was in a shinobi unit, then it was likely with a number of skilled shinobi to make up for his weaknesses, exactly as yori continued to remind himself was not the best unit style in the first place. Only the most elite should have been paired with the most elite, and that made the system of the hidden leaf village flawed in that regard. However, when he considered the person he'd heard was teamed with Rock Lee, it only both confirmed his hypothesis and further reminded him of the foolishness of the system that they still implemented in the rival village's home. Neji Hyuuga, he'd heard, was one with born natural talent that surpassed most of their whole clan, even the main branch that had for many years suppressed the lower branch as the weaker ones who were not to be the successors of the Hyuuga clan. He had reached the level of Jounin in incredible amounts of time, and that meant that heh ad a talent that could rarely be found in any village. That was why it was that he had been paired with a foolish taijutsu user like Rock Lee, who could hardly understand the different types of jutsus, let alone perform them. Rock Lee may have had exceptional strong fist style, but with Neji and his soft fist style it was easy to handle ninjutsu and genjutsu much more effectively and deal with the situation as it called for. Thinking about it further, Neji had the Byakugan, one of the most sacred eye techniques which allowed one to see directly through an attack or either the genjutsu or ninjutsu, with an almost non existent blind spot present. That was why he would be able to ascend and take on missions with such ease, completing them as easily as the records said he had, and yori was well aware of the uses of someone whose raw talents was as far ahead as his own. yori intended to prove that as a member of the Maya clan and as a member of the village hidden in the clouds, he had an equal amount of talent and would ascend just as his predecessors from that hidden leaf had. Meanwhile, he thought of Shikimaru nara again. The economical choice; often sold off as a medium level shinobi, but with powers that far surpassed those of a highly elite jounin if one were to focus properly in battle. He'd heard that the man completed countless missions, all using his simple shadow possession jutsus and his mind, which always thought many steps ahead of the game. He was born into a clan with an exceptional ability of course, but yori knew that it was more than that which made them deadly in battle, and it was in their minds where their true power lay since their clan had a tendency to be made of lazy bumbs who rarely learned a vast majority of the jutsus available to them. It was said that a nara could analyze an opponent in two minutes flat if they were an elite jounin level with hundreds of jutsus. It was also said tha anything of a lesser rank didn't even stand a chance against their analytical minds. yori had known that they would be a valuable source of power if they ever made any alliances with outside villages, but they were a clan that seemed to be especially tied to the Hokage and never seemed to think of the possibilities of betraying their village, something that could have rewarded them handsomely. They were often heard of as the most legendary of the Konoha for success rates on missions, even if they weren't assigned the most high class ones, and when they were given the most rare they were often supported by those who had the talent to back them up, their clan having been closely tied to two others for a number of years already. A battle behind mastermind shinobi was a battle that was already won before it ever started, and it wasn't too hard to say that because of the Nara clan, the village hidden in the clouds had suffered a great deal of losses during the last war. More so than even when they fought the Hyuugas, who had ended their attempt to force the villages into war once more, and even more so than deadly forces like the legendary seven swordsmen and those powers which were suppose to be the trump cards of the villages. That was why someone got the most out of their money if they asked for one of the Nara clan, and that was why in a world where yori made the most Elite shinobi band together with the most elite shinobi, they would be included amongst the best, and never pegged as anything less than what true talent they were actually made of. The Nara were the most elite of the elite, and in the future yori could only hope that he would come to be allied with one of them in his struggle against the world to bring a more fair order to things. Even now the village hidden in the clouds was partially kept in check by these outstanding clans that made up the village hidden in the leaf, and if any of them were ever to weaken their faith in the village even a little bit, then the possibilities for war between multiple villages would come again. In that glory naniyori would be capable of rising, and in doing so he would be capable of making himself one whose influence even extended into new villages and those who had long stood against the cloud, causing clans to branch and come to him at long last. The goal of Raikage was far too low for him, but he wished to make his clan proud, and simply by serving in missions that benefited the lightening country would never make him what he wished to be. That was why he needed fuel, fuel to throw on the fire and bring about what it was that would give all shinobi a purpose again. The hidden sand village had once considered it a wise decision, and yori couldn't argue with those whose powers were as exceptional as theirs, whose fame in the last great war was well deserved. yori had heard that they wind country was exceptionally powerful in their shinobi military force before the end, but like in the country of lightening they had become weak after the truces were forged by the hidden leaf. If they could only gain some powers, then they might rise to glory once more, and take back the world that all shinobi eagerly awaited, one in which they could carve their names into the flesh of their enemies, rather than into the stone mountainsides that the village of Konoha was so proud of. And first of all, naniyori needed to practice the jutsus of the village hidden in the leaf, so that he would be able to awaken even greater power and prove that he was beyond what they charged him as, calling him a lowly Genin when his prowess surpassed that of even some of the most elite ninja. It was his duty as a shinobi to make himself strong, and it was his duty as a man to see through his convictions until the end. Fe wshinobi could realize that in the pampered world that they were now living in and that was why it required a large blade, sharp blade to cut through the ignorant peace that resided on the land and stir the fires of war that were still fresh. Even if he had to do it by bringing about a new war, and abandoning his village, something that he loathed the idea of and thus was in no way ready to leap into action to perform, yori would cause the wars to spring forth again, and that required the power to be one of the kages, or even at the level of a kage without the respectful following. yori wished for the respect of being one of the might however, and that meant that going about things the right way would be the only thing for him to do, for now at least. In time he might think of greater goals, but the world did not rally against a villain, and that was the reason that he would have to keep his mind and actions in check, while reminding himself as well that just because people came from different villages, it didn't necessarily mean that they were non respectable scum that should not have been forgiven. Even so a watch had to be put on, because as the terrain and regions changed with the people who lived within them, one could no longer see clearly what lay within the minds of the ones they served. It was best to wait it out while increasing your own strength, at your own pace..


Blue Impact: complete
Leaf Rising Wind: complete
Kage Bushin No Jutsu:Complete
1,000 Years of Pain: complete 3200 cp 32 paragraph

Komen rose from his bow as the old man nodded to Komen, "I heard you caught one of the ANBU members in a chase." He said as komen nodded back to the old man, "Yes, that is correct. I gave pursuit to this fellow Anbu and captured him using all of my skills and all my crafts." He said as he stood there waiting to see what the old man would say to Komen at this point in time. The old man smirked as he was somewhat surprised that this happened to someone that just turned into a Jounin not too long ago. "Very well done. Do you know the Jounin level techniques?"

3/4 Zodiac Formation: Horse Technique (Koudoutari Kessei: Uma no Jutsu)

yori turned his head, looking into the woods as he thought for a moment that he had heard something, but shrugged it off when he saw nothing. Apparently the shinobi from the hidden cloud had been far more uneasy around his natural enemies than he thought, and he realized it must have been affecting his work. Turning around again, he breathed deeply and began to shrug off the effects of the cold chill that had run down his spine, from the days that seemed to hold less and less warmth, and began to focus again as he thought about the technique that he would next take into account, it being a formidable one on the battlefield. yori had heard of the effectiveness of the genjutsus of the shinobi of the village hidden in the leaves, when they actually introduced the leaves, the element their village was founded on, but he had never personally used them. Now seemed like the appropriate time, and yori began to form the handseals, opening his eyes with a bloodthirsty look stuck within them. "This is a technique that will be very valuable. Now, Hell Viewing Jutsu!" yori said, forcing the leaves around him to pick up, but only slightly. The shinobi made a sound of disgust at his own failure to use the technique properly, and began to strike the handseals again as he thought about it. "Genjutsu Release" What had went wrong? He decided the best answer was to go throug the basic steps as he began to do the handseals for practice. First was the basic motion of the handseals to build up the energy required, which even now he could feel he was doing right. It took a few, but when done correctly it didn't matter how many times he did them, because they were following the right pattern to build up the chakra in the manner that it needed to be released. Second, yori had to make sure he focused the chakra in the right proportions. To do so, he felt the two energies within his body beginning to build together, forming an innocent form of energy that was channeled through the handseals. Finally was the materialization of the energy he was building up to combine through the handsigns. He struck the final handsign once more, deciding that his practice on this final step had not been thorough enough, and spoke the name of the technique again as he threw his hand upwards. As he did so, the leaves blew around, and yori felt the chakra release in an even flow to create a genjutsu. Satisfied with the technique for now, leaving it as it was as one of the arts that would come in handy against someone whose weakness lay in the leaf shinobi, yori decided to once again advance his training. The next was a quick set of techniques. "Taobidogi!" He said, pulling forth as croll and summoning weapons. Once that was done, he smirked and leaped in the air, practicing the second level. "Rising Twin Dragons!" He said, throwing out a number of weapons with the art. He'd learned a great deal of the arts of the leaf shinobi, but now yori understood why it was so difficult to keep such a large repertoire of ninjutsus and genjutsus, and why even with them it was hard to fight a prolonged battle against the enemies. yori knew now that it took a lot of chakra in order to use so many useful abilities in battle, so if he was going to use a great deal of power in a battle, it might be better to use that power in a focused attack that used a lot of energy at once, rather than wasting it with a number of minor abilities. Deciding that the best course of action lay in mastering a number of skills with such large amounts of chakra in well maintained control, yori ran the handsigns thorugh his head again for one he'd heard of and seen the handsigns for, but that his master had never actually been able to use. It was one that used the sage like ability to draw in natural chakra, and thus it was very hard on the body. Finishing the handseals, although performing them slowly to ensure he hadn't missed a step, yori nodded and slammed his hand into the ground, feeling the chakra send itself out through the area in the exact fashion he had envisioned, steadying itself as he put an immense amount of concentration into keeping the chakra in an even distribution rather than in the greatest amount of power that he could muster. Grinning as it began to materialize, covering the entire area exactly as he had planned, yori shouted. "Now! Toad Mouth Binding!" He shouted, forcing the materialization of the great mountain toad, one of the most used skills of the sages in keeping people for interrogation. yori nodded satisfactorily, viewing the inside of the stomach that many people could never escape from. That trap was now his to use against his opponents, and the shinobi let the release go as he brought his hands together, patting the dirt and bits of slime from the toad off of them as the dust and cloud of smoke from the partial summon was whisked away. With that out of the way, the shinobi laughed and paused, taking some time in order to adjust himself physically to the releasing of chakra that he was performing in the area. Once he was done, yori sighed and sat down. After a moment of drinking and thoughtfully wondering what it was that he was missing, yori began to run a hand through his hair. Then he remembered, that the same sage that had used the toad mouth binding was also known for his ability to turn his long hair into a weapon. yori smirked, realizing that he too had kept his hair long enough for it to be a particularly powerful weapon, and thought about how a jutsu like that might be performed. Thinking about it, the Underworld Guardian Spikes would probably require intense chakra manifested in the hair, but it would have to be solid so that it did not give when it was struck. yori nodded at the thought, feeling his chakra with a good bit of new energy within it as his training reached its natural next step, one that would allow him to use the skills of ninjutsu to defend himself. From the beginning he had been working on learning new ways to destroy his opponent, but if he practiced this art he would have a far more direct way to defend himself with the ninjutsus he'd learned, and that was why the Underworld Guardian Spikes now seemed to be such a useful skill. yori stood, cracking his shoulder and rotating it a few times to allow it to loosen, before he formed simple handseal, more for the focus that it gave him than the actual need to form them with such an ability. "Well then...Underworld Guardian Spikes." yori said, letting his chakra intensify and harden into a highly physical form, his green hair suddenly becoming coarse and tense, before splitting out in a shell that could defend him. Although he did not use his chakra to forcefully grow it to defend from all sides now, yori knew that on the opposite side of him there lay a very deadly defense, which would provide for shelter from back attacks. Letting the chakra go, and losing the stamina it required to maintain, yori nodded and felt his hair return to normal. With it having split his headband, yori quickly grabbed a new ribbon, forcing his hair up into the form that it had been in before, before rapping it tightly and smirking. The techniques of the legendary toad sage might have proven far more valuable to the user of the hidden cloud's jutsus after all, and yori felt that it was an accomplishment if he was able to use more than just the two techniques that he'd just practiced in a real fight, without too much extra training. What would they say if they knew that a Genin from the village hidden in the clouds was capable of using such mighty jutsus in battle? yori only gave a dark smirk in response to the thoughts, and instantly decided that it was time to further the Underworld's skills that he would be able to use if he was going to reach that accomplishment all by himself. Forming the necessary handseals, yori thought about what it was he was going to do next. When he came to a loss, the shinobi's hands suddenly stopped their rapid movements, and in time he shook his head, amazed that he could begin and stop it all so suddenly as he forget, ignorantly what it was he was going to use. After a few moments of acting like a bumbling fool he nodded, remembering, not needing to voice his displeasure with his stupid behavior when there was no one around. Forming the handseals quickly once more, yori smirked and slammed his hand into the ground, shouting. "Swamp of the Underworld!" He shouted, the ground in the large vicinity of cut down trees instantly turning into a treacherous muck that he knew even he wouldn't be able to pass through. yori was willing to bet that the muck was also chakra infused and would thus making the abilities like water walking useless, making it an extremely deadly trap to anyone who fell in. It was a technique that befited that toad sage that had come from the village hidden in the leaves, whose skills had made him a legendary Sannin. But someone who didn't possess such a unique title had now performed it, and he was sure that he could apply it easily as well. There was very little that he accepted he couldn't do, as a ninja of the Hidden Cloud and as one of the proudest warriors in the world. yori still had no use for basic battle summons, however, he had never used them and he was beginning to believe that he might not be able to unlock the abilities of a summon if he didn't at least verse himself in some basic practice. There was a very simple one, and biting the tip of his thumb gently to cause blood flow, yori slammed his hand into the ground. "Toad Summoning Jutsu!" He shouted, causing a large toad, although not one of enormous size as he'd heard legends tell of, to appear before him. yori nodded and smirked again, before letting the toad be dismissed. It hadn't asked questions, and as long as it didn't speak he wasn't willing to answer it in return. Their relationship would be one in which the weapon was used for war, and that was all that it required when summoning something like the toad. Now that he was out of the techniques that the toad sage had crafted on his own, or learned from some other great descendant of carnage however, yori sighed and raised a thumb to his chin, thinking. There was only the next technique that had been designed and perfected by the toad's sages students for him to try, and beyond it was a number of variations that he would be able to use if he was capable of mastering the technique. he'd heard it was an A rank skill because of it's size manipulation, so yori had to be careful when learning it. Extending his hand, yori began to focus deeply upon the palm of his hand. He'd once heard to focus on popping a water balloon when learning to use the technique, but he had no novelty items around. Then he was told that, if successful in getting the chakra to rotate in different directions, one could possibly pop a ball by compressing it even further. These two steps were ones that any trained shinobi knew how to do, but the students of the toad sage had not had that common sense of a shinobi already apparently. Even so, yori did and that left only the third stage, forming a constant sphere to keep the spacial compression while increasing the chakra inside of it in order to create a new attack with incredible power. yori began to focus on his palm, the ball forming quickly enough, but the chakra quickly burst into different directions. yori cursed, and extended his hand agian. "Well then, I'll get this to work if it's the last thing I do. Come on...Rasengan!" yori shouted, forming the energy into the ball and forcing the chakra down onto it, keeping the circle a constant sphere that he refused to allow to burst. fter a moment, it stayed and Naniyori smirked, running his other thumb across his nose snidely. "Well then, that's that for the legendary technique." He said, holding the Rasengan that stayed constant. There was another form of the technique however, three to be exact, and yori had intentions of using all three of them if he was capable of. That said, yori began to focus on the Rasengan in his hand further, but even so he couldn't manage to form the technique any larger than it had been before. yori considered the method that they had used before to improve it, but from what he'd heard there was nothing. Cursing as he decided to focus on the Rasengan was used by the old one, and what skills he used most commonly, yori continued to ponder for a moment before smirking, and snapping his finger. Raising his other hand, yori focus a small portion of chakra. "Kage Bushin no jutsu" he stated calmly, forming another clone that would take care of the rest. It was the most common tactic of the last student of the toad sage, to combine shadow clones with nearly everything he did. A moment later the clone began to strike his palm above the rasengan in hand, and yori focused his chakra increasingly until the two efforts became one, and he felt the compilation of their efforts bound together by the technique that he was about to use. The rasengan in his hand began to increase in size so much so that it had a whole new power level, and when he felt that it was time yori smirked, raising it above his head. "Now try this! Oodama Rasengan!" yori shouted, slamming the technique into the ground and sending a wave of energy into the atmosphere as the crater below him formed from thei mpact of his technique, its size a huge hole in comparison to what he might have done before. yori grinned in satisfaction, having reached a third of his goal as he prepared to increase the power of his attack, or at least the effectiveness of the Rasengan by learning it's versatility in battle. What was primarily a close range attack could be turned into a mid range attack with the right other means, and yori knew exactly what it took for the other one. Sitting down at a tree and popping a cork out of a bottle of saki, yori smirked and took a drink, something he was usually opposed to. Once the drink was done, yori lifted his hand, beginning to create another rasengan that would be far different than the previous one. Raising his head, yori suddenly seemed to remember the shadow clone, and waved his other hand a bit apologetically. "Um, be a dear and disappear now. Ehe..." yori said, causing the shadow clone to nod and disappear. Picking up the saki with his now free hand, yori looked at the rasengan, and paused for a moment. "Well this should work then...Gouen Rasengan!" He shouted, throwing his fist forward with the Rasengan, and throwing the bottle of saki at it as well. When the spiraling attack and the saki meshed together, a whirlwind formed that sent forth a number of flames that would burn down any opponent in his way. yori grinned, letting the ball of chakra fade from his grasp. yori stood, sighing as he did so. he'd used too much compressed chakra now, and needed a better skill to use. Raising his hand as he bit the same place as before, he decided to practice the summoning jutsu so that he would be ready when the time cme. "Summoning jutsu!" He shouted, slamming his hand into the ground as he did so. A moment later a puff of smoke appeared, followed by nothing. yori sweat dropped, raising his hand. "W-what is this...apparently I need to make a pack before I use this technique." yori said, laughing a bit nervously at his own fault. Once he was done with the practice of his summoning jutsu though, yori knew he'd be at a loss once more and require the use of some more interesting abilities to sustain his trainign while he was at it. The best thing to do now was to search out the answer to the final rasengan, and he had very little aid in that one. It was said tha by combining the rasengan, a spacial technique with an elemental technique, the Rasen-shuriken could be formed. But it was an extremely difficult technique, that few people had used before. yori grinned imposingly once more, knowing that it was the exact form of technique that he could use with ease, if an idiotic like the one who had always run around claiming to be hokage was any indication of what the technique took to become perfection. yori stood, focusing his chakra into the point on his hand once more, and felt the energy increasing readily. yori let out a loud shout as the rasengan formed and his other hand raised, forming a shadow clone. With the rasengan compelte, the shadow clone began to focus the elemental chakra, a tactic that would work perfectly he assumed. The only way to do two exact opposite things at the same time, was to form two entirely different people, and the shadow clones allowed for such an oddity to exist. "Now, wind release: Spiraling Shuriken!" yori shouted, turning and slamming the release into the tree behind him. As he did so, ti was enveloped in a storm so mighty that it literally seemed to disintegrate. yori was thrown back by the unexpected rush of power, and clutched his arm, cursing at the strain. Still, he had done something that was so impossible, and now he would be able to use a powerful jutsu at the times of greatest need. yori's clone quickly ran to his side, checking to ensure the health of the first. yori looked up at the one who seemed so worried, and smirked as if it was a humorous sight to him. "Don't worry...I'm everything I need to be." He said. Even so, he was quickly assisted over to a new resting point, where Naniyori grit his teeth as he felt a shooting pain run through his arm when it was jossled by him resting against the tree. yori's cloen quickly pulled forth the bandages that it needed and started work on his arm, and Naniyori gazed into the sky where the eagle he had seen earlier now flew from. it was obviously a messenger bird, and he paused, thinking mutely what it would be like to be such a creature, that soared above the clouds and ignored the screams of men and their lives, the ones that were so pointless as a whole. The second yori finished rapping the tape around his arm and began to put it in a sling, but yori simply stared off into the distance still, before looking down at his clone. "So I wonder what it is a clone has to think about while it's in existence. Why is it you don't care about being desummoned anymore, huh?" yori asked, but the other one looked at him as it slipped the strap of the cast over his neck, allowing him to hold his arm safely for now. Then it replied, grinning as it realized the time to vanish again was coming pretty quickly. "Well after all, I'm just you. When I disappear, I'm doing nothing more than stopping being a severed piece, and returning to my body. But then even so, whether you or I are only a part of a soul, wouldn't you like to think I'm going to come out one more time? And then I'll destroy your enemies." It said, confident in it's words. yori nearly laughed at the pompous nature of the clone, which in turn reflected himself. Thinking back on the technique that damaged his arm, he didn't find it a hard concept to understand. A technique that fused two things that were exactly opposite and meant to never come together, a rasen-shuriken had to take a heavy toll when it was used. yori was going to restrict his use of it in the future, but for now he felt confident in the power he had earned from the technique. Looking towards teh city, he wondered what it was that was making such a ruckus that it had been unsafe for so long, but now things seemed to be in a constant state of hesitation, and he was sure that he didn't want to find out what the power that drew everyone towards it was. It wasn't as much a feeling like any other, as it might have been closest to the wind shuriken he had just used that was made up of the rasengan. The fact was, when used it felt like you were being sucked into the attack, it's unnatural existence wanting to draw something unique in to make it it's own existence, but that was why ti hit so hard. It was a technique of practically non-existence and that was how it disintegrated the enemy or whatever it taught. Whatever was ahead was obviously a beast that sought to destroy, and in turn that destruction would be a source of non-existence, making tehm similar. It wasn't like some of the techniques he'd just learned though, and Naniyori laughed at the antitheses that existed in all of his new techniques. For one, the technique to summon a toad, or a creature in general actually summoned into existence, rather than annihilated like the one that he had used before. Realizing such an anti-existence could occur, yori smirked and wonder just how far up the chain of ascension a summon in turn could go, just as the techniques and ninjutsus of such power could end up being further and further close to the weapons of hell. Perhaps the thing he couldn't understand about the ninjutsus were the things that made them oppposite, and only teh sages were probably capable of experiencing the ultimate life bringing jutsus in the same way that there was a jutsu that was capable of utterly destroying life. It was only hoped that such powers could not bring about absolute destruction and upset the balance of power the world always held. The world liked to keep itself balanced, but it never seemed to account for the tools known as shinobi who broke the rules preset for man and ascended above what they were born for. If there was a god, his hate must have been brimming at these constant insults, the ones that said that no man could be bound by that which was greater than him, and shinobi were the very existence of this contradiction...the weak, overcoming the strong...
yori knew that beyond the balance of life and death that the skills of a shinobi constantly walked, teh skills that were capable of doing amazing things, there were other contradictions that existed that even he would have a chance at trying to overcome, to make attacks like the one he'd just learned for himself. The most prominent of these was the well known skill of genjutsu as the hell viewing technique that he'd recently learned to use. A genjutsu was normally meant to make the opponent see nothing but what the user meant for them to, but there were skills that combined a genjutsu with basic ninjutsu elements, and it became a deadly weapon that he would see on the battlefield, very likely, and hopefully on his enemies rather than himself. One of these was the skill of the Yamagana clan that involved crushing the minds of the user, a basic genjutsu element, and then the ability to turn them against themself, soemthing that was equivalent to the shadow possessing jutsu that was very common, and used the basic elements of ninjutsu. yori knew that these combined styles were thins that made techniques vicious, and they would be close to, if not necessarily at the level of the combined spacial and elemental attacks. yori had also practiced the illusionary attacks of harming a person throug htheir worst fears, in the bug element jutsu that he had recently learned, and if something like that was used with the hell viewing jutsu then it would make an attack of amplified pain for the viewer, which made genjutsu even fiercer weapons that only the most experienced needed. yori sighed, standing and stretching as he prepared to test his body once more. yori threw a few punches with his good hand, before swing around and hitting a few kicks against the tree he'd been using for a brace while sitting to rest. Once he was sure that htey were good, he pulled the cast he'd placed on himself off, and threw a punch or two with his hurt arm. It hurt he noted, but it was something that he could get over, considering he had an important amount of training and such to get to if he wanted to stay at the lead of his village. He was born to be the head of the Mayanari clan, and he had to be the strongest of all of them if he was to live up to the role he had been given at his birth. he'd already been cast aside as a failure, but yori had no intentions of never giving up, and proving that he was more than worthy of the title of the head of their clan, and of being one of the mighty kage that ruled the villages that the shinobi often emerged from. He was one of the proudest shinobi out there, and he'd taken this time to master a number of skills that no one would ever be able to doubt. He smirked , leaping up to a tree where he would finally be able to get a view of the village within the walls. Once he noticed the sight of Sin however, all of yoir's bravado changed. "Um, perhaps I should leave." yori said loudly, reminding himself of the last time they'd met. The last time he had seen the beast Sin, he had been on the hunt for his missing friend. He had journeyed into the damnable Omega Ruins in the search for the monster that he'd heard his friend was trying to slay. When he'd arrived however, there was a vicious beast trying to stop them, so they had put an end to it together. After that, it had faded and the true one was found, after an incredible search through the massive caverns. He had found Omega, a chanting man who had turned into a demon of malice, and although he didn't know the story behind Omega it had instantly engaged them in battle. But before he could do anything further against the beast, it had joined itself to the monster that he now saw inside the city, making a powerful fusion that was said to be an immortal god of death. yori wasn't one to be foolish, and casting his blade against the hide of a creature that was nearly the size of a village was something that he couldnt' do at this time. Even if he was a kage or wanted to prove himself capable of felling the nine tails fox and the like, it wasn't time for him to do something like that yet. He still had much more to accomplish, and it was entirely within his mind to escape now, and come back when the beast had been felled. He was still no elite after all...merely someone whose rate of growth would not be limited.
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Mass Replication:complete
Oodama Rasengan: complete
Uzumaki Naruto 2000 Hit Combo:complete
Exploding Shadow Clones:complete
Sleep Fighting Skill:complete
Leaf Thunder Fist:complete
Forward Lotus Technique:complete
Action:complete

Zodiac Formation: Rat Technique (Koudoutari Kessei: Ne no Jutsu) 500 Skill Points: (ANBU/HUNTER/MEDIC ONLY) After a three series of hand seals (Dragon, Boar, Rat) the user can expel a cloud of gray haze from their mouth, which serves several functions. One is it obscures the battlefield for 8 turns, making it difficult for both opponents to see. In the first 2 turns, if not guarded or healed, the gray haze is actually a poison that can kill the opponent (need to throw 1 die, 10 sided, on 8th post, if 1 or 10, the person lives)

Once the ANBU trainer was finished with his set of Handseals, a sound was beginning to reverberate in his ears. His innate techniques of genjutsu deflection was a bit too powerful for him to be stuck in it. But the technique itself was powerful enough to disorient Komen. Komen couldn't hear anything except the chirping of a thousand birds in his ears. It was almost deafening as his eye was twitching. He was trying to keep it together as this sound was reverberating within his head. It only aided to piss Komen off in a way since this was very annoying. Komen had memorized the handseals as the effects were beginning to fade away. He was glad as the sound had finally stopped. he breathed a sigh of relief as he shook his head a bit as the sound gave him a small yet pounding head ache. "I thinkI got it. I will try it on you now ANBU sensei." He said as the ANBU trainer nodded. The Anbu trainer was bracing himself as Komen was beginning to accomplish the technique. With each moment that passed, Komen was performing a quick set of handseals. This technique required little handseals, but it did require a good deal of concentration to be performed accurately. A few moments later, Komen was performing the technique. The Anbu, not being as powerful as Komen was struck with the base portion of the technique. Komen watched as the Anbu tactician was getting struck with the base technique as he was groaning in pain.

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Drago's walk had lead him here for some reason. He decided to eat here. TO grab a cup of ramen and be along on his way. There was another creature stirring and he could feel it in his bones. His claws tooked in but his sword in hand. He didn't feel like being bothered. So he formed a simple handseal. He changed his appearance to his original Aburame look. Red glasses and all. He looked at leaf and it felt good to be here again. He remembered all the things this village had did for him. He remembered all the bad things too. He remembered dieing for this village. He remembered protecting this village. He remembered Killing for this village. He remember this village labeling his a Missing Nin. He remembered all of this but still he didn't mind being here. He missed it sometimes. He held up no hope for big villages like this though. They always ended up killing themselves.

"I am home."

He wlaked to ramen stand and ordered a bowl of vegetable Ramen. He ate it slowly and only looked out. Resting for now.