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As a genin, you take the Chunnin Exams to pass.

As a Chunnin, you take the Jounin Exams to pass.

And as a Jounin, you can make an effort to join the Black Ops, or you can fight the current village leader for the rights to become the village leader or Kage.

I would but Its not my job o.o I can't judge them fairly enough....

Well let's see there's the type of death where, someone kills you and just leaves the body on the ground. After being dead for a day you can return to your body. You don't remember how you died or the fact that you died at all really.

Then there's the case where you die and your body is destroyed. In that case you have to be reborn into a new body, it could even be an exact replica of your last one or it could be from a whole other clan. Either way you don't remember any of your past, or at least the main parts, you might get fragments here and there, but until you encounter someone or something that might trip the lock on your memories you won't remember who you were previously. If you revive into a body almost identical to the one you had before regaining your memories wouldn't really be a problem considering your family would still remember you.

OOOh wait I read the question wrong... one moment please.

REAL Answer: Of course you can revive. I brought you back to life for a moment and killed you again. Your soul is still in the afterlife. It's just that I have a soulless copy of your body now. You won't be able to revive to your original body since I'm going to see that it's destroyed, but you can revive into one just like it or one from another clan. You keep your techniques if that's what your second question is asking, but Pride knows them as well up to the point of your death as well. Anything you learn after won't pass to him.

Made up jutsu is simply a technique you make up yourself.

Skill points take a bit more explanation. When you do 5 lines of rping, you get 100 skill points. So if a technique cost 400 skill points to learn, you need to write 20 lines of role playing. Simple no? You then post up your training in the training completion and mods like me will convert those skill points into chakra points and add it to your total chakra as well as add the technique to your list.

Well you label it in intervals of 500 points and when you post it up in training completion, us mods make sure it meets the length requirement. Ex:

1 Line of training khfaksdfhasjvkldrgoisjfvgrsjpfjca;ldfsjepofjesofvedzsjegvo
2 Line of training sdkfhsfklhnefjselgnsdhlfslkfwejoijeoifhoshdflejifoehfeldjfofj
3 Line of training flizsfsdoilfvhklvijadolsfkcvjdgkljsjgfmlosegfnmoeiofgedgr
4 Line of training gfshoighnskdgvnsjoierhfeiojegkfnhdfiovbhidefvjhofgiehdn
5 Line of training shfihsezngvikfoldnhgijehgolehgoeihfeleskdheaoitgjesdofiha

1/ however many skill points it is to learn a technique.

Well you can leave the academy as long as you've learned at least one technique....unfortunately there arn't enough members to form squads D: