[ST2 - R1] Chiron v. Izumi

[King]

the Arena

[/b] have any form of jutsu prepared in your introductory post, and you may not attack until the second round of posting (i.e after your introduction posts). Chiron posts first.[/ul][/justify][/blockquote][/blockquote]

[susumu]

“aaaah.”

The boy breathed as he strode through the ruined city. Never before had he seen such destruction, it almost appeared natural. Boulders large and small scattered here and there, and cements blocks were about like large rectangles. As Chiron proceeded deeper into the city the debris lessened until he came to its center. The center was circular with a stone platform (one meter elevated and thick respectively) with a torii gate in its center, from which many talismans and ornaments hung. In the immediate vicinity were buildings, short and tall (the tallest no more than five meters in height).

Chiron stood on the platform near the western edge facing the east with a clear visage of his surroundings.

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height: five feet
weight: 80lbs
inventory: three windmill (fuuma) shuriken
taijutsu prim, 2x massive chakra and mastery's disabled. blah blah

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MASTERY
Tier One - Calcium Efficiency: Through vigorous training, the Kaguya clan member has learned to reduce the amount of chakra required to manipulate their bone structure. Because of this, the cost of all Kaguya based techniques are reduced by one tier (including the amount required to "sustain" the technique).

Tier Two - Calcium Attrition: Widely considered masters of taijutsu due to their natural affinity for hand to hand combat, the Kaguya clan are renowned for pushing their bodies to limit, indefinitely increasing their capabilities. From this, the users have developed a way to use their Tessenka no Ma (Dance of the Clematis), and all of its sub-techniques (Flower and Vine), twice a day, opposed to the traditional one.

Tier Three - Kaiyou no Mai, the Sixth Dance: Having mastered the art of their kekkei genkai, becoming artists in the dance of warfare, the user has learned to unlock the sixth and final dance: Kaiyou no Mai. Under the influence of this fabled dance, the user is capable of exercising two Kaguya-clan techniques simultaneously.

Akuin (Corpsebone Rooting)
Rank: D
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: -
Chakra Consumption: Low
Although basic, this jutsu is the commencement of the Kaguya’s bone manipulation to a hardness that will serve them for their own greater good. Once sensing they are losing by balance by extreme measures, such as strong wind currents or even blasts of energy, they will allow their bones to pierce their feet and into the ground, branching off underground in a form of hyper-growth based on the rooting of strong tree. From this point they shall remain until they choose to move on.

Hone Tsume (Violent Claw)
Rank: D
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Offensive
Handseals: -
Chakra Consumption: Low to cast and sustain
Using the power their blood has granted them, the Kaguya can cause their knuckles to push forward, outward from the hand and sharpening, working as a kind of claw-like weapon. This can also be done from the fingertips, allowing the bones within the finger to extend outward as opposed to the knuckle. These are excellent for quick, slashing attacks.

Note: The bone claws may grow up to a maximum of twelve inches.

Shikotsumyako (Dead Bone Pulse)
Rank: C
Range: -
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: -
Chakra Consumption: Mid (optional)
The primary attribute of the Kaguya clan’s bones is that they are seemingly indestructible. They have been shown to be able to withstand severe amounts of pressure (sand burial and giant sand burial), as well as immunity to splitting beneath lacerations of any traditional caliber. This is the true gift of the Kaguya clan, allowing them to use themselves as both a shield and a weapon. For a taijutsu-specialized clan, there is no greater achievement.

Note: This technique was created solely for the sake of limitations. While the Kaguya clan do possess stronger than natural bones, it is this technique that must be employed to allow them to withstand truly unnatural levels of force (such as sand burial). This technique can be employed at any time, presuming the user has the chakra to facilitate it. However, it should be noted that truly devastating abilities (things like Kirin) will still cause unparalleled damage to the user.

Teshi Sendan (Ten Finger Drilling Bullets)
Rank: C
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m), Mid (5m ~ 10m), Far (10m+)
Type: Offensive
Handseals: -
Chakra Consumption: Mid
One of the only long-ranged techniques in the Kaguya’s arsenal, this allows them to “reach” their opponent even if not with their own hand. Through intense control of their body’s muscle and skeletal system, the muscles in the Kaguya’s fingertips begin to contract, pushing the bone in the fingertip out through the surface of the skin. At the users will, the bones will fire off as drilling bullets. These bones are powerful tools, capable of drilling through most standard defenses.

Note: The chakra cost applies to firing all ten bullets (one for each finger). However, even if a user decides to shoot only one bullet from a single finger, the cost does not lessen.

Tsubaki no Mai (Dance of the Camellia)
Rank: C
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Offensive
Handseals: -
Chakra Consumption: Mid
Tsubaki no Mai is the second of five dance forms. Using the Kaguya’s corpsebone ability to manipulate their bone structure, the user will remove a long bone in the form of a sword from their shoulder. Because of the bloodline, the density of the bone can be increased many times so that it is as hard as steel. The user then stabs chaotically and continuously which causes the opponent’s eyes to lag behind; the speed resembles afterimages, the hand with the sword is again and again visibly projected.

And yet the movement is irregular which makes it difficult to predict (for a normal eye, and beginning and secondary Sharingan). With each thrust the sword’s track is very capable of changing; the attack comes from unexpected angles, causing a person’s delicate defense reaction to come off guard.

Note: The sword in question cannot exceed a claymore in size. Furthermore, it should be noted that despite being as hard and durable as steel, this bone is virtually weightless.

Yanagi no Mai (Dance of the Willow)
Rank: B
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Offensive
Handseals: -
Chakra Consumption: 2x Mid to cast, Low to sustain
The first of the five Kaguya dances. Using the abilities of their bloodline, the user will grow and multiple long, sharp bones from various parts of their body (one through each palm; one out of each elbow; one out of each knee, arching up; one from the back at the shoulder blades). These staves extend up to moderate lengths (one foot) and are razor sharp. Using fluid and precise movements, they will then proceed to impale their opponents much like an unpredictable, shaking willow tree.

Karamatsu no Mai (Dance of the Larch)
Rank: B
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Offensive
Handseals: -
Chakra Consumption: 2x Mid to cast, Mid to sustain
Karamatsu no Mai is the third of five dance forms. After activating their special chakra that allows them free-flowing bone manipulation, the Kaguya will begin to extend multiple bones from their body, protruding almost instantly from their flesh and out their rib cage, radius and ulna. Because they are hard as steel, these bones can act as a strong defensive mechanism against incoming strikes. Due to this they will also serve as an offensive attack to allow the Kaguya to move with little effort to impale their opponents.

Note: This technique essentially allows the user to cover a very large portion of their body in foot long pikes of hard-as-steel bone. This not only allows the user to effectively defend themselves more easily, but attack as well (see image).

Tessenka no Ma (Dance of the Clematis)
Rank: A
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: -
Chakra Consumption: High (per half of the technique), Mid to sustain
The fourth dance of the Kaguya style, Tessenka no Ma is separated into two separate parts: the Vine and the Flower. Both are used in conjunction with each other for optimal effectiveness against an opponent, because as how one is virtually useless without the other. The vine portion of the technique involves the Kaguya user removing their spinal cord, a process which drastically increases its length as they do so (up to five meters long) in an effort to use as an incredibly potent whip. The second half, known as the flower, involves condensing a very large portion of bone with a very high amount of chakra, and then enveloping one of the user’s arm in this sheath-of-a-pike-like weapon. Due to its size, and the sheer amount of power put into creating it, the “flower” is harder than any steel and can easily pierce even the most impressive barriers.

Note: In order for the user to effectively use this technique, they will need to offer an increment of 2x High to in order to produce both the “vine” and “flower” aspect of the jutsu. By offering just a single High, they user will be able to choose which portion of the technique they wish to manifest; they can, at any time this technique is active, bring forth the other half (though it will still cost them the chakra requirement).

The moment that a user refuses to fuel the drain of this technique, the bone used to facilitate it will instantly shatter into harmless fragments.

Sawaribi no Mai (Dance of the Seedling Fern)
Rank: S
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m), Mid (5m ~ 10m), Far (10m+)
Type: Offensive
Handseals: -
Chakra Consumption: Massive
Sawarabi no Mai is the fifth and final dance of the Kaguya style. After activating their highest level of special chakra, the Kaguya quickly grows a multitude of tall spikes from their body to create a large forest of bones; this bone genesis takes place incredibly quick, and since it shares the unique bloodline trait that renders the Kaguya user’s bones as hard as steel, they will move effortlessly to strike anything in their path and render it a slashed up mush. While in this form, the Kaguya can merge into the bone trees to attack their target from whichever spike they want to, moving at frightening speeds from within their fortress of ivory.

Note: Unlike the series, this bone forest will be dramatically reduced in size. Rather than an entire expansion of rolling hills, this bone forest will expand up to a maximum of twenty-five meters in all directions (this means in height, as well). The ability to merge with this forest will only be viable for five posts following the forests creation. Furthermore, this ability takes a full post of preparation (in which no other jutsu may be cast).

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Atsuryoku Yashi (Pressure Palm)
Rank: A
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Offensive
Handseals: -
Chakra Consumption: 2x High
Delivers a powerful open palmed strike to the humerus, radius, or the celiac plexus. The result of the high powered strike will jar the network of nerve endings within the body, causing disorientation and confusion lasting some time.

Note: Heavy disorientation lasts up to 3 turns (this means operating at 50% capacity in all aspects, including sight and hearing). This technique was created by Shintarou.

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Goken (Strong Fist)
Rank: D
Range: -
Type: Passive
Handseals: -
Chakra Consumption: Low
Strong Fist is a Taijutsu style, the purpose of which is to cause extreme forms of external damage to a target, alongside breaking as many bones as possible. It is the exact opposite of the Gentle Fist, which is used exclusively by the Hyuuga clan. This style of fighting involves smashing your opponent and is generally used only by extremely physically powerful and dominating shinobi.

Note: For a Low increment of chakra, Goken practitioners can marginally raise the destructive force of any standard attack (non-jutsu) they perform; each strike will have a 10% chance to break the target’s bones. This cannot stack with the Goken Tier 3 Mastery, Tekken.

Konoha Kaiganshou (Leaf Rock-Destroying Rise)
Rank: B
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Offensive
Handseals: -
Chakra Consumption: Mid
One of the more powerful offensive techniques of the Goken style, this is a taijutsu technique where the user smashes their elbow into their opponent using the other arm as support. It deals a powerful blow to the target and as the name suggests, is even strong enough to destroy coral. Connecting with a human body yields much more devastating results, and can easily shatter bones beneath the inhuman pressure.

Note: This technique has a 25% chance to shatter the target’s bones of whatever area the user strikes. Likewise, this technique can easily dismantle thick, jagged walls of stone and coral.

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Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Replacement Technique)
Rank: E
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: 0
Chakra Consumption: Low
Kawarimi no Jutsu is an Academy Ninjutsu technique. When in danger the user will quickly substitute themself with another nearby object - generally a block of wood, but sometimes even another person - the moment an attack lands. This creates an optical illusion, making the enemy think the attack was successful. From this, the user can use the lapse in the enemy's attention to attack or flee from the battlefield. Explosvie tags can be attached to the placement for an added surprise!

Note: Switch is near-instantaneous. The technique can only be used once per turn.


Henge no Jutsu (Transformation Technique)
Rank: E
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: 3
Chakra: Low, Low (upkeep)
Henge no Jutsu is an Academy Ninjutsu technique. After performing a set of handseals, the user takes on the form of another object, whether it be an animal, plant, or inanime object. This transformation is exactly like the genuine article, so it is impossible to tell the two apart without special methods.

Note: The user can transform themself into an object of average, small, or miniature size. This means that one cannot Henge into a bijuu, summon, or other gigantic object.


Bunshin no Jutsu (Clone Technique)
Rank: E
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: 3
Chakra: Low (per clone)
Bunshin no Jutsu is an Academy Ninjutsu technique. After performing a set of handseals, the user creates an intangible copy of themself. This clone has no substance, so it is not able to attack, and thus can only be used to confuse the enemy. It is mainly used in combination with other ninjutsu. These clones can be easily distinguished by opponents with doujutsu, but even opponents with normals eyes can tell tell it apart from the original if they are observant, as the clone does not have a shadow and will not disrupt the area aroun themself with their movement. As soon as this clone comes in contact with an opponent or gets attacked, it will dispurse.

Note: The clone's movement speed is equal to the user's. Bunshin cannot mold chakra to perform jutsu, nor can they physically harm an opponent.


Kakuremino no Jutsu (Cloak of Invisibility Technique)
Rank: E
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: -
Chakra: Low, Low (upkeep)
Kakuremino no Jutsu is an Academy Ninjutsu technique that allows the user to take a cloak or a piece of cloth and infuse it with their chakra, allowing them to blend into the background. This creates an optical illusion where the user is basically invisible to the naked eye.

Note: No other techniques can be used while disguised.


Nawanuke no Jutsu (Rope Escape Technique)
Rank: E
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: -
Chakra: Low
Nawanuke no Jutsu is an Academy Ninjutsu technique. Should the user be tied up by normal ropes, they can exert a small amount of chakra to frey their bindings and effectively escape.

Note: Ineffective against complex, electrionic, or unique binds.


Kinobori no Waza (Act of Tree Climbing)
Rank: E
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: -
Chakra: Low, Low (upkeep)
Kinobori no Waza is an Academy Ninjtusu technique. By focusing a small amount of chakra to the bottom of their feet, the user can climb a tree (or other vertical wall) without utilizing their hands. This technique has a dual purpose, since it is the perfect way to increase skills with chakra control - if the stream of chakra is too weak, the user will loose their footing; if the stream is too strong, the user will be pushed away from the surface.


Suimen Hokou no Waza (Act of Water Surface Walking)
Rank: E
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: -
Chakra: Low, Low (upkeep)
Suimen Hokou no Waza is an Academy Ninjutsu technique, and is a variant of Kinobori no Waza. By emitting a constant stream of chakra from the bottom of their feet and using this repllent force, the user is able to walk across the water's surface. This technique is vastly more difficult than its counterpart because the amount of chakra that needs to be focused changes constantly, but it helps to build chakra control in the user. After much practice, it is even possivle to 'skate' across the water's surface instead of just walking or running.

Note: The user must know Kinobori no Waza in order to use this technique.

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[luneth]

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Breezing toward the ruin's center, my eyes caught the contrast of vegetation peaking through the disheveled bed of grey and white; I motioned to elude them, my mind progressing from the scenery and toward more imperative matters - namely, what brought me here.

I spotted his figure first from the opposite side of the center clearing, and eventually atop the eastern platform. I faced west, taking in the vicinity once more before my featureless eyes fell upon his own, calming my mind in preparation for our friendly, albeit competitive match - round one of the 2nd Annual Shinobi Tournament - which was bound to commence soon.

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all jutsu and measurements listed in bio.
taijutsu primary + 2x massive.
masteries disabled.

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Rank: C
Type: Primary / Sword / Melee
Description: A heavy two-handed zanbatō (which literally translates to "horse-slaying sword" or "horse-chopping saber"), this heavy-blade is the starting weapon of anyone truly dedicated to the art of Ju Kenshi. Typically very wide and very large, they are individually made to be 1/3 the total weight of their user, but are rather basic in design.
Note: Stored in Kuchiyose seal (left palm).
Cost: 5,000 Ryo

Shikami-Te (Hand Of Ankou)
Rank: S
Type: Primary / Melee
Special: While dormant, the razor-sharp, prickly metals lining the knuckles, fingertips, and palm act to stack C-ranked damage onto any physical strike made by the right hand. In need of repair if directly struck by one S-ranked technique. While capable of harnessing nearly any release, it is simply a medium, restricted by its wielder's specific releases. See below for more!

• Due to its nature, the expending of a single 'High' amount of chakra ('Mid' Upkeep) will raise the weapon from its dormant state, then acting as a medium for most types of chakra (no Kekkai Touta), harnessing them, in turn stacking B-ranked elemental damage (lightning, sound vibration, etc.) onto any physical strike made by the right hand (applies to swords as well).
  
  
• As a catalyst and extreme impetus for chakra, feeding the gauntlet a single 'High' amount ('Mid' Upkeep) will give it a push, supplying the weapon with energy, and consequently unleashing its full potential. Depending upon the user's own releases, the gauntlet carries the ability to increase their offensive power by one tier (A-rank max.), and increase range by five meters.
  
  
• Following a 'High' consumption ('Mid' Upkeep), a wide, blade-like beam of pure chakra is capable of being extended out from the gauntlet's four fingertips when elongated (i.e. knife hand/ karate chop form), its maximum length measuring two meters in total, with a speed of two meters per second. The beam is easily capable of piercing through steel and most armors (non-relic).

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Description: Appearing to be the combination of both a gauntlet and sap glove, the black material primarily composing this arcane weapon is unknown, though has proven to be extremely responsive when exposed to chakra, and appears/feels to be both durable and flexible. While the specific type is unknown, it is obvious that some kind of metal, its color ranging from deep black to dark grey, lines the palm area, each individual fingertip, and knuckle region in a jagged, barbed like fashion, these spiked, prickly metals protuding anywhere from a quarter inch to half inch in length, while extremely thin in width. It bears several odd markings, though the most prominent and identifiable being a Jashinistic symbol located on its the front. Fitting tightly along the hand's contours, it would seem to be an ordinary black glove from afar, giving it the power of subtlety.
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[susumu]

Chiron’s figure was neither cloaked nor hidden; he was clad in a simple white hakama with red clothing underneath secured by a red obi sash. At either ends of his person were large rings, one at each side, and one behind his back all fastened by the sash. They were all he had to offer as far as weapons went, the three unfolded windmill shuriken.

“Aaaaah!”

He breathed again hastily as he saw his opponent to his front, though 30 meters across from him on the other side. The appearance of shadowed figure meant only one thing, his opponent! And the start of the round, the tournament, friendly or competitive, the Kaguya was after one thing: blood. The thought of it filled him with purpose and an apparent bloodlust to his red eyes. Oh how he anticipated the feeling, as his hands would penetrate the man again and again, but first things first. The distance would have to be cut fast and so he sprinted forward, left hand over his stomach grabbing onto the ring at his right.

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Chiron would be ten (10) meters forward by the end of this post or fifteen (15) to get things moving faster, you can decide on which.

[luneth]

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15 is fine.

I advanced in step with the white and red-clad ninja's opening motion; his first pace eastward would see my own motioning directly south-west (at a left diagonal, from Izumi's point-of-view). My corporeal potency and perception of the area became absolute at the acceleration of my five-meter tear – which realized its purpose at the base of a rather sizeable (5m x 2m x 1.5m (L x W x H)) mass of wreckage, one of the few dotting our thirty meter vicinity, though certainly the most substantial from my segment of the intermediary gate.

The rectangular chunk of cement was positioned slant-wised (x), half of its length sunken somewhat into the cracked earth, and facing the center structure. Upon my arrival, which took place as my opponent had traveled ten meters himself, it might have seemed as if I was attempting to hide behind it, which, at its lowest point, was taller than my now ducking position. I would be out of his sight as he neared the center, though surely he'd seen me move behind the thick block.

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¹ byakugan – low.
² ________
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[susumu]

Pumped! Bloodlust, excitement and anticipation fueled the young Kaguya as his linear sprint reached the ten-meter mark, his opponent having advanced simultaneous with his own movement, although diagonally in its approach. The rectangular slab of cement rooted in an upward slant in the cracked earth seemed to be Izumi’s destination. He was intending to hide, the coward! Chiron’s eyes narrowed as Izumi did just that hide behind the slab, his hand withdrew the shuriken from his right. In a flick three curved blades spread forth from the initial blade, locked – unfurled into the windmill shuriken.

Reaching twelve meters a simple charge (cocking his hand back) launched the shuriken forward at the cement. Cutting into the rectangular block in a horizontal fashion, the blade making a considerable indent (one foot and a half) as the rest of the blades faced Chiron. Chiron used the momentum of his sprint to boost its movement, after which he continued on his sprint, though noticeably slower, cautious – alert.

[luneth]

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I'm assuming you are sprinting towards my character, not the stone platform he was on before (because of the direction you threw the Fūma Shuriken). Throwing it after sprinting 12 meters would mean the shuriken had to travel ~10-15 meters to reach the cement; because you saw the indent it made (while continuing your sprint) I'm assuming you'd be much closer to me by the end of your post (I think 10 meters away is fair).

Rapt and vigil, the thinnest of my screened extensions inclined themselves in direct relation with my opponent's own, albeit stymied by lengths and materials drastic in difference. My varnished results were stilled closeby, and I was static once more, lingering as his ungainly round of unretracted blades soared through the still air, journeying toward my sizeable guard.

I rummaged through the dry soil, beneath the compact mass submerged by it in sync with the projectile's contravening of five meters, finished even before the resounding 'clang' from the side opposite me. As it sounded, and in a single, flowing motion, I freed the heaping block, heightening it's less-elevated side before my metacarpus' raced toward its mid-section, guiding its future direction with an extremely potent thrust. From lift to push, the entire maneuver would span less than a second, aided wholly by my fifteen-fold increase in strength.

Shooting ahead mere inches from the ground, weaving motions shadowed it by two meters. Its velocity in correlation with its size would more than likely seem otherworldy to Chiron, who himself was shorter than the block, and less than eight meters from it at the commencement of its propel.

He'd be left to assume I had somehow caused its sudden surge forward, in line to collide with him directly in no more than two seconds – less, most likely. While my vision encompassed all, a piece of wreckage not far away (three meters left), and roughly my size was acknowledged in particular. I was calm, but impatient; my opponent's next move would more than likely decide his fate.

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¹ byakugan – low.
² katainigiri – high.
³ ________
⁴ ________
⁵ ________

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[King]

Vermillion has missed the IIC. Luneth wins.