Katsu vs Circa

[Katsumaru]

Starting Distance: 25 M
Arena Size: 100 x 100 Meters

T’was the sweetest of dawns, the sun smiling with her reserved glory, basking the world in a soothing warmth.

T’was the sweetest of dawns, the wind’s tender, yet firm howl revebrating through the lime-drapped forest.

T’was the sweetest of dawns, the leaves in their delicate dance, swaying from side to side, jade-smile everlasting.

Hi no Kuni was filled with an unmatched beauty this dawn, the song of the birds intermingling with the howls and yelps of the wild-life, creating a melody transcended, a reminder of the splendor of the natural world. Amongst this beauty, two men lurked, destined to end the glamour. For soon, the forest will be filled with the damning ring of steel, the odor of burnt and bleeding flesh.

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Trees covered the grounds at sporadic distances, some only a few meters apart while others were seperated by greater distances. A single clearing was within this forest, fifteen meters long and wide. Jiyuu stood at the center of this clearing.

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[KEITH]

A young shinobi had traveled through the country of Hi no Kuni, as if he were looking for something that had called out to him. It was in his blood, his very soul, the meaning for his very existence! He would surely find something here in Hi no Kuni that he was supposed to do, as he would travel through the great forests of the country. Vast trees all around had covered the country green, and soon, the young shinobi would be standing twenty five meters away from what was calling out to him.

His eyes would have set upon his oppositions, though, he wouldn't be actually able to see his eyes from twenty five meters away, but he could see his figure and where he eyes would be. He had known why the two men would meet here, it was distance, and they were about to erupt into battle at any given moment.

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[Katsumaru]

A foe. The Hokage wasted no moment as the chakra began to pour this his lithe, muscled figure. A ten meter mass of paper fluttered forth from his body, moving at the rapid speed of ten meters per second. It was highly compressed, the gathering of parchment much more massive than one would presume from a glance. The paper split into three sections, one moving up, one in a leftward arc, and the last in a rightward arc. The advantages of the Shikigami’s following actions were that they required no seals, leaving his hands free to begin their dance. Reaching for his belt in a flash, the Hokage pulled forth a kunai, the wrapped handle oddly white. With a flick of the wrist, the man released the kunai in an arc-like throw, force enhanced by the forward run which he initiated, blade aimed to land before the foe’s feet. Albeit, the throw was in a rushed manner, hence inaccurte.

Only half a second passed before the first technique reached completion, only after he had taken a few steps and while in the process of throwing the kunai, using the antecedently released paper as a base for the trickery that followed. Two shuriken formed on the left, two on the right, and one above at five meters, all darting at the opponent from their respective directions. Each of these shuriken was enormous, with a circular radius. Before the second was over, the five, ten meter shuriken approached from multiple directions, moving at a rate of ten meter per second.

Before the second technique was complete, Jiyuu finally erupted into a series of seals, hands moving in a blink. He possessed the ability to perform two techniques simultaneously, and with the shuriken alredy created, the man initiated his next maneuever before the paper armor was formed. Taking only half a second, the Shikigami called forth pape wings from his back which carried him only several centimeters into the air. The Hokage now, too, moved at the accelerated pace of ten meters per second.

The paper armor takes two seconds to form, and the chakra gathering for the shuriken and wings took only one second, alltogether. That last second was once again made slightly easier by the Shikigami’s ability to perform two techniques simultaneously, this one requiring no hand movement and following directly after the seals for the wings were completed. Paper formed around his hands, causing his fists to grow by six meters, drastically increasing the range of his blows should it come to hand to hand.

After the Hokage proceeded ten meters, not much time passing inbetween, the last of his techniques manifested, revealing itself in the thin layer of paper covering his figure in entirely. While it was simply paper, the parchment was highly durable, adding to the already sturdy defense of the ANBU armor he wore beneath.
This, all together, took scarcely over two seconds. In that instant which passed, the previously released masses of paper continued to approch, unless interrupted. As the paper, previously when called forth, was compressed, a substantial amount remained on all three fronts. By the time the paper armor was complete, the three masses were within five meters.

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Efficient Sealing II
Chakra Reduction I
Double Casting I

First Double Casting
Crafting Paper Skill; S
Paper Speed; S

Kami Yoroi no Jutsu (Paper Armor) [150 EXP]
Rank: A
Type: Ninjutsu, Defensive
Range: Self
Handseals: No.
Chakra: Very High
Special: Completely coats the user from head to toe in malleable paper armor which protects them from incoming damage. Maintaining the armor costs an additional low amount of chakra every turn. Defensive strength is equivalent to the user's rank of Crafting Paper Strength and Elemental Resistance.
Description: A thin and lightweight armor ninjutsu, this technique covers the user from head to toe in paper. When blended correctly with other Shikigami Ninjutsu, the opponent usually will be incapable of even telling that the user is guarded in this manner. Should the opponent attack the user, they will find the paper defense in the ready to absorb the blow. An attack of equal strength to the user's Crafting Paper Strength will break the armor, creating the need for the armor to be recast, while an attack of greater strength will pierce through the defense, damaging the user.
Domain: Shikigami

Pepa Shuriken no Jutsu (Paper Shuriken Technique) [250 EXP][Learned Five Times]
Rank: C
Type: Offensive / Secret Technique / Ninjutsu
Range: See special!
Handseals: No.
Chakra: Mid
Special: Size, strength and distance paper shuriken may travel depends on user's highest 'Hatoronshi no Kami' rank. Can shoot up to one shuriken, plus one more each time retrained.
Description: A simple, basic yet effective paper techniques, the user can take one or more paper creations of their own and turn them into deadly shuriken. Retaining their infamous paper strength, these shuriken are sent flying by the user's chakra alone, resulting in a deadly barrage of projectiles.
Domain: Shikigami. Hatoronshi no Kami 'C'.

Double Casting continued, used while the paper armor is forming

Pepa Tenshin no Kami (Paper Angel Wings) [125 EXP][Learned Five Times]
Rank: D
Type: Supplementary / Secret Technique / Ninjutsu
Range: See special!
Handseals: Yes.
Chakra: Low
Special: Grants the clan member wings that allow them to take flight. Size, strength of paper wings, as well as distance the user can over above and away from the ground, depends on user's highest 'Hatoronshi no Kami' rank. Cannot perform any other chakra related jutsu outside of clan techniques while wings are active. Wings are meant initially for hovering and not sustained flight, so they may be held for up to only one turn; however, one more turn of flight is gained each time retrained.
Description: After a few simple seals, the clan member can utilize their paper in order to create a flurry of wings meant for stable flight. The wings created by the user can be be any color, size, and type they wish, and will carry them across even the greatest of distances and chasms - as long as the user has enough chakra to continuously power it.
Domain: Shikigami. Hatoronshi no Kami 'D'.


Paper Fist [175 EXP]
Rank: D, C, B, A, S
Type: Offensive / Secret Technique / Ninjutsu
Range: See Special
Handseals: No
Chakra: Very Low-Very High
Special: Only one limb at a time can be covered in paper, with an additional limb for each new rank trained. Only limbs can be covered, and the strength and durability of the paper depends on the highest rank Paper Fist known. The paper remains on the limb for only one turn, plus one additional turn for each new rank. The user of this technique can only perform Shikigami techniques while Paper Fist is active. Additionally, the size of the paper fist is limited by the max paper size creation of Hatoronoshi no Kami.
Description: Tuser covers one or several limbs with sharpened paper, increasing the striking power. As the paper is rather sharp, it is capable of causing cuts, their deepness depending on the force with which the strike is made. The limb covered can also be used defensively, but the area will be destroyed by an attack equal to the highest rank of Hatoronoshi known.
Domain:Shikigami, Hatoronoshi no Kami; D-S

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[KEITH]

The shinobi didn't know what would happen in the next few moments, but he would prepare himself for whatever would happen. In the forest that they were stationed in, that was covered with many trees, it had also possessed some weakened branches, or logs that had lain upon the ground waiting to be used. It was thanks to the very insects of Hi no Kuni that would allow the shinobi to use their destruction as a scapegoat. About the same time chakra would have flown through his opponent, chakra would have rushed through the body of the shinobi, filling him up with chakra that he could use at any given moment.

He didn't know what his foe was capable of, but, he had known that he couldn't just wait for him to attack first; he would have to prepare a counter against him as soon as he possibly could. This would cause him to quickly form a single handseal, which would be completed in half of second, by the time he had completed the seal, he would have noticed a huge oncoming amount of paper coming his way, rushing. Was this his foe's technique? Did he utilize paper for his jutsu? He wouldn't know right away, at least until he had seen more paper creation form against the replacement that he had lift within his place.

When he used his replacement technique, and used it to move five meters away from it, to a tree that was to the upper right side of his replacement, once the replacement was completed, his chakra still focused within his body. He'd concentrate it into his feet, and without the need of handseals, he'd silently flicker away twenty meters from his position, gracefully moving along the tree branches, before the paper shuriken would form and hit the replacement. From his twenty meter distance from his original position, about fifteen meters away from his opponent still, who had proceeded ten meters into the direction of the replacement. The shinobi had tried to make sure that he would leave his opponent with a little surprise for attacking his replacement, he thought it would brighten up the day a bit, for him at least when the replacement would be hit.

In a complete ten meter radius around the replacement, a blinding white light would have been released; blinding the foe who was charging into the direction of the replacement, or at least it would try to, since he was seemingly only focused upon that position. While all of this would have taken place while the shinobi was twenty meters away from the flash of light, and his replacement and movement out of the direction of his foe probably unnoticed yet, he would have ran through a set of seals, enabling him to create to Moku Bunshin. It would merely take about two seconds to create them, around the time the other would reach the center of the explosion of light. While they were being formed, the shinobi would look on with focused eyes, the first clone (A) would be ahead of the shinobi five meters, preparing a set of handseals, while the other clone (B) would stand by the shinobi, preparing a set of seals as well.

While the shinobi would make him completely invisible and taking off even further into the forest, moving at top speeds.

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Replacement -> Very Low Consumption 1/10 [hs, 0 seconds]
Shunshin no Jutsu -> Low Consumption 2/2 [hs, 2 seconds]
MR: S-Rank -> Low Consumption [hs, 0 seconds]
Moku Bunshin -> Low Consumption 2/2 [hs, 2 seconds]

• Clone A -> Prepping
  
• Clone B -> Prepping
  

Invisiblity Cloak -> Very Low Consumption 1/1 [hs, 0 seconds]
Shinobi Speed -> No Consumption [3 meters per second]

HS = Hand Seals
By end of post, probably 23 meters away, and moving onward non-stop for now, though not out of the range of control of the clones.

[Katsumaru]

The light bomb erupted as Jiyuu was on the outskirts – it did not entirely blind him, but that, truly, did not matter, for the Shikigami’s next maneuver did not require him to see fully. The man broke off backwards before the clones –of whose creation the Hokage was unaware – were complete. By the time they formed in the distance, the Shikigami flew five meters back, and also completed the series of seals which took but half a second. Unknowingly, Jiyuu increased the distance between himself and the enemy, and was fifteen meters from the first clone.

Jiyuu released paper to the right and left several moments ago, which was five meters from the foe’s position before he moved. From these parchments, three clones, looking exactly like the foe formed, two to the left and one to the right, each five meters from where the opponent previously stood. Paper encircled the three clones, shrouding their creation – a stealthy maneuver further enhanced upon with the technique that followed, completed immediately after the clones were created. When the circling mass of paper fell to the grounds, nothing was left in their stead – the three bunshin camouflaged finely. The task was not notably difficult as the surrounding environment, which the man had seen before he was blinded, appeared quite monotonous.

The Shikigami continued with his flight backwards, yet another bundle of paper released before him, ten meters long and wide, obscuring him from the foe’s vision, should he have looked into that direction. By now he could see again – he was not fully blinded after all After reaching ten meters from the concealing paper, having diagonally to the right, the Hokage reached the outskirts of the bundles of paper floating before him. When they fell upon the floor, he too, was hidden from vision – the paper armor upon his figure camouflaged , blending him perfectly with the surroundings.

Both the Hokage and the clones, all vanished from sight, not a single trace remaining.

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Same Masteries

Paper Crafting Skill; S
Paper Speed; S
Double Casting First Set

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Giji Nakama no Jutsu (False Friend Technique) [50 EXP]
Rank: C Rank
Type: Ninjutsu
Range: See Special
Handseals: Yes.
Chakra Same as Pepa Bunshin.
Special: Creates a special Paper Clone of a person other than the user in order to trick and potentially attack the opponent. Clones can exist as far as the eye can see, or until the user leaves the thread, and take no additional chakra for upkeep. Clones move at speeds equal to the user's Pepa Speedo (Paper Speed), and can perform any Shikigami jutsu the user knows. Clones disperse and reform before being defeated. The number of these clones capable of being created is equal to the number of Paper Clones the user can create. Paper clones, like Kage Bunshin, share the user's chakra reserves.
Description: An offset of the Pepa Bunshin no Jutsu, this ability allows the user to create the appearance of someone other than him or herself. The created clone is usually an ally of an opponent that the user has already captured or disposed of. The point of the technique is to catch the opponent off guard, leaving them open to attack from the person they had assumed was their friend.

Kami Gisou (Paper Camouflage) [25 EXP]
Rank: D
Type: Ninjutsu, Supplementary
Range: ---
Handseals: No.
Chakra: Very Low
Special: Allows the user to cause his or her paper to change in a variety of ways, including different pigments and folds, in order to create optical illusions. This ability requires a series of handseals -or- the paper must be changed to a certain color/appearance while the user is creating it.
Description: One of the Shikigami's most dangerous talents is their ability to create a battlefield in advance that directly resembles the outside world. This ability, not a Genjutsu due to the fact that the user actually changes his or her paper's shapes and colors, allows the user to facilitate the appearance of just about anything, leaving the ability to cleverly trick and attack the opponent.
Domain: Shikigami

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Kami Gisou (Paper Camouflage) [25 EXP]
Rank: D
Type: Ninjutsu, Supplementary
Range: ---
Handseals: No.
Chakra: Very Low
Special: Allows the user to cause his or her paper to change in a variety of ways, including different pigments and folds, in order to create optical illusions. This ability requires a series of handseals -or- the paper must be changed to a certain color/appearance while the user is creating it.
Description: One of the Shikigami's most dangerous talents is their ability to create a battlefield in advance that directly resembles the outside world. This ability, not a Genjutsu due to the fact that the user actually changes his or her paper's shapes and colors, allows the user to facilitate the appearance of just about anything, leaving the ability to cleverly trick and attack the opponent.
Domain: Shikigami
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[KEITH]

The shinobi had landed twenty-six meters away from his original point, by the time his foe would have fled back fifteen meters away from his where he would stand, though he didn't reach the center of the light bombs area. He would only come up short, about fifteen meters away from where the shinobi would have originally been. The shinobi wouldn't had known with his foe had done, due to him not paying attention as he would create more distance between the two, a total of forty-one meters away from each other, if they were directly in front of each other, but by the time the shinobi would have reached the twenty-sixth meters, he'd stop and quickly turn to face in the original direction of which he had ran from. And, now, his foe would have been down fifteen meters to the left of him, and forty-one meters in front of him.

He had known that if he had stayed too far away from him, he wouldn't be able to affect him in any kind of way, not attacking or defending, nor could he even see him for that matter. But, he had also stayed invisible, far away from his two shinobi, but almost six meters from clone B, and eleven meters from clone A. Fortunately, they wouldn't have totally been out of the loop, due to clone A having been able to see them before they all would camouflage, and the area the main user would have went to before he had disappeared. And, when he had seen that, clone A had silently moved about the forest, staying high width the tree's, using the lustrous leaves to hide his appearance.

As soon as he would have moved back the fifteen meters, now being twenty-one meters from clone A, and fifteen meters down to the left of him, he'd have immediately moved after him, and luckily, the forest was covered in tree's all around, no big gap and any real gap in between them at all. Moving three meters per second into that area at a diagonal to the left of him, moving like a swift, yet stealthful shinobi, when two seconds would have passed, he would have reached six meters into his area, and now he would unleash the jutsu he had prepared. If the shinobi would have still been in the area he had moved into for two and a half seconds, clone A would have placed his hands upon the tree he was hidden in, sending his chakra down through it and into the ground instantly. Around the area he had believed the target to still be in, large beams of wood would quickly emerge from the grounds below where he would figure the target to still is.

And the beams would cover a fifty meter area of where he would have last seen him move to, and the beams of wood, if they would have caught him, would have concealed him within a large wooden trap. Clone B and the shinobi would continue to watch on from the distance as clone A would go to work at trying to capture the creator, since he was the last to see them. The technique that clone A would have chosen to use with allow him to remain his stealth within the tree's, unless the foe had some type of chakra sensing ability, other than that, there would have been no tail tell signs of who had done it, or where they was, plus, the shinobi still possessed a bit of the upper hand. Since, at least he would have known that the target had created clones; he had used some sort of technique to stay hidden, and seen the last place he would have moved to.

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MR: S-Rank -> Low Consumption
Jubaku Eisou: A-rank - Mid Consumption - 50m/S-rank defense

[Katsumaru]

Evasion fell rather simple, for the trees moved at five meters per second and Jiyuu, flying upwards, ascended at ten meters per second. The shinobi continually descended, and by the end of his flight would be fifty meters in the air, but as he ascended, several things commenced, specificially the formation of hand seals taking but half a second, completeld after he flew up only five meters. The seals were two-fold, both performing the same technique – in total, they called forth fourty senbon, each in a rather curious shape, wider than they were long – nine meters wide and only one meter long. The fourty senbon were each ten meters apart, covering a total radius of fifty meters, finely controlled – so was the affinity of the Shikigami. Due to the numerous amount of senbon, they came in three waves – each of those with the aforemention fifty meter radius, all descending from above in an arc. The area covered was massive, and moving at the speed of ten meters per second, the curiously shaped paper senbon were surely mighty enough to break through numerous trees – at least not those enhanced by chakra. Unbeknowest to Jiyuu, the foe was fourty-something meters away, he did not know his location, but he was certain that his foe was somewhere there – and due to the Shikigami’s uncertainty, he chose to let his attack cover such a large area.


The clones, vaguely, revealed their shape as they too begun their handseals to perform the same technique, again taking only half a second. But they held their seals, allowing the paper to fly high, to twenty meters –that taking two seconds . Upon reaching that height, the paper formed into senbon once again, much the same shape, once again covering a radius of fifty meters. One mass of paper flew ahead ten meters, the second twenty, and transforming into the senbon almost immediately upon having covered the distance, covering the radius of fifty meters in three waves. Due to being ahead further than the senbon released by Jiyuu, they covered an area further back. The first wave’s reached ten meters further than the senbon Jiyuu released, and the second wave’s end reached fifteen meters further. The waves that followed fell in the same manner.

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Efficient Sealing II
Chakra Reduction I
Double Casting I

Paper Crafting Skill; S
Paper Speed; S

Used by Jiyuu


Paper Senbon [200 EXP][Learned Four Times][Twice]
Rank: C
Type: Offensive / Secret Technique / Ninjutsu
Range: See Special
Handseals: Yes
Chakra: Mid
Special: The size and distance of the technique depends on the user’s highest “Hatoronshi no Kami” rank. Only five senbon can be created, with an additional five for every time retrained to a maximum of twenty
Description: After performing hand seals, the Shikigami creates five senbon from a single sheet of paper, their range, size, and number depends on several factor, but one remains the same. They are only as dangerous as real senbon, incapable of cutting deeper or causing fatal wounds.
Domain: Shikigami, Hatoronoshi no Kami; C

Used By Both Clones

Paper Senbon [200 EXP][Learned Four Times][Twice Each]
Rank: C
Type: Offensive / Secret Technique / Ninjutsu
Range: See Special
Handseals: Yes
Chakra: Mid
Special: The size and distance of the technique depends on the user’s highest “Hatoronshi no Kami” rank. Only five senbon can be created, with an additional five for every time retrained to a maximum of twenty
Description: After performing hand seals, the Shikigami creates five senbon from a single sheet of paper, their range, size, and number depends on several factor, but one remains the same. They are only as dangerous as real senbon, incapable of cutting deeper or causing fatal wounds.
Domain: Shikigami, Hatoronoshi no Kami; C

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[KEITH]

I surrender to you, Katsu.