The aftermath [T]

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So- this was Hi no Kuni, right? Interesting place. As far as the plantlife and greenery was concerned, it reminded her of home, although she couldn't say that it was better in comparison with the lush tropical greens which had once run riot in Kusa no kuni- The wildness of the plantlife there was something that Blanche herself enjoyed seeing- Here, it did have that degree of wildness, but not so much. Here it was mostly just plain forests probably filled with deer and foxes. In Kusa, they had beautiful birds, strange animals which were unseen of in other countries- It was different to other places, and now it was gone.
She could remember the flames licking at the houses of her home quite vividly- It had been imprinted within her mind, but, it's what war brought, and in the end, the destruction of some of the houses within Kusa had been invietable, but, to wreck a whole village, she could never have guessed that would have happened.
But there wasn't that much that she could do about it now- As far as her fate lay now, she was simply a wanderer, still bearing the proudness of the village upon her back, shown by the headband that she wore around her neck but, she simply lacked a village- And she wasn't intent on joining another one either. No- She could never do that. Not for her beloved Kusagakure. She would return- When she was able to. But, moving about the world, she was not in search of a home, but instead simply in search of places that she could stay for the night. Today, it had been decided that Hi no Kuni shall be the place that she would linger for a few days, where she could perhaps train a little bit, and maybe explore the land.

So, what a better place to get started? With her right hand raising and flicking the layer of hair that sometimes fell upon her eyes, she would look around her, until she came to a clearing that she deemed fit enough to train in, the land lying quite flat with no obstacles- It was obvious that someone had trained there before, as some of the trees seemed to have strange dents in them, and there was a campfire, burnt out a little bit to the west.

But, nonetheless- She was here to train.

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So- It had been quite a while now since she had last trained anything. The past few days of her life had revolved around simply travelling about to say the very truth, and so, she had swayed away from training anything. But now she had found herself a nice little area to train in which bore quite a familiar environment to that which she so dearly missed within her home of Kusa no Kuni- A land no more, it was more of a wasteland the last time she had seen it- Which, to be fair, was nears ago. But, with her mind now set towards training, she might as well go forwards to do so. The blonde would clear her throat slightly, before then stretching her arms out slightly in front of her, in preparation to form the handseals which were needed if the technique was to suffice.

It was quite a simple technique really- Or from what she had heard it had been. It was simply a technique that asked the user to utilize their manipulation of suiton, something which she was quite familiar to by now, in order to make a thick mist to blanket the area. But then again, she hadn’t trained many water techniques in a while so with no doubt she would be perhaps if but a little rusty when it would come to starting but- She could do it, obviously. What did people take he for? A weakling? No- She’d learn the most dangerous Suiton technique out there, and she’d show them. With a gleam of eerie determination within her eyes, she’d then begin to form the seals needed for the technique.

As her fingers would entwine slowly but carefully, every sign that she would create would form as a building block towards the creation of the technique. Although weaving seals came like second nature to her by now, she was nonetheless careful- She could easily slip it up if she wasn’t careful- So, with her eyes gently guiding over her hands as she would form them, the simple chain would be formed, as she would then begin to concentrate on utilizing her ability to manipulate the water itself in the air in order to create the mist that the technique was so well-known for. She was looking to create such a high density that no-one would be able to see out, or in to the mist.

So- The white wearing woman would then stand in her place, the place falling silent. Of course, she was one to intimidate many with her slightly daunting appearance- Well- She was beautiful, but, the poison-filled look upon her face could probably make a baby cry, but exactly that is what she hoped to do- To grown people of course, not children. Blanche would never do that- But, hopefully, if this technique was to be done correctly, she’d soon find herself in a thick blanket of mist, which, perhaps could pose as a problem due to the fact that she might not be able to find her way out but, she was sure that she would be fine- From looking around for a moment, she could see that there were no potential hazards that she could fall trap to- No large rocks she could trip over, and most importantly, no cliff edge she could unsuspectingly fall over- She was ready to perform the technique, and was simply awaiting for

the mist to form.

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Kirigakure no Jutsu (Hidden Mist Technique)
Rank: D
Type: Supplementary / Suiton Ninjutsu
Range: 0 -10 meters
Special: Fills a large, 10 meter area with mist as long as the user keep the technique flowing. Each time retrained, area of mist expands by 10 more meters. Mist blocks out all doujutsu requiring clear visibility.
Description: Though very basic, the Hidden Mist Technique allows for the stealthier side of combat to rule. After forming a few simple handseals, the user causes the area surrounding their target to be covered in fog. The low visibility allows the ninja to silently and secretly assassinate their target, as they can move unseen, and if careful, unheard.
Domain: Suiton.

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But could she do it?
As far as what was happening at the moment, not much was really.. occurring as far as the technique went. With her blue eyes opening and gazing around, it would be apparent that she could still see things very clearly- She shouldn’t have that- no- She had done everything right, correct? Yes. She couldn’t have messed up anything, the handseals she had performed had been the ones that she carefully followed after reading about it moments before. With an annoyed look upon her face from not being able to use the technique correctly, she would simply keep attempting to form it, repeating the steps made after she had formed the handseals- She must have messed something small up, perhaps? Was she not controlling her chak- No. She was amazing, that couldn’t be it either.

She soon came to the conclusion that she simply needed to work on her water techniques. Shaking her head she would attempt to begin the process again, her hands parting from the union that she had created between them. Now, with her nimble fingers once more forming the zodiac seals that the technique required, she would place her utmost concentration on the technique itself, as she would now attempt to form the mist around her again as it required. It wasn’t exactly a very easy thing to do seeing as she hadn’t used the technique before in her life, and neither had she seen someone use it, so it was pretty much just she transferring what she had read about the technique and how to utilize it in to reality. There was no real indication that the technique would actually work but, what happened next would bring an unseen smile to Blanche’s porcelain face.

With her eyes fully open as she performed the technique, they would soon notice that the air was becoming slightly.. cloudy, if that was the way to describe it. The effect came on quite slow, but, soon she could see things in the distance slowly fade away from her vision as the mist around her would grow thicker with every moment that she would keep the technique up. She, being from Kusa, a land with a few rivers running through it, knew well about the mist that seemed to follow along the river- Many mornings she could remember waking up and seeing her village coated a little bit in white mist, and as a child, she had, to be fair, been concerned as to whether if people who walked in to said mist would ever come out- But those were childhood fears, and they had been set away years ago- Kusagakure these days, no doubt ,was blanketed in a thick layer of dust and wreckage.

Continuing her utilization of the technique, she would attempt to further blanket the area in an even thicker mist- At the moment she could just about see around her quite plainly if she concentrated hard enough, but the air was obviously tainted with some degree of mist- But it wasn’t enough. If she was going to learn the technique well, she might as well try and use it to its full extent, and cover the majority of the area she was in with mist. It’s that effect that she was looking to do and with her hands still clasped together in a handseal, she would keep up the technique, attempting to perfect her control over the mist that now surrounded the area, hanging around strangely as if someone had just left it there. She was quite glad with the results so far but- She could always do better.

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Kirigakure no Jutsu (Hidden Mist Technique)
Rank: D
Type: Supplementary / Suiton Ninjutsu
Range: 0 -10 meters
Special: Fills a large, 10 meter area with mist as long as the user keep the technique flowing. Each time retrained, area of mist expands by 10 more meters. Mist blocks out all doujutsu requiring clear visibility.
Description: Though very basic, the Hidden Mist Technique allows for the stealthier side of combat to rule. After forming a few simple handseals, the user causes the area surrounding their target to be covered in fog. The low visibility allows the ninja to silently and secretly assassinate their target, as they can move unseen, and if careful, unheard.
Domain: Suiton.

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It seemed to be working, so Blanche was pretty happy, although her expression suggested otherwise.

With her arms still held in front of her in the same seal that she had been using for the past few moments, she would keep up her attempt to learn the technique, watching as the area all around her continued to almost blank out from existence itself, being replaced by what would appear to be an endless white haze. Others may have seen it as something quite creepy, the idea of there perhaps being an endless fog masking the earth itself, but Blanche wasn’t scared at all by the white mass that now surrounded her, blotching out any other figures that may have been around her- Trees, plants, they were all gone, overshadowed by the technique that she had just used. However- although the mist grew thicker and her vision faded somewhat, her confidence just grew wildly.

The mist around her blossomed somewhat- She was quite surprised to say the very truth regarding how fast the mist itself grew in density- Only moments ago had the air been as clear as day, now however it had been tainted with the technique she was training, she being unable to see the things around her, and with no doubt the people on the outside not being able to see in on the blonde woman who had utilized the technique, which was exactly what she wanted to do. For sure if she was in a situation where she needed to partially blind the enemy in order for her to attack, this would be a good way to do it unless they had ways that they could see past the mist in order to fight back- Although, she’d need to look at the weaknesses the technique had, and work on them.

So, this was the technique, was it? With her arms finally folding down from the position they were in, breaking contact with the handseals, she’d look about and then at herself- She could somewhat clearly see her own body through the mist around her, but then again everything else was currently covered by the jutsu she had just used. It was somewhat hard to tell how far exactly the technique had stretched around, but, from what she could remember it was around 8 Meters squared- Or more, 10 meters perhaps? She was unusure. Although, unsure she was, she simply couldn’t help but think of all the uses this technique could be used for- She would need to find a way however, to allow her to see past the thick mist- A pair of thermal goggles perhaps? Maybe.
She’d need to look in to it for the future.

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Kirigakure no Jutsu (Hidden Mist Technique)
Rank: D
Type: Supplementary / Suiton Ninjutsu
Range: 0 -10 meters
Special: Fills a large, 10 meter area with mist as long as the user keep the technique flowing. Each time retrained, area of mist expands by 10 more meters. Mist blocks out all doujutsu requiring clear visibility.
Description: Though very basic, the Hidden Mist Technique allows for the stealthier side of combat to rule. After forming a few simple handseals, the user causes the area surrounding their target to be covered in fog. The low visibility allows the ninja to silently and secretly assassinate their target, as they can move unseen, and if careful, unheard.
Domain: Suiton.

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+ 37 exp.

- 25 (D rank tech)
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total = 12 exp.

You don't have to train the actual technique, you get exp just from rping. But add the tech, learned.

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It was but minutes after that she figured that the technique had been done to it's full potential- If the mist grew any thicker it could probably eat someone whole, and Blanche highly doubted that such a low level technique could even do such a thing. So, having finished with the technique she was currently learning the blonde kunoichi would then, remembering exactly where she was on the training field that she had stumbled upon, would begin to make her way through the less than hazardous field of mist that she had created a few minutes ago- but, as she walked away from the centre where she had been located, she would find the mist soon clearing up a bit, as her vision soon got to grasp with things like trees, which had once been very vividly placed around her.

All in all- the woman was scary in her own way, but at the same time, graceful. Her heeled feet would walk across the earth with confident steps, almost like a supermodel- she would soon emerge like an angel out of the mist that covered the area, she flicking her head to the side dramatically, her hair following suit, before bouncing back in to place- Not that it really was in one place- It was wild, in curls all over the place yet, as with many things regarding Blanche- She pulled it off well. She could look angry, and people would still label her as beautiful. It was a strange thing, really, but she wouldn’t change it for the world. She was far too confident to want to change anything about herself.

..Perhaps there were a few things.

But otherwise, there was nothing.
Her attitude matched her confidence, and her confidence matched many other a thing. There was no easy way to stop her from doing what she wanted to do, but at the moment, she lay short of ideas- Surely there was something else to do when she would be waiting for the mist itself to clear so that she could begin training something else that needed a clear view of where you were to train it? It would probably pass in about half an hour or so, or, that’s what she hoped would happen, as she was pretty intent on training. Sure enough she could go train somewhere else, but she wasn’t feeling that somewhere else at the moment. Of course there was one place that she would have liked to be- Kusagakure, her home. But that wasn’t going to happen any time soon.

It annoyed her somewhat (Along with everything else) that she was so close to the border of Hi no Kuni and Kusa no Kuni, but she was unable to return- Was it fear that stopped her from going back? Maybe. She was unsure. A cold woman at heart, she couldn’t let down the layers which she had built around herself to make her who she was today, she couldn’t do it for anyone. But, no- it wasn’t fear. Communications had been lost during the war- Was there even a village left? Was her family alright? What about everyone else? She thought about these things constantly during both day and night, but, usually she’d guide her mind to think about other matters.

”……..”

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As she furthered away from the cloud of mist that had descended nearby, she would soon be out of the mist bank, and would then find herself standing near a few trees in the area, her hands gently swiping along the bark for a moment, before drawing her hand back and looking about the place- It was different. She missed the humidity of Kusagakure- here it was fairly dry, perhaps the most humid bit being by the rivers that no doubt moved freely through the country like snakes. There wasn’t that much to do here- She had heard of a village being present within the land of fire, but that had no importance to her at the time being- Sure enough other villages were important, even more so after the war but, she had no intention to go out and find it.

Looking back at the creation that she had birthed through handseals and chakra alone, she couldn’t help but feel proud of herself as she did after learning every new technique that she got her hands on. It would probably prove as quite a vital asset to her later on in life, but then again she was aiming to learn a lot of techniques in the meantime to do with water, but at the moment her primary concern would be her medical skills- What kind of medic would she be without learning new things all the time? It was important for a medic to adapt with the times- If there was a new poison made, it would be a duty of theirs to seek a certain level of a technique that would help cure it from a patient- And, although she did see herself as a bloody good medic, there was much room for improvement.

But, it was harder now. Back home in Kusa there was the hospital- There were other Medical shinobi that could help teach her new things, there was her family, who also had links to the medical world within the village. Now it was just her on her own as far as medical shinobi were concerned- Or, so she figured. She hadn’t seen many of the ones that she had once known in years now- She wasn’t even sure if they were alive or not, but it was better not to ponder such things, and instead find another way to train things- Such as perhaps living as a travelling medic, that would be nice but at the same time she’d have to initiate conversation with a lot of randomers, something which she wasn’t fond of- Sure enough she would speak if she was spoken to but, still. It would be nice, but it probably would come with a good few drawbacks.

For example, who was she to know exactly who she would be healing? Perhaps it was a mass murderer of Kusa’s citizens! Such things swayed her away from healing but, she figured that with each healing session she would do, it would profit her well. But then again, after the war she had grown slightly untrustworthy of people, after what had happened within her village. Anyone could be out there wanting to simply mindlessly kill- Aspects of people which she loathed. Although she was a woman who could probably kill someone with looks alone, she wasn’t a killer- Or, at the best of times she wasn’t a killer- If there was no other way she would do it, but, she wasn’t fond of ending lives.

But that didn’t mean she was a pacifist.
No no no.
She could throw one helluva punch at a whiny bitch when she wanted to.

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But none of that was of any good matter any more;
She was leaving this country- Of course she was to return, but when she could be bothered of course. At the moment she had a yearning to go elsewhere, even though she had past planned to train some techniques- Her genius would be treated better elsewhere.

EXIT!

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