The Teachers

[Deacan]

Teach Me, Teach Me!
Rank: C
Ninja needed: 1-3
Mission info: The village has re-established itself and the Academy Students are giving their teachers a very hard time. Wow them with stories of war and death and teach them a jutsu or two. The Kage would like this to be a weekly event to keep the moral up.
Special Info: Can be taken indefinitely

Deacan woke up and yawned, the mist obscuring the sunlight, but dispersing it as well, making the entire village light up in the morning. It was a beautiful thing to see a morning in Kirigakure. Deacan stood up and grabbed a small meal from his counter. It wasn't much, but it was high in nutrients and medium in calories, making it good for a ninja that was always walking around. Decan looked through his shelf before realizing his food had ran out. It wasn't uncommon since he didn't really stock up on food. It was mostly dried things so that, even if he wasn't home for awhile, he wouldn't need to worry about it spoiling.

Deacan sighed and put on his jumpsuit and cloak. He put on both of his senbon launcher and loaded them, slowly. He put each needle in one at a time and filled up both of the launchers. He exited his house and closed the door. He had little to steal and he trusted most people in Kirigakure, so he found no reason to lock his doors or even make sure they were shut. He walked out onto the street, his hair hanging down his back and showing his lineage, blatantly. His hair blew in the wind a bit as he moved through the village. He wasn't in much of a rush and was checking to see if people were doing well. It was a habit of his, and he had a few others as well.

While walking through the village, he entered a small house on the edge of the water. Inside was an old man that Deacan visited rather often. He had a respect for his elders that he felt was slowly being lost in his generation, but that wouldn't change him. He breathed in as a green light enveloped his hands. He looked at the old man as he slowly set his hands on him. It wouldn't be for long, but he could help the man breathe better and with less stress for as long as he held his hands there, which was usually about 8 seconds. It also had the added effect of cleansing the man's lungs. This gave Deacan a good bit of intelligence about his own technique. He watched the old man's chest heave up and down, but get much gentler as the man was able to take deeper and longer breaths. It was interesting to see how the jutsu affected the old man. The cleansing effect was also quite useful, but the ease of breathing and more rapid breathing was what Deacan truly thought was useful. It gave a person with bad lungs the ability to breathe twice as good, and that was almost constant.

"That should feel better, Elder."
Deacan didn't even know the man's name after coming here day after day. To Deacan, it was another way to test on a live subject, and better yet, one that was in bad condition. Fixing a normal, healthy ninja is easy, but regulating your chakra so you don't harm a frail and non-trained old man was much more precise. It took awhile of practicing on others before he was able to control his chakra to the level he felt was right. Since then, he came day after day to keep his skills up, even if it was just this one jutsu.

"Thank... You." The old man smiled at Deacan as Deacan stood up and began to walk away. It was interesting to Deacan that people thanked him for using them as test subjects, though it did make it easier to practice. Deacan started off towards the tower. Before entering, he removed his senbon launchers and affixed his radio. He gave the launchers to some nearby guards. He walked into the mission room and grabbed the scroll, not so much as looking at the people who gave the mission to him. He opened the scroll and read it.

"I will be at the entrance. Send my partner there." Deacan knew that they weren't at fault for sending so many ninja to their death or sending them forwards as tools of death, but he still didn't like the idea. He knew where he was going to go afterwards, and now he just needed to wait for his partner.

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8 Uses of a Low cost jutsu : Sansokyoukyuu (Oxygen Supply)

[Kastiel]

Reiko's eyes fluttered open to the sound of a loud bark in her ear. The girl sighed and looked up to see her ninkien, Arashi, laying on the bed beside her. Reiko patted Arashi's head and gave her a hug.

"Morning, Arashi. Glad to see your happy today." A low purr rumbled from the dogs throat and she wagged her tail happily. Reiko laughed and rolled out of bed, landing on the ground with a soft thud. Everything was silent for a moment, before she jumped up and walked to the window with Arashi trailing behind. Outside, a stream of sunlight lit up the village. The usual mist was not overly thick and the light from the sun weaved its way through the mist, making it shimmer. It was beautiful.


"Lovely morning. Shall we go see what the mission is for today?" Reiko asked, turning her head to face Arashi. The wolf had her paws up on the window pane, and was looking out at the village. There was a tail wag in response, which usually meant yes. The Inuzuka shut the curtains and patted over to her dresser. She pulled out her usual kunoichi outfit- Black leggings, fishnets, blue skirt, gloves and a black vest. Reiko quickly slipped them on and ran a brush through her hair, grabbing a hairtye from the dresser and twisting her black locks into a bun.

The duo walked to the kitchen in silence, both of them still sleepy. Reiko filled Arashi's food bowl and opened the fridge to search for her own breakfast. There wasn't a whole lot in there, a few bags of fruit and some riceballs. The girl sighed and pulled out a rice ball, taking a bite and glancing at the clock. It was almost time to go. She finished the food and quickly wiped her hands on a cloth.

"Time to go, Arashi!" Reiko called and looked around for her weapons. She looked in their usual spot, in her room and even in the bathroom but couldn't find them. She looked at the clock again and saw they where already three minutes late. Reiko rushed to the door, slipped on her sandals and ran out the door, quickly shutting and locking it behind her. The team ran to the missions office, occasionally bumping into a few people and muttering a quick "sorry."

When they got there, Reiko went straight into the mission room. Her scroll was missing.

"Where is my mission?" she asked a few nearby guards, who had a bored expression on their face. Both of them exchanged a glance before one cleared his throat.

"Are you Reiko? Well if ya are, go to the entrance. Your partners waitin' for ya there" the man waved me away with a flip of his hand and his partner slapped him upside the head before they both burst out laughing.

Idiots Reiko thought, calling Arashi and heading toward the entrance. Time for her mission.

[Deacan]

Deacan sighed as he waited. It wasn't a difficult mission, but they had to get to the school before the it closed. He sighed as he breathed in and out, feeling the flow of his chakra through his body. It wasn't long after he started to do this that he saw a wolf-girl run into the mission area. He wasn't overly worried as he grabbed the senbon launchers from the guards outside and equipped them. It wasn't a mission where any danger would be had, but it was a mission none the less and he would be prepared, even if the most unlikely things happened. He looked around before he heard the footsteps coming outside. He turned and saw the girl.

"So.. You are my partner? Take a look at the mission." He handed her the scroll and started walking. He wasn't a very social person, but he didn't mind groups, so long as they worked to his advantage. He looked at her.
"No family techniques, got it? We need to show them something they can all learn and something only a few would make the rest feel bad. What techniques do you know?"

He walked infront of her a bit as his shoes clapped against the ground. He was already towards the target zone before she had even read the scroll. Unlike the other member of his group, his clan wasn't as obvious, though one look at his hair would give someone a very good idea. A black raven outlined with white made up the pattern in his hair, though only when it was flat.

[Kastiel]

Reiko ran up to the entrance and saw a boy waiting there. This must be my partner for the mission she thought, walking over to him. He had an impatient look on his face, one that looked like he had been waiting here a while. She frowned.

"So.. You are my partner? Take a look at the mission." he asked and handed her the scroll containing the mission.
"No family techniques, got it? We need to show them something they can all learn and something only a few would make the rest feel bad. What techniques do you know?" she glared at him for the attitude and opened the scroll, reading the mission. It was fairly simple, help out some academy students and teach them a new trick or two. As long as the students listened, it would be a simple task. Reiko handed the scroll back to him and thought for a moment about what jutsu would be test to teach the students.

"Medical Ninjutsu," she said slowly, tapping her foot on the ground. "I specialize in Medical Ninjutsu. I could teach the female students that, since they are better at chakra control." Reiko smirked and looked at Arashi, who was glaring at her partner. She gave the wolf the "hes on our side" look and continued.
"What could you teach them? " she stopped tapping her foot and looked up at the boy.

[Deacan]

He let out a little laugh as he heard her say her specialty. She was a medical as well. This village had a sense of humor at least, sending to people of the same narrow skill set towards a mission aimed at calming and teach kids. He smiled as he headed towards the school, being about 50 yards away. He looked at her as she made her comment about teaching the female students.

"A bit sexist are we? Guys can learn medical techniques as well. I did." He rolled his eyes a bit as he got near the school and saw a tree. I can teach them about the Dead Hands technique, and a few other miscellanious techniques." The dead hands technique was one he was very well aquainted with, and he knew how to use it on people just as well as on things such as trees. It was a truly diverse technique, capable of being used on anything with cells. He already had a training regiment ready.

He stood buy the tree and started to remove the bark from part of it before walking over to the other member of the team. "You know the mission, so let's get started."
He walked over to the academy and entered, talking with the teacher. It was a newer teacher, one he hadn't had before, but he was still pretty good at handling people.

[Kastiel]

She glared at her partner, who laughed a little at her comment about guys learning medical techniques. With a grimace, Reiko huffed and began tapping her foot again like she did when she was irritated.

"A bit sexist are we? Guys can learn medical techniques as well. I did." he said suddenly, snapping her out of her thoughts. Reiko coughed and put her hand over her mouth to stop from giggling. She was in no way sexist, but she would never peg him for the medical ninjutsu type. When the girl thought of a medic, the first thing she would think about was a girl. It wasn't that guys didn't have the ability to learn to techniques, it was just unusual to see them actually using it in Reikos mind.

She turned when she heard her partner say something else that was unintelligible and started walking away. Quickly, she waved Arashi forward and ran after him. Being late for the mission would not be a good idea, even though they probably already were. The group arrived at the academy, Arashi stopping at the door for a moment to wonder if she was allowed inside the building.

"It's alright. Come in" Reiko smiled and opened the door for the wolf. Both of them stepped inside, and with this, their mission would officially begin.

[Deacan]

He looked at the teacher and gave a courteous smile. As with all of his elders, he tried to hold her in respect, but the students in the room didn't help his concentration much. They were loud and energetic, causing a ruckus throughout the room as Deacan and his partner, whose name he had yet to even bother learning, continued to converse with the teacher. Deacan stood in the front of the room. Deacan stood straight up as he started to lecture.

"In battle, with the blazes of Katon and the sheer forces of Fuuton blistering your allies, you must know what to do. Me and my partner are both medical nin and, in our hands, hold the power to give strength to those who we can, but we also have other powers. Although not as glamorous as The Seven Swordsmen, many battles have been one with tactics and medical techniques. There are even legends of some medics who can make the dead come back to life. Though we are meant to be support and healers, we have our own ways of fighting. A wound from a medical ninja can last quite a while and we can also make other's wounds last for a much shorter time."

He revealed his arms. They were covered in small patches of lighter skin where the skin was recently flaked off. The small patches covered his arm in small lines. The rest of his arm was covered in cuts from, most likely, a senbon as the cuts were small. It was obvious how he practiced his medical jutsu to a trained medic-nin and it wasn't one that agreed with most medics. He put down his sleeves and looked at his partner.

"Anything to add?

[Kastiel]

Reiko stopped conversing with the academy teacher to listen to her partner, who was giving a detailed explanation on medical ninjutsu. He stopped for a moment and pulled up his sleeve, revealing various scratches and scars. The girl sighed and waited for him to finish.
"Anything to add? he asked suddenly, gesturing to her. Reiko coughed and walked to stand up at the front of the room, waving quickly to make sure the students were still paying attention.

"What my partner," Reiko paused for a second, realizing she hadn't learned his name yet. She cleared her throat and continued "What he was saying is true. It is possible to bring back the live of another, but doing so leaves great costs on ones own body. Medical Ninjutsu is worth it to learn, even it is only one or two techniques. It is exhausting on the castors body but saving a life is worth the risk."

She paused waited for her partner to add to this, but when he didn't she continued on.

"Today, I think it would be substantial to teach you one of the simple techniques. It's called "Mystical Hand Technique" and is one of the basis of medical ninjutsu." Reiko focused her chakra to her hands and they started to glow a faint green. She looked around the classroom and saw that most of the students looked amazed by the jutsu. She smiled and released the jutsu, putting her hands on her hip. Slowly, a girl with long blonde hair raised her hand. Reiko nodded and the girl continued.

"What exactly does it do?" she asked shyly. Reiko laughed and began to explain.

"It heals and counters damage. You can upgrade the jutsu, making it able to heal more difficult wounds. It used a special kind of chakra, called 'Shousen' . 'Shousen Jutsu is one of the most fundamental yet vital Medical Ninjutsu techniques utilized by medical ninja. This technique allows the ninja to heal wounds by focusing their own chakra to their hands, creating a special chakra designed to speed up the body's natural healing process exponentially.' Ah yes, I quoted that right of the textbook' Reiko shrugged and turned to her partner, allowing him to talk about his abilities.

[Deacan]

He looked up as she finished and nodded with a smile on his face. It wasn't a happy smile but a "Good Job" smile. He looked at the students. Most of them knew some basic ninjutsu, genjutsu, or taijutsu. Medical jutsu was a bit advanced, but it's what they had to work with.

"Well, I am a medic, like you. The first step to any medic-nin's assortment of jutsu is the one you are showing. Without the control necessary for that technique, the others are rather hard to reach." He put his hands together, almost as if praying, and breathed in as he felt the chakra flowing in his body. He let it flow into his hands as they were surrounded by a black aura.
"This is one of my preferred techniques. This technique is the opposite of hers. Whereas her technique heals wounds, this one attacks on a cellular level, killing the cells. Used correctly, you can remove parasites or infections. Used in another way, it can injure a person. Learning this one without a firm grasp on hers could lead to hurting an ally more than whatever you are removing. But, for starters, we can both try to teach this technique, then we can split off into groups based on the other techniques you want to learn."

He dropped his hands and the aura went away as he breathed out.
He looked around the classroom a bit and smiled, but then looked at his partner, before walking over to her. He leaned close so that the students couldn't hear.
"So... what are we going to teach them on? If they don't have a living, bleeding target, then they won't be able to tell if they are understanding it. And I don't think their families would appreciate us cutting them to teach them healing. I think that the most logical thing for them to try to heal is us. We are well attuned to chakra and can read the flow better than they can. That means we can feel it and see whether they need to lighten up or put more energy into it.

Deacan personally didn't mind being scratched a bit for practice. In fact, he did it to himself quite often, as it helped him to understand the tecniques, and the pain the healed goes through.

[Kastiel]

She sat down on a nearby chair, leaning back and watching her partner talk about his technique. Reiko felt a slight nudge in her side and saw Arashi, who was getting impatient from sitting for too long. The girl patted the wolf quickly on the head and stood up, realizing it probably looked very informal to be sitting down on the mission. Just then, her partner walked over to her and whispered in her ear.

What he said about one of them needing to injure themselves was a valid point. Without a wound, there would be nothing to heal. There was no way Reiko would cut an academy student and since she didn't have any weapons on her, that left the girl with one option. Reiko nodded and looked over to her companion.

"Arashi, bite my arm please." she said quietly to the wolf who walked over to Reiko and bit into her forearm, leaving a bite mark. Slowly, blood started to trickle onto the floor. The academy teacher glared and mumbled something about 'cleaning the floors later'


"Pay attention," Reiko instructed the class "This is how you heal a wound. First, you need to focus the correct chakra to your hand and place it over the wounded area." She did just that, her hand now glowing a faint green. The bleeding stopped and the puncture marks began to close. When she was finished all that was left was a few barley visible marks where Arashi's teeth had sunken into.

"If the wound is not that bad, the marks will fade quickly." Reiko explained. She slid her foot over the blood on the floor, smearing it into the ground and smirking at the academy teacher.
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Shousen no Jutsu (Mystical Hand Technique) 5 seconds.

[Deacan]

Deacan watched as she had her pet bite her and healed the wound. It was basic and she could have done a much cleaner job if she would have used the clean and pure technique, though Deacan had no idea if she even knew that move or not. A bit from an animal could leave infection, but he assumed she knew what she was doing and if her partner had any diseases.

"Well, the time of lecturing is over, so you guys need to start learning at some point." He lifted his sleeve and pulled out a senbon, cutting a zig-zag pattern acrossed his arm as he sat down. One of the students came up to him. It was a boy and his chakra control wasn't the greatest.

"Breathe in and stay calm. Feel the chakra in your body, focus. Inside your own body, a network of chakra runs right beside your blood. Ease up on your chakra and feel it flow through your hands. Then feel it leave you and cover the wound."

Deacan's voice was rather calm, despite the zig-zagging mark on his arm healing rather slowly. Eventually, it started to close before finally covering where the wound was. It was a rough heal, but a heal none the less. The wound was slightly scarred, but it matched the others up and down Deacan's arms.

"Once you get this concept, the rest of medic jutsu are very similar, so remember that feeling."

[Kastiel]

Reiko looked around for a group that might be interested in learning medic ninjutsu past the basics. She chose a group of one boy and two girls that were holding there hands and waiting for it to glow green. She rolled her eyes and walked over to them, immediately being attacked with questions.

"How did you do that! " The girls asked at the same time. The boy, who just noticed Reikos presence, jumped up and waved his hand in her face.

"Its not working! Show us how to do it!" he commanded, still waving his hand in her face. Reiko sighed and turned to Arashi, commanding her to bite her arm again. The group looked at the wound in shock, all of them flailing there arms.

"Calm down. Here, let me teach you the basics..." Reiko said impatiently. The group nodded and listened. She taught them how to focus chakra to their hands and eventually they grasped the idea. The boy, to Reikos surprise, was better at chakra control then the girls. She then instructed them to try and heal her bite wound. First, the girls tried. They didn't really do much except stop the bleeding and close one of the smaller tooth marks.

"Good try," Reiko said, patting them on the head. "Practice makes perfect. You did very well for your first try."

Second, the boy tried. He did very well for a beginner, managing to close all of the tooth marks. All that was left was a few marks that would heal with time. Reiko smiled and patted him on the head.

"You did a very good job. I think you should consider going into medical ninjutsu training and maybe even get a job at the hospital."

[Deacan]

Deacan whispered to the other students around him. Most of them got a slight grasp on the first technique of medical jutsu, the hands of healing. He walked outside and the students who were watching him followed. They were quietly whispering something about a slightly higher level technique. Deacan made his way outside, not even talking to his partner about it. He had his own specialties and his own way of doing things. He walked to the tree he had cut earlier and placed the students around it.

"Since we don't always have a large amount of wounded, medical nin need to keep their skills strong by practicing on anything around them. This tree will do for now, until you can learn to control your chakra. Then you can try on living animals. I would advise you to practice on smaller animals until you get enough practice in. But, since there is a shortage of damaged beings around here, I am going to show you a way to damage cells. Remember the feeling from earlier, how the chakra flowed through your hands and you thought of healing? This time, try the opposite."

He made the appropriate stance, his hands together, as if praying. He then channeled the dark purple chakra over his hands and put it onto the tree, slowly destroying some of the cells of the tree. He then pulled his hands away as he saw his students start to form the chakra. It was a more destructive and wild chakra than healing, and required much less precision. Most of the students caught on quickly and started to use it on the tree, before stopping to rest.

"You can use this on animals and people to cause wounds, and then heal the wounds for practice. Don't try it on yourselves though, in case you can't heal the damage. You don't want to die. And don't tell your teachers about this training method either. It tends to make some people mad. Remember not to get caught though."

The students just nodded as he smiled. Some of them had a bit of hesitation in their eyes, but some seemed completely enthralled. They wanted to practice more now, knowing that there were almost limitless targets. This would cause some of them to grow to be self-righteous and some of them to grow to become medical ninjas that were detached from healing people. They would become like Deacan, more concerned with practicing the techniques than anything else.

[Kastiel]

Reiko continued to teach the trio. The boy seemed more interested in all the technical stuff and the girls wanted to know all the simple jutsus so they could practice them at home. She talked for a long time, explaining in detail pretty much everything she knew about the healing arts.

First, Reiko talked about the technicalities, which made the boy student happy. She explained how cells are needed, some jutsus require blood and the differences between organ tissue and muscle tissue. Not every medical jutsu required this knowledge but nonetheless it was good to know. She told how the cell is a basic and structural unit required in all living things, unicellular or multicultural. Reiko explained how plant and animals cells were different but practicing healing on a tree would be a good idea for beginners.

Second, she talked about how medical jutsu could also be used to injuring somebody. If you used a certain jutsu for too long or a cell damaging jutsu it could cause permanent damage. Just like water, too much can damage you as much as too little can.

"Never, ever injure yourself to practice until you are sure you can heal it. Also, it is very important to practice around a trusted adult for safety." Reiko turned and waved her hand for the students to follow her. She led them outside, where her partner was teaching his group and doing something to a tree.

she sighed and rolled her eyes. Once her partner was done, he looked at her and she waved her hand to signal that the mission was just about finished.

[mission end for Reiko]

[Deacan]

Deacan looked at all the students and nodded. He explained a bit more about the techniques and the feeling, going so far as to talk about when each technique should be used and how much practice one should get with each technique, before it became combat ready. The students were rather absorbed into the tree. It gave them something to practice on and let them get a feel for the techniques. Some of the student's hands turned back to the faint blue aura around their hands, while others kept working on the dead hand's technique. One of the students jumped backwards a bit after he made a small yelp. Deacan looked at the boy's hands.

"When using any medical technique..." Deacan put his hands together in a form similar to a prayer again. It wasn't necessary for everyone, but it was for him. A light blue aura surrounded his hand as he touched the child's. The child had lost control of the Dead Hands Technique a little and hurt some of his own cells, but stopped before it got too bad. Deacan started healing his hand. "It is important to maintain control over your chakra. If you use too much, it will radiate needlessly and my even hit your hands a little. You have to keep a thin veil of space between your flesh and your chakra on the surface to prevent that. Not only will it decrease the wasted chakra, but it will increase the speed at which you can heal."

The child jumped back over, completely unfettered by the fear of hurting himself again. He laughed a bit in his mind as the child mimicked his position of prayer-channeling his chakra. The children began to get exhausted as Deacan waved to his partner.

"We have taught them enough for one day. We can come back another day to teach them more, provided the Mizukage deems our performance acceptable."

Deacan walked back to the tower to turn the mission in and to see how the mission went, according to the Mizukage. This would be his first mission in a long time, though he had heard from others that the Mizukage didn't even show most of the time to say whether a mission was good or not, using a proxy a large portion of the time.

[Mission End for Deacan]