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She lost part of her memory, her sanity but she didn't lose her nautural instincts. She'd always been taught to be on her guard. Even the most minuit of things could turn lethal if she was careless. She watched the person's every move; big or small. She had no clue what the Hyuuga kekkei touta was, no information on the Byakugan and the renowned Eight Trigams jutsu sequence. In many regards she was not well-informed but she was definitely not oblivious to what her eyes could see. It was only a matter of whether she registered in her brain the right messages that could then produce the right consequential actions that reflected the messages.

She was going insane but definitely not losing her senses. Her golden eyes took in the series of images in front of her, namely the actions produced by the persona. It's movements were quick she supposed but not too quick. Normal human standards, she would say. His speed probably matched hers if she so desired to make any sort of comparison. Her pupils never leaving the he/she, she was beginning to feel that she could probably win this. Though she had yet to see just what this being could do, she was determined to show him she meant business--subtly of course.

She was expecting the shuriken to be blocked or dodged and so she didn't wait for the results. There had been one jutsu she had in mind which would help her. And she had this insane obsession with snow. Almost all her jutsus were focused on the Yukina Clan specialty: snow and ice. She smirked as he dodged rather clumsily the shuriken attack. Because her chakra was active, coarsing through her body since she decided to throw her shuriken at his body. It was while he dodged that she formed the handseals to the familiar jutsu known as Yukigakure no jutsu. It was not an attacking jutsu but it was one of her favorites.

Her chakra released to the air and in a matter of seconds she was able to see the effects of her own jutsu. The persona would find him/herself caught in a snowy haze. The temperature was slowy dropping as the jutsu became more defined. She was so used to her own clan jutsus and becoming immersed in cold temperatures that it felt rather cozy now. Though she couldn't say he/she would share these sentiments as the haze would probably begin to freeze his/her muscles little by little. Seeing the effects of her jutsu in full motion, she would take a few more steps back, increasing their distance now to fifteen meters.

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Yukigakure no Jutsu (Hidden Snow Jutsu)
Rank: D
Type: Defensive/ Clan Kekkei Touta / Hyouton Ninjutsu
Range: Depends on Yuki No Kami Rank
Special: While in the mist, the enemy's mobility and taijutsu may be affected. A normal punch will lose some of its force and their ability to summon their chakra may be slowed. As the rank increases, both of these effects increase in effectiveness. All caught in the mist, including allies, fall prey to its effects.
Description: The Yukina causes the area surrounding their target to be covered in a thick snowy haze. Used to their own jutsu, the ninja are much more effective inside it's effects than their opponents. The haze is extremely cold, and exerts a freezing pressure upon foes that reduce the effectiveness of their muscle and chakra output. Those who have fought a Yukina within the mist and lived to tell about it have said it was like 'wrestling a bear after not sleeping for a week.' 
Domain: Yukina, Yuki no Kami Rank D

 

flashback || daybreak

She would not be able to see her creation even if she wanted to. Right when the chakra was beginning to fuse with the water particles to take some sort of shape, she found her body beginning to physically feel the consequence of loss of chakra. It wasn't anything a small nap wouldn't cure but it hit her strong and sudden too. The impact was similar to if someone was suddenly hit by a brick over the head. There was no real debate as to what would happen next. She needed to take a rest, anything that would replenish the strength taken away by her training game. Almost as soon as she felt her body give way, she closed her eyes entering the familiar world of darkness known as sleep. 

She was once again caught up in a dream. This dream was just like the other dream she had when she passed out the last time. She was a little older in this dream and she was walking along a snow path with Tao other people. Again she couldn't catch their faces. They were both wearing headbands, one had theirs around their neck and the other had it strapped to the knee. She saw clearly the symbol on the headband. It was the same one she had. In the dream she was leaving some place, passing through a gate with the two mysterious people following behind her.

But that was all she got. The dreams were shattered fragments that she hoped would piece together in place. The more different dreams she had the more pieces she got of the mysterious puzzle regarding her identity. She wanted to grasp more but simply couldn't since her dream stopped there. This one at least told her that she was part of some village and had friends apparently. Not much else other than that. She would wake up with a start again, the sun gleaming down on her pale skin warming her body. It took her a couple to see where she was and then remember her training game. 

She slept too long this time. She looked up at the sun and saw that it was already mid-afternoon. Originally she had planned to only stay asleep a couple of hours so that she could probably start the second round of her training the water needle jutsu before mid-afternoon. It was daybreak when she first started to train so mid-afternoon was far too late for her to wake up. She looked around and stood up giving her body a little stretch.

She looked from left and right and saw that there was no one in sight. That was strange. Usually mid-afternoon was the time when people would take hikes around forests. Maybe Hi no Kuni people ran differently. But that was better for her since she was sure she needed more time to herself to keep on training. She was nowhere close to learning the jutsu and she wanted to have some kind of improvement after round two.

flashback || daybreak

The chakra was pushing against the chakra point in her right hand. It was getting irritating, to put it lightly. She formed the three string of handseals belonging to the Sensatsu Suishou jutsu and then pushed the energy into the water.  "Sensatsu Suishou!" Her voice was neither a whisper nor a holler. In a monotone she said the name of the jutsu. She looked at the stream of chakra that was escaping her chakra point. This was a fairly important step here. She was always trying to keep track of how much chakra she needed to use. A battle and a training were two very different areas of using chakra. In battles she needed to conserve her chakra to the finest amount because she only had one chance with each jutsu use. Also her chakra was very low meaning that in a normal kind of setting the use of a perfectly mastered Sensatsu Suishou would probably be the only jutsu she would be able to use and then she would have exhausted her body. In a training though the chakra still had to be calculated to the finest amount because she was literally using her chakra and dividing it based on how many attempts she makes on the jutsu.

In training she was always very careful of chakra release because she wanted to make sure that she released enough but not too much. There were times in her learning where she found that trying to learn a jutsu without any thought of chakra was rash and foolish. She has yet to develop control of chakra release. She had the chance of starting doing that with Yuki no Kami B rank. Being of the same rank she thought it automatically meant that she was supposed to release the same amount as she did that time. She was normally more organized than this. Once she was familiar with chakra and releasing it to form jutsus her guardian taught her a basic breakdown of how she should go about learning jutsus. She was taught that the best way to go about ninjutsu was to break it up in chunks to learn. Since she wasn't going to be expecting one shot perfection this was the safest way. But she forgot his teachings this particular day. 

Releasing chakra, she would pull back her chakra after the release of it after almost a full a minute. In that minute she had released a constant flow of chakra draining her body of almost one third of chakra. It was miscalculation and silly mistake. Her chakra was absorbed by the pond when she finally pulled back her hand. Chances were that she also realized how much more chakra she was using for a first try. This was a serious problem. Originally she had a plan that her body's chakra, which after a full night of rest, was enough for her to at least try the jutsu three times before she would be completely wiped out. Now that almost a third of it was drained she couldn't promise three tries. She watched the chakra take a dive into the water and fuse together. Oh shit! she cursed under breath. 

She punched the water with her fist in frustration. If using one third of chakra gave her at least something to work from, she wouldn't be so angry. But now realizing that it was all going to go to waste she was sure that her first try would give her nothing. The anger boiled inside and she couldn't just stand there and watch her failure before her eyes. What she did next was form the jutsu handseals again and then said the name of the jutsu again. Kicking the water closest to her she released the chakra from her hand again. This time she paid more attention to chakra release this time. Not calculated to perfection she just released it to the water particles that she kicked up.

It was all out of anger that this attempt was based on. Naturally the things done out of spite and anger normally didn't equate to success. That was exactly the result. She paid attention to chakra release but attention was not the only thing that governed chakra. This was one reason people usually had so much difficulty with chakra whenever learning any jutsu.

;; day three
flashback || daybreak

It was very boring out here in the forests of Hi no Kuni. She wasn't a shinobi from that area so venturing out of the forest during the day wasn't such a good idea. The chances of her running into a high ranked ninja was far too great. Since she still wanted to travel to the other four great shinobi villages to find the answers to unanswered questions, she couldn't have herself killed. So she devised a plan which involved her training during the day and then going out of the forest for a few hours just shy of sunset time and then come back to the forest either for more training or to relax for the night. Training always suited her when she was bored enough to not mind the endless trials of the same things for an extended period of time. Today felt like one of those days where training could be entertaining somehow. 

She made her way down to the familiar pond. She had slept a pretty decent amount with her back against a tree trunk. After observing the forestland for a couple of days she found that she could sleep with relative safety here at night. Not many shinobi walked in to disturb her and the birds proved to be more companions than enemies. She woke up before the sun even came up and after thinking for a few moments already decided that it was going to be training day. She passed the tightly grown trees that gave her the path down to the pond. The pond was the only water source that she knew of in the forestland. She hadn't walked the whole forest since the land was probably a little too big for her two feet to travel. Her stay in the country wasn't going to be long so forest will always look like forests no matter the size.

She stood by the banks and looked out to the water. She liked the calm feeling water gave her. But she found more pleasure when water solidifed to become ice. She loved ice a lot. Seeing as there was probably going to be nothing to do for the entire day she was thinking that maybe training one water and then one ice juts from her scroll that she brought along with her on this trip was going to be beneficial. There were a lot of jutsus in that scroll that she hadn't learned yet. There were a few ice ones that sounded cool but she was in a particular craving for water jutsus.

She retrieved the scroll from her kimono and looked for a water jutsu she hadn't learned yet. Her latest and greatest achievement was Yuki no Kami B rank which almost took half her life just trying to learn the basic. She opened the scroll further to look for one jutsu that used primarily water and less of Yuki no Kami. Since most of the jutsus left to learn were all B rank requiring the need of Yuki no Kami at the same rank, she had decided to learn that first. And it was a good choice she made too. She found that a jutsu named Sensatsu Suishou was yet to be learned. It was basically a jutsu that created water needles.

It would come in handy in a battle. Smirking she looked over the important information particularly the handseals and any other information that she might need. She saw that under the domain it said Yuki no Kami even though ice was not necessary. It was probably just as a foundation. She thought it might be pretty easy since she didn't have to turn water into ice this time. But the easier the jutsu seemed the harder it actually was. She tucked her scroll back neatly excitement rising with the first official training session in Hi no Kuni.