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Mizu No Kuni. Again.

A gray bubble of wrinkles, mist-thick and agitated, pushed out by the spread of patchwork islands. Count the bloated bodies that give edge to the sunken veldt, hate how the mazes of dull marsh pretending to be separate rock masses are named after lost ships or folktales. Remember this place, this conundrum. This land that is somehow also water. It is never considered to be a graveyard until it is too late.

Near the rough coast of Harmony Gambler - a shantytown of gimcrack sheds and stray animals - people sell and buy and barter anything. They trade murder for cheese and scraps of colored paper, right here, where he stood, where the countryside faded to become a drowning dirt knot dotted with hovels. As Naitome rambled off a falsetto cluster of nonsensical questions and merchant slang, he was met by the mumbling reply of those who would slit his throat for having something of value, or for having nothing at all.

There is a war happening, they'd heard. They didn't care who won.

He moved through their market place like an excited tourist, pointing at exotic hanging meat or birds with equal fervor. How much? he asked squealing, for an edible child's toy. It was shaped more or less like a little girl, carved from onion and wearing a painted dress of cinnamon and honey. It's owner shook it, humming, set its candied shoes on his own arm. You see? How the legs move? Is like walking. Good toy! Not many like it. For you? Cheap price. Tiny piece of your liver. Cut cut, gone, almost no pain. Is deal, yes? The Jonin shook his head from side to side, frowning. He'd already named all the pieces of his liver. They were like family now. He moved on.

Night swallowed day; with tree-teeth and swamp-teeth, and fog. There were no inns or taverns close by; those who drank did so wherever they pleased and those who did not live along this sliver of mercantile treachery left as soon as they could. In order to sleep, Naitome would be forced to seek high ground, above the beasts cornering future food in the rot miasma. Enveloped in a pitch of stale sunless hours, restless and exhausted at the same time. He settled atop an old iron watchtower, hidden by a canopy of ribbed brown leaves, home to an abandoned nest smeared with rust. He lay flat, arms stiffly at his side, then spasmed his body in every direction, before kicking his feet at the criss-crossed shell of twigs surrounding him. He began to hum a tune he'd heard from a sharkborn sailor, then stopped as abruptly as he'd started, spit, laughed, searched frantically to follow where his spit had gone.

He stared at a small fraction of the face of his home's moonlit reflection bend around the moisture wrapping the world. He shouted at animals when they sounded off in fear or hunger, shouted louder when they grew silent, cursing the empty lull.

He did not sleep, but he dreamt.

UNIVERSAL NINJUTSU

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Shunshin no Jutsu (Body Flicker Technique) ^{10 EXP}
Rank: D
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m), Mid (5m ~ 10m)
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: -
Chakra Consumption: Miniscule
Shunshin no Jutsu is a basic Ninjutsu technique used across the shinobi world by all, ranging from the most basic shinobi to the legends of lore. Considered a high-speed movement technique - to an observer caught in the optical illusion, it appears as if the user has teleported. This allows the user to escape or attack suddenly, should they need to. However, while a high-speed movement, if used in broad daylight, one will still be quite visible and as such, easier to be defended against. In order to achieve maximum effect, the user must combine it with a distraction.

Note: Despite popular belief, this is not an ability that allows an individual to teleport, or even move incomprehensibly fast. It simply combines high mobility with some disruption of visibility to conceal those movements. That in mind, if you can conceal your movement, it is common for this technique to allow very long-distance dashes before enemies may notice you.



Fuubaku Houjin (Exploding Seal Method Formation) ^{10 EXP}
Rank: D
Range: -
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: 1
Chakra Consumption: Miniscule
Fuubaku Houjin is a Ninjutsu technique used by shinobi in conjunction with common explosive devices such as exploding notes. With this, the user can choose when their explosives detonate, opposed to being at the mercy of a countdown.

Note: This ability allows the user detonate his or her explosive notes, opposed to allowing them to be "timed" explosives. Without this technique, the user cannot automatically detonate their tags.



Kai (Release) ^{10 EXP}
Rank: D
Range: -
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: 1
Chakra Consumption: Equivalent to affected Genjutsu + Miniscule / Equivalent to affected Genjutsu if done by another
Kai is a Ninjutsu technique which allows the ninja to avoid the effects of a Genjutsu illusion. After forming the needed handseals, the Genjutsu technique will not affect the ninja. The ninja can also use the technique on another individual who was unable to avoid the attack. After forming the needed hand seals, the ninja touches the one affected to end the affect of the spell.



Hitei Mushou (Flying Nail Mist Pierce) ^{25 EXP}
Rank: C
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Offensive
Handseals: 3
Chakra Consumption: Low
Ninpou - Hitei Mushou is Ninjutsu technique universally known by shinobi across the globe. After forming the needed handseal, the user will emit a flying mist of small nails from their mouth, created entirely of the user's chakra. These small nails can travel towards their opponent at quite a distance, moving at impressive speeds and retain even more impressive accuracy!




Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Technique) ^{25 EXP}
Rank: C
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: 3
Chakra Consumption: Miniscule - Massive
A powerful jutsu intended to call forth aid when in dire need. Kuchiyose allows a ninja to summon a a variety of entities and items meant to assist them. From people to animals to inanimate objects, these creations come forth out of thin air near-instantly after the seals are done and into the battlefield. Keep in mind each summoning in question requires a previous contract to be filled out. Finally, signing this contract also allows said summoning to be able to reverse summon the human ninja to their own location.

Note: All summons have their own Chakra cost, which the user will need to meet in order to bring them forth. In terms of inanimate objects, the user can summon up to ten secondary weapons for a Miniscule amount of Chakra (per summoning); on the other hand, they may summon up to five primary weapons for a Low amount of Chakra (per summoning).




Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Technique) ^{50 EXP}
Rank: B
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m), Mid (5m ~ 10m), Far (10m+)
Type: Supplementary
Handseals: 1
Chakra Consumption: Chakra is split evenly among clones and original
Kage Bunshin is an advanced Ninjutsu technique which grants the user the ability to create a tangible clone. Kage Bunshin distributes the ninja's Chakra evenly among the clones and creates a real copy with form and substance, to the point the clone can utilize any jutsu the original ninja knows, and spawns with any equipment the user has on them at the time of creation. When the clone finally disperses, any knowledge it has gained is passed back to the original ninja and any additional clones.

Note: This technique is only capable of being learned by Jounin or above. Up to a maximum of five clones can be created. Please note that the user’s Chakra is divided evenly among however many clones they create. Upon being destroyed, whatever remaining Chakra the clone has is given back to the user. Despite having an extended range (virtually limitless), these clones must be created within five meters of the user.



Kage Bunshin Bakuha (Shadow Clone Explosion) ^{150 EXP}
Rank: A
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m)
Type: Offensive
Handseals: 1
Chakra Consumption: Mid
A follow up technique to the regular Kage Bunshin, Bunshin Bakuha is an advanced ninjutsu technique utilized by highly skilled and ranked shinobi in order for them to detonate a regular Shadow Clone at impressive levels. Once a normal Kage Bunshin is created, the user can detonate the clone at any time to form a very large explosion. The Chakra left within the clone forms the energy behind the blast, and although it lacks fiery properties, the sudden blast and subsequent implosion/explosion phase is enough to blast through rock easily, leaving serious dents in steel/metal creations.

Note: The chakra within the Kage Bunshin is lost. This technique can only detonate one clone at a time (per post).


KATON (FIRE STYLE)

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