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Going for an C-Rank. Spiritualism Technique. 1500 Words. Nin-6 Wit-8 = 14*50= 700. 1500-700=800 words needed.
Today though, he had been given a rather odd task. As a messenger and employee of the offices of the Kage, he had been all over Kumogakure and was familiar with most of the village. But now, this assignment... His boss had brought him a sealed scroll. He was told to deliver the scroll to a low stone wall several miles outside the village. No one would be there and he was to leave the scroll under a rock at the base of the wall 200 feet down said wall from the road. No, as he waved to the village shinobi guarding the gates, he wondered just what kind of delivery this was.
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At the location specified, the man glanced around cautiously. He was standing at the drop point, at the low stone wall. It was true, there wasn't anyone nearby that he could see. But he couldn't shake the feeling that he was being watched. No matter where he turned, there was no one around, and there were hardly any sounds but the chirping of birds and the chirping of grasshoppers. A chill ran up the man's spine and a cold sweat was forming over his skin as he placed the scroll beneath the stone that stood out a bit from the rest of the wall. The man turned and ran as fast as he could back to the road and back towards the village. Just what the hell had been on that scroll? It had occurred to him before that it was the right size and design for a ninja scroll, and such things could be highly dangerous for non-shinobi to carry. Who knew what was written on the scroll, but if it had been something of vital importance or if he was supposed to have risked his life to keep it safe, he would have been told so. So he was out of there just as fast as his legs would carry him.
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Shindara sat in a tree on the tree line at the edge of the field surrounding the stone wall the man had dropped the scroll at. He chewed a long piece of grass, languishing against the trunk of the tree. The guy sure had taken off in a hurry. For a pencil pusher he had some pretty good instincts. he had probably felt Shindara monitoring him from afar. The feeling of being watched was something most anyone could feel. It wasn't a skill limited to just shinobi. Rolling to his right, Shindara dropped from the tree, landing gracefully, and started across the field towards the wall where the man had left the scroll.
Taking the scroll out from under the rock, Shindara studied it for a second, making sure there wasn't anything suspicious about it before breaking the seal and flinging the scroll open across the top of the stone wall. The scroll was a copy of a jutsu scroll. Normally, scrolls like this would be kept under complete control and supervision, and copies would rarely ever be made. But, this jutsu wasn't anything the village was concerned about keeping hidden. Indeed, the secrecy in the scroll's delivery was more for Shindara's benefit than the scroll's.
The jutsu on the scroll was the simple Spiritualism Technique summoning ability. The technique was one of the more basic of jutsu. It could be found most anywhere in the world. Shindara had left a signal at the outpost that he wanted to send a message. When he had seen the responding signal, he left his message in a secured location, and it had been transferred to Kumogakure, to the office of the Raikage. It was unlikely the Raikage himself had dealt with the request for the scroll. It was likely that he had at least one staff member set up to deal with the unimportant requests and duties of the Black Ops. And so, the scroll had been sent.
Studying the jutsu on the scroll, Shindara smirked. It really was simple. He was surprised he had overlooked it back when he was in school. Of course, at that time he hadn't known the skills that he would eventually develop, and how this jutsu would become necessary in his future. Taking a few more minutes to study the technique, he then picked up the scroll and, lighting a match, he lit the scroll on fire. He allowed it to burn for a minute or two before dropping it to the ground. He stood there, watching it burn until he was satisfied that it was completely destroyed. Even though the jutsu wasn't all that important, it was still a document from Kumogakure, even if there were no identifying marks. As Shindara made his way away from the drop site, he chuckled to himself. "Honestly, so simple. I'm surprised I didn't figure it out on my own."
Stopping in a little clearing back within the tree line, Shindara took a moment, listening to the wind. He didn't hear anyone nearby, his accute sense of hearing telling him he should be safe. Alright, time to see if I can't put this into practice. Shindara took a moment to run the jutsu through his head. The basic summoning technique was the root for all summoning abilities. It revolved around the simple premise of using one's chakra to summon a being or object to one's current location. It seemed to him that the idea would be to almost call out with one's chakra for the target being you wanted to summon. Like a transmission of sorts. That made him wonder, did the summoning technique release readable chakra into the surrounding atmosphere? Would using the technique alert any sensor-type shinobi in the vicinity of his presence?
Well, he was within the borders of the lightening country, and not all that far from Kumogakure. Though he had to be careful about being found out by other Kumo shinobi... He shouldn't have to worry too much about enemies moving in on his location. He began forming hands seals. It was slow at first. He was taking his time memorizing the seals. It was very important to make sure one had the right seals in the right order. Mistakes could be deadly on the battlefield. After he thought he had the seals down, Yuan decided to give the technique a try. He cycled through the seals with the speed of an experienced shinobi and slammed his palm into the ground.
Nothing happened... Yuan stood there in the rather awkward palm-to-ground stance for a few seconds... Just to be sure nothing was going to happen. Rising from his position, Yuan scratched his head. He knew he didn't have a summon on which he could call... But still, there should be some smoke or something. Yuan had seen summons performed before, and there was usually a big puff of smoke or something. Yuan took a moment to think about how he had performed the jutsu and what mistakes he could have made. He thought back to the scroll he had been reading just a few moments before. Could he have misread the required hand seals? He didn't think so... But then, there were certain hand seals that looked similar to one another. Yuan began moving through the hand seals slowly, considering them one by one. After a few moments of consideration, he decided on a likely change that needed to be made.
His course of action decided on, Yuan prepared to try the jutsu again. His hands flashed as they sped through the hand seals. Slamming his palm against the ground once more, Yuan watched, hoping that he would get some reaction this time. From between his fingers, a small *poof* of smoke arose. Yuan smirked sarcastically. It was good that he got at least some reaction... But it was still pretty pathetic. Since he was able to get a reaction, though, that should be an indication that he had the hand seals correct. So, it was probably something to do with his chakra manipulation.
Sitting down, Yuan slowly made each hand seal in the proper order, stopping on each one to focus on how he was distributing, gathering and releasing his chakra. He tried making some changes to the flow of his chakra for each of the seals he made. He had to get a feel for how he used his chakra with each hand seal, because he wouldn't be able to analyze or over think that sort of thing when he was out in the field. It was like using a sword or riding a horse or any number of other things such as this. Whenever someone became truly skilled at something, their body would memorize the feeling of the movements they needed to make to perform a task, so they could do them without thinking to much about them. It was the same thing here. Yuan's body memorized each burst of chakra that he released so that he would remember the feeling and be able to perform the chakra manipulation virtually subconsciously.
Standing again, Yuan took a deep breath. Once again, his hands flashed through a series of hand seals. He bent down and slammed his palm against the ground. This time, there was a large blast of smoke that sot out to all sides around him. Again, nothing showed up to his summons, but Yuan was satisfied. That attempt looked just like the summoning techniques he had seen in the past.
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1749 words. 777 should count as actual work on the jutsu. 100 words allowed for set-up.