Doton • Reaper of Earth
S-Rank Ninjutsu
Prerequisite: 40 Ninjutsu
Channeling his chakra, the user will have their body coated by a compact inch of hard layer of doton chakra, and around that, a one foot of residual swirling dust and rocks that move erratically around them. This cloak of earth is shaped relatively perfect to his body, giving the illusion of a worn cloak of stone. While active, anything attempting to physically breach Kasai's cloak that possess less than 50 strength is instantly repelled and airborne contaminants or particulates find themselves blown away by the rotating dust current before they could ever reach the wearer. This cloak materializes at a speed of 30. This cloak lasts for 9 posts.
S Ranked – 2800 Words
[50+31] x 20 = 1620
Words needed = 1180 Minimum
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Kasai set upon a boulder that had managed to break away from the cliff face that overlooked the large lake that contained the isolated island in which the village of Kiri lay within the several shrouding layers of think mist. The old man had found that by removing himself from the distractions that came from the village and shinobi that it gave him the ability to assess himself and where he stood as a shinobi himself. Being able to clearly ascertain exactly where his strengths as a ninja lay and on the flip side of that coin the monster of a man was also able to see the flaws in his fighting style and the holes that had been left within his own arsenal of elemental techniques.
More so today the man had ventured to the edge of the village's borders on the far side of the lake to take a truly in depth view at one of his most fluent elements after suiton, doton. It was the first element that he had learned as a young boy even before graduating to become a genin. And as one could imagine the old made who had lived for over five decades had managed to develop quite a numerous amount of earthen based ninjutsu. Being from the village hidden in the mist it had been rather easy to find those with the same secondary affinity as himself and in turn it had been one of the easier elements to progress and ultimately master with the ability to utilize kinesis with the said element after doing so with suiton.
But the man was able to tell that his strengths actually went beyond just the ability to utilize the element through the use of kinesis and was actually the drew from both his massive chakra pool and being at not only the apex of understanding when it came down to elemental Ninjutsu but also his ability to draw out the full strength of any element that he learned. Being able to wipe out hundreds of people with a single technique, be it a costly one, a series of techniques with massive scale to them that could destroy whatever was placed before them. At the moment this was the true source of strength that lay hidden with the crimson haired old man but it was almost too obvious to even him the drawbacks of such large scale, area of effect based elemental techniques.
This drawback was of course that the attacks were unable to truly discriminate between friend and for, just killing anything and everything that just so happened to fall with their range and path. While it used to not pose any problem for the old ninja due to the fact that he mainly was tasked with the stalking and killing of high profile target on his own. In such a situation he never need to worry about having any blue on blue action and injuring or accidentally killing a fellow Kiri nin. It was time for him to work on creating specific techniques that would allow for him to be much more precise in his attacks, because the role he would fill in the future for his village was no longer that of their famed assassin known only as the Black Reaper.
No, instead he would be revered as the next Mizukage if the Hidden Mist, as long as he didn't end up dying in the process of assassinating the current Kage. In order to complete a task that is almost considered impossible by others their was also another weakness that he had fail to mention. It was another aspect of him that at first glance could be seen as a strength. That being his so called undying body, his elemental body that was capable of shifting between his different elements as needed. While it was true that he was no longer capable of dying due to age, disease, or lack of nutrients the shinobi was still capable of dying if his special core was damaged.
It was also this so called elemental body of his that supplemented his current weakness in close range combat. The man who was still seated on top of the large boulder was mentally trying to combined his weaknesses and his strengths in order to develop a new technique that would help to better conceal the mentioned imperfections of his current self. At that very moment both of the distance looking eyes widened without a warning as to why. It appeared as though the man had made some tipped off significant discovery with his deep thoughts. The man had found at least an eighty percent solution to his current predicament from an old battle between himself and a Earth shinobi back many years ago.
It was during that fight when he was locked in combat with the said ninja that the enemy had utilized a cloak style Ninjutsu that covered the man from head to toe in doton beating back Kasai's own suiton jutsu as the fought back and forth at taijutsu range with each other. If Kasai had been only fluent in that single element at the time then he would have truly been in an even more dangerous position than he already was during the fight. In the end he was able to switch to another of his other elemental affinities to counter the cloak and ultimately defeat the target. At first the memory was a bit jumbled and blurry to the old man but as he focused more the details became more clear to him and a half smile crossed the scarred man's normally emotion lacking face.
"I understand just what it is that I need to do in order to make this work. That man's skill in his element was quite good but it would be truly lacking if he were to be compared to the me of today. Not only will I develop my own version of that technique but it will also be even stronger and imposing than that technique in the past. Truly worthy of a Reaper of the living..." Words that sounded as if they had been whispered straight from the Death God filled the immediate area around Kasai as he actually spoke aloud to himself at this moment with those soft words slipping through a crack in his thin, scarred lips now. That smile on hais lips actually didn't fade as both hands came together and a think blue outline of chakra could be seen upon the Reaper's body now as he slowly levitated up from the sitting position into a standing one.
The stone and around underneath and around him began to churn lightly as though it was able to understand the thoughts and emotions that were being emitted out from the Kiri ninja in this moment. Slowly but steadily the rocks and dirt started to creep from beneath the surface as tentacle like appendages of doton chakra before they started from the man's feet beginning to wrap around and coat their master's body inch by inch. Taking several slow minutes before that were able to reach even the shoulders of the seven foot tall man as he stood motionless, simply concentrating on the application of the layer of elemental chakra to his body at the moment and nothing else.
Yet, in the end the first several attempts either failed in the process of the last steps or the closing was to thin and lacked the desired defensive power. But eventually the man would find the harmony needed and create a strong and stable version to continue building off of...
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