[Weapon] Anger

[Kao]

Just beyond the borders of Water Country lied an island known a Shikine. Its only inhabitants were seasonal fisherman who would dot its shores with shabby tents and hastily constructed shacks. The fish had moved on, and at this time of year the only creatures on the island were its native wildlife - deer and small foxes, rabbits and rodents, and colorful flocks of birds kept the island active and alive.

On the island's northern side was a vertical sea cliff, carved by raging seas and high winds. It dropped dramatically into jagged rocks below, rising from the ocean like the teeth of a ravenous beast. At the top of the cliff was a macabre scene, incongruous with the seascape in some ways and fitting in other. The sand was littered with pools of drying blood and bits of flesh. Clumps of hair and armor were scattered about, resting on top of shattered bones. The largest piece human debris was a severed hand, still defiantly gripping the handle of a sword. It lay silently in its sheath, completely undamaged despite the surrounding carnage.

A lone figure stood before it. The person was lucky to have avoided the battle, and all that was left was to pry the sword from its previous owner's cold, dead hand.

[Zao]

The back robed man had watched from a distance with his 'sniper eye', carefully observing the battle but most in particular was the sword relic carried by the man on one side. It was this rather plan looking sheathed sword that he had come here seeking at the request of the organization. Though he had little knowledge of why the sword was of importance to the old man he served it didn't stop him from carrying out his orders to recover the items. But it would appear that luck was on his side as the puppet body nin had been planning an ambush strategy just before an opposing party had showed up and chaos insued.

Now he stood almost what remained of the bodily battle, the dark skinned feet of his barefoot in the crimson stained sand as he walked through pieces of armor and flesh. His dark cloak causing him to appear rather wide and bulky at the moment due to both kunai launchers and both senbon launchers deployed. Not only were his launchers in place and ready to deal with what ever threat might appear but his spere tipped cable tail had been extended about a meter out. Allowed to dangle behind him like some sort of real real ad the tip was concealed under the long cloak for the time being.

A few moments later the man found himself face to face with what he'd traveled all this way to retrieve. The shinobi didn't even blink nor hesitate away the severed hand that still gripped the sword hilt tightly even in death. Reaching directly down to take the weapon and hand still holding on...

StatisticsShow

Ninjutsu: 20
Taijutsu/Deftness: 35 *
Genjutsu: 1
Stamina/Durability: 29
Control: 35 *
Strength/Strength: 35 *
Speed/Mobility: 20 *
Instinct: 25

200 total stats

[Izanagi]

It had been nearly 6 months since Shinjiro had first come within reach of the Legendary sword known as Anger. He hadn’t actually laid eyes on the weapon before though he had discovered a shrine dedicated to it with depictions of the weapon and a dusty mantle that had only recently been disturbed. He had his suspicions that one of his travelling companions at the time might have taken possession of the weapon though ultimately he had never verified this. Still, something about the sword called to him. As a member of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist he felt dutybound to locate a unique sword befitting his position and so he had spent a good portion of his savings into paying informants to keep an ear out for any such tales of the weapon surfacing. The Karagata shipping network was vast and sailors loved to trade stories but they also knew better than to spin too many tales and stretch one’s imagination when it came to dealing with a true blooded Karagata.

After chasing a handful of leads over the last few months, Shinjiro found one that seemed the most promising thus far. An island not too far from his native Water Country no less. Evidently Shinji was not the only individual who had received word of the weapon’s current location. As he approached the island, flying about as a seagull, Shinjiro observed the carnage, flying amongst a few other seagulls he would spot the weapon but wait out the situation for a few minutes until he could be sure that there wasn’t anyone else laying in wait, for the corpses of those whom had fought over it were still warm. His caution proved warranted when a man in strange armor, appearing to have 6 arms emerged, walking towards the weapon.

Moving along with a handful of other Seagulls that had approached the corpses out of curiosity or perhaps hunger, Shinjiro would come within 20 meters, not having any reason to have drawn suspicion before shifting his flying to a manner in which he removed all sound of his movement as he suddenly picked up in speed, swooping in like a bullet as the man reached for the severed hand and more importantly the weapon attached to it. An instant before reaching the puppeteers arm, Shinji would transform back into his human form, slashing with imperceivable speed to sever his opponents hand in one motion and his head with another, both happening almost simultaneously before the blade was sheathed once more as Shinjiro grabbed the weapon known as ‘Anger’ with his free hand. With his body leaving an afterimage at the moment he grabbed the sword the real Shinjiro would waste no time in leaping over the edge of the cliff and transforming into a fly, the newly acquired weapon along with the rest of his belongings transforming with him as he aimed to zip across the Ocean and disappear before anybody else could show up to contest his prize.

Jutsu UsedShow

Form 1

Messenger bird
C-Rank Full Kaerujutsu
Prerequisite: Form 1
This transformation allows Shinjiro to take on the form of various medium sized bird species used to delivery messages. This includes small hawks, pigeons, and doves. This transformation is also one of the rare instances where Shinjiro is not granted any stat changes.

Situational Awareness
C-rank Taijutsu Discipline
Prerequisite: 20 Instinct, [Perception]
Shinji has developed a keen sense of awareness of his environment. His innate attention to detail allows him to memorize the layout of an area or building as well as having a knack for identifying the entrances and exits as well as the positions of any other people in the area and even important details about that person. This grants him an almost a sixth sense in combat situations and his constant readiness allows him to more easily detect and escape from ambushes.

Shadow Step
B-Rank Taijutsu Discipline
Prerequisite:[Stealth]
Trained in the ways of an Assassin, silent movement is one of the Karagata families most esteemed talents. Shinjiro can run at his full speed without making a sound, light on his toes and able to breathe softly and evenly at the perfect opportunities he is so skilled that even his clothes or weapons don’t rustle. Even his heartbeat is slow and barely detectable unless an opponent has an enhanced hearing technique of equivalent or higher rank. However when walking his stealth is superior to such an extent that he is completely undetectable by means of sound.

*[Iaido • Double Back Draw]
C-Rank Kenjutsu Maneuver
Prerequisite: 15 Speed
The technique realizes the concept of a draw's momentum increasing attack speed rather than the technique of drawing itself. With this concept, the user draws their weapon and then makes an upwards slash followed by a second downward slash, and then an immediate re-sheath. This causes two deep diagonal cuts in the direction of the draw and re-sheath that happen near instantaneously.

*[Iaido • Iai Beheading Draw]
B-Rank Taijutsu Maneuver
Prerequisite: *Iaido • Beheading Draw, 25 Speed
With a Variation of the Beheading Draw technique, the user forces a very quick snap of tension and torque through their arm as they draw their sword sending it vertically or across with great speed. With its speed, the strike takes on a blur, many times not even appearing to be drawn from its sheath. This slash is also incredibly powerful with its speed, able to slice through stone in most cases with enough power.

Blurred Movement
B-Rank Taijutsu Discipline
Prerequisite: 25 Speed
Having honed his body to operating at high speeds Shinjiro has developed the ability to blur his movements so long as he is moving at least 5 Speed higher than the opponents Instinct making his fine movements more difficult to determine. If his Speed is 10 higher than their instinct then Shinjiro will seem to leave afterimages of himself in his wake that will persist for a full post before fading.

Flying Insect
C-Ranked Full Kaerujutsu
Prerequisite: Form 1
This transformation allows Shinjiro to take on the form of a winged insect, typically a fly or flying ant though similar species are also optional. Colorations will match those of the native species, making detection virtually impossible short of chakra sensory. In this form he can slip through cracks most people wouldn’t even notice. +6 Instinct, +7 Speed, -3 Stamina

[Zao]

The syndicate enforcer was no stranger close combat, but even he couldn't help but be caught off guard for a brief moment as the seagull that appeared speeds to great for that of a normal bird entered into his peripheral vision. Stranger that that was the fact that the normal sized bird transformed into the slender humanoid figure who attacked without warning, the first blow cleanly severing the metallic hand that had reached out at the wrist without resistance from the cloaked figure. However, the 'perfect body' of the man wasn't without retort to this action as the man had positioned himself at point blank range in front of the bulky figure. As the second attack was made in the terms of the 'itchy trigger fingers' of the man's launchers who were pointed at the swordsman. From within the cloak forty eight kunai and forty senbon was launched in total at the same time from the two kunai launcher systems and the two senbon launchers without regard for his own life it would seem not even attempting to dodge the sword attack timed to behead him at that point.

If the figure was able to dodge and/or survive the sudden storm of Neutronium weapons that were released all at once from the launchers towards himself or herself and still flee, then it would appear that Hyōryū truly was fated with bad luck and had not karma with the old relic which he'd been sent to retrieve by those old men who ran the organization. All that was left up to the reach of the figure who had ambushed him as it would seem from the outside point of view that he would rather die alongside the stranger that dodge the attack meant to behead him now. Snaking around the right side of his body (assuming that the shinobi came from the left side) the Neutronium spear tipped tail attempted to stab into the path in which the assailant was moving towards as another means of trying to take the unknown attackers life and/or injury the figure along with the senbon and kunai. Should all this fail then the sword would belong to the sneaky bird person..

StuffShow

48 kunai an 40 senbon


Quad Kunai Launcher x2

Description: A four part kunai launder. Each part of the launcher is made up of six "barrels" connected in a circle with the parts forming a squad around the right forearm. The base of the launcher joining together upon the bicep portion of the arm where a large circular mechanism competes the launcher and the barrels extending from the elbow down to the wrist in length. Inside the circular mechanism is where the additional kunai are stored and loaded into the launchers. Each of the four parts are capable of launching a volley of six kunai up to twice per post, taking half a post to reload for each launcher with the bottom two launcher able to reload seven time and the upper two launchers able to reload eight times before running out of ammo. This custom kunai launcher contains a total of a 180 Neutronium kunai and is capable of firing its projectiles at a speed and strength equal to the user’s [Deftness] and [Strength] stats, able to shoot kunai out to [Deftness x4] meters. The kunai launcher is sealed within a [Puppet Storage] fuuinjutsu on the arm when not in use or needed.


Senbon Blaster x2

Description: A senbon launcher capable of launching a blast of senbon creating a small cloud of the steel needles. Attached to the outside forearm of the left arm, taking up the entire length of the forearm from elbow to wrist, the launcher operates in a cylinder style manner rotating through 'ammo pods' that contain twenty senbon within each with the circular ammo contain circling around the arm. The launcher sprays forth all twenty of the senbon found within the pod in one blast.

The launcher is capable of firing its projectiles at a speed and strength equal to the user's [Deftness] and [Strength] stats, out to [Deftness x2] meters at full speed and strength. At [Deftness] meters the spread of the senbon blast is .5 meters and at [Deftness x2] meters the spread increases to one [1] meter in diameter. After firing the ammo cylinder rotates feeding a new pod into the firing mechanism. Currently the weapon cylinder holds thirteen of the Neutronium senbon filled 'ammo pods'. The senbon launcher is sealed within a puppet storage skill on the arm when not in use or needed.


Cord Spear Tail

Description: Located on the back of the puppet body is a steel sectioned spear tip like weapon, being about a foot in length and three inches in width, attached to the puppet by a half inch diameter steel capable extending from the coil concealed within the lower back within the puppet up to twenty five meters in length under the control of the user at a [Speed] and [Strength] equal to the puppet body's [Deftness]. The spear tip is forged from Neutronium.

[Izanagi]

Time seemed to slow down as Shinjiro attempted his beheading slash. He realized too late that his opponent had been ready and waiting for a possible enemy. A volley of weaponry shot out from several mechanisms, causing Shinji to kick off of his opponent's chest as he utilized his slashing motion to intercept several of the projectiles that would have hit him in more critical spots. Adjusting his body in slight ways as he flung himself backward he aimed to further prevent lethal injury. Though as several senbon pierced his left forearm he found his grip shot, causing him to drop the sword known as Anger. "Damn you" he sputtered, he recognized that he had been struck at least a dozen times, many grazing him but several weapons imbedded deep into his limbs and even a couple senbon in his stomach. Green chakra flared around him as he transformed into a flying beetle. "One day that sword will be mine" he vowed, his voice seeming to come from nowhere in particular as he flew off, able to easily evade any further barrage or weapons in this form. His wounds wouldn't be fatal but he was in bad shape and would have to find somewhere to rest and tend to his wounds when he was able and from there make it back to Kirigakure where he could recieve proper medical care. This puppet user had been far more dangerous than he had anticipated and moreover, he had been reckless in thinking he could rely on his speed over proper defenses and precautions. It was a mistake he would not soon make again.

Jutsu UsedShow

Assassins Fortitude
C-Rank Taijutsu Discipline
Prerequitite: [Rigid Structure]
Having grown up exposed to all manner of pain and torture Shinjiro’s pain receptors have been numbed as a result, in addition to his own tolerance surpassing the threshold of most shinobi. He can withstand up to moderate lacerations, burns, fractures, bludgeoning and electrocution without even flinching. This allows him to continue to fight and push through such sensations without impairing his focus. The drawback to such resistance is that he can very easily underestimate how badly he is injured which could lead to potentially fatal consequences. Moreover breaking genjutsu through pain becomes much more difficult and highly impractical.

Combat Intuition
B-Rank Taijutsu Discipline
Prerequisite: 25 Instinct, [Perception], [Close Quarters Combat]
A skill to maximize efficiency of movement, Shinji has learned to utilize his head and body movements to avoid incoming attacks without sacrificing maneuverability or speed. So long as his (Taijutsu+Instinct+Speed)/3 is higher than his opponents (Taijutsu+Speed)/2 he can make minor ducks, shifts and weaves out of the path of most incoming strikes and projectiles, often allowing him to capitalize on counters based on the openings that a miss provides. Though typically Shinji must be able to perceive an incoming attack, after he has evaded a maneuver once he is far more likely to be able to anticipate and predict an opponent’s attack pattern, often beginning his evasion or block the instant an opponent begins their attack.

Flying Insect
C-Ranked Full Kaerujutsu
Prerequisite: Form 1
This transformation allows Shinjiro to take on the form of a winged insect, typically a fly or flying ant though similar species are also optional. Colorations will match those of the native species, making detection virtually impossible short of chakra sensory. In this form he can slip through cracks most people wouldn’t even notice. +6 Instinct, +7 Speed, -3 Stamina

[Zao]

'What powerful instincts...' The puppet body criminal couldn't help but silently comment on the last minute change in the shinobi's attack, if he'd attempted to continue with that last slash then he would have been impaled and died in a short period of time if not immediately. To some extent the man also found it that the younger shinobi had a bit of luck. As the boy kicked back a series of multiple clicking sounds could be heard as all the weapons were reloading all at once, happening on pure instinct as the man wasn't even actively thinking to perform this action. He was planning to finish off the ambusher now with a second barrage as his body quickly stabilized itself as the legs widened a bit creating a stable platform to fire accurately from now as red eyes seemed to glow beneath the large hood tracking the fleeing movements of the shinobi now.

The prey was injured and it was now time for him to go in for the kill, an eye for an eye really, the weapons rose back up coming onto target he launched forth a second barrage of purple steel towards the target planning to end this in a coming exchange. But even he was slightly surprised to find the Kiri shinobi able to transform into a tiny insect allowing for him to find the small opening between the projectiles and begin to rapidly flee. "Keke…" A rather sinister chuckle echoed from the metallic head out into the blood covered field. It would seem that this was no normal shinobi who had ambushed him after all. Able to transform without channeling chakra or the use of hand seals...was it some sort of ability or even something else? At this point he didn't feel the need to continue the hunting game with this one as the tiny dot quickly fled, despite being effected by the metal's poison he was still far to fast for his own current level of mobility.

"He's a rather quick witted one, not sticking around to fight with that kind of injury..." He'd been unable to land a solid lethal blow on the enemy because the first barrage was literally fired from the hip and wasn't as precise as his shots would have normally been. This combined with the level of instinct and swordplay the foreign shinobi possessed allowed for Shinji to escape with his life today, at least for the time being. Giving the information and appearance that he was able to gather from the brief incursion he'd report back to the old man and his information network to help decipher just whom the stranger who attacked him was. Then he'd be the one to attack first next time...hunting target's was quickly becoming his favorite past time. From the severed limb a series of slender cables stretched out from the stub and collected the relic sword and his own hand before retracting them back into the shadows of the cloak. "Seems I've completed this job, time to depart..."

With nothing else left for him here after acquiring the weapon, he quickly departed in the opposite direction toward a waiting vessel that couldn't be seen in the distance, it was the ship manned by members of the syndicate who'd brought him here to look for the very sword in his possession. But now he couldn't help but wonder more than ever just what was so special about this seemingly ordinary looking weapon...perhaps the old man could enlighten him later when he made it back to the mainland...with all the hidden weaponary reloaded the man left the scene of the battle and disappeared into the distance...

(Exit)

[Izanagi]

(OOC: Alright, edited. Shinji is injured and retreating. Exit Thread. Sword is all yours)