In Preparation

[Golnax]

Shiun Kinoko stepped into the Kumogakure training field that Akihiko had shown her before, still as much of a mess as it had been when she last saw it. By now she had gotten used to the climate there in the village hidden in the clouds that she could exist with her jacket unzipped fully, but she was still wearing the puffy purple garment. She was still pretty cold compared to what she was used to, after all.

Chilliness aside the young samurai would walk out into the field ahead of the pink haired Shinobi and kick at some left over equipment lying on the ground. Man, she really just could not get over how sloppy this was! She would have never gotten away with this back in Tea, it would have earned her a harsh scolding about discipline if she had even brought up the suggestion of not putting equipment away! So either Kumogakure had an abundance of ninja tools lying around that they could just leave military equipment like shuriken lying in the dirt (in reality there was probably no danger in doing so considering a civilian trying to use one would probably be harmless to an actual ninja), or the ninja of Kumogakure were just that much less disciplined than the samurai of Heart.

Given Alihiko's behavior, she was inclined to believe the latter.

Turning back to her training partner of choices the dark skinned samurai smiled, feeling chipper! After all, he was totally going to show him some real ninjutsu this time, right? He wasn't going to lie and just say he was doing something cool but then not actually so anything, right? Either way, Shiun knew what she was going to be training. From her perspective, Akihiko had had the fault to try and trick her into thinking that he was cooler than he actually was! Well, she was going to show him that she was known as the Amethyst Deciever for a reason!

... Even if she was the only one that called herself that. Right now.

To that end, Shiun raised her hands up and formed a quick string of handseals, calling out loud and clear after she was done, "SO! Here we are again, back at it and ready to do some training together!" It was barely a statement, really. A sentence for sure, the contents of which didn't matter. All that mattered was that Akihiko heard her, because if he did he would be caught in her genjutsu! Ensnared! Bewitched! And the contents of that genjutsu would be...!

Nothing. Well, certainly nothing obvious but to Akihiko it would actually be kind of a do nothing jutsu. Hell, he might have even believed that she hadn't even performed a jutsu at all and was instead practicing her handseals because, much like he had done earlier, Shiun seemed to have done absolutely nothing! And so it would remain for quite a while, in fact, because, for the most part, this genjutsu largely did nothing at all. It was the sort of mental jutsu that was so subtle, so deviously cunning, that it could be placed in anyone and they wouldn't notice until Shiun herself acted and gave away the illusion, and even then, in the heat of the moment it might not have been obvious! And just what that illusion was? Simple.

Akihiko could no longer see Shiun channelling chakra. That's it. Nothing big or fancy but it had untold versatility and range of uses! Without the aid of seeing that blue glow, Akihiko wouldn't know if she was casting a ninjutsu or s genjutsu until it already happened, which in the formers case could catch him, or anyone else caught in this genjutsu, by surprise and let her get a tide turning blow in! Or, in the case of the latter, it would help to make sure that her illusions were that much more convincing and, hopefully, keep Akihiko or anyone else from using Kai for just that much longer. After all, if she wasn't channeling chakra in their eyes and she hadn't weaved any handseals, had she really used a jutsu on them? Were the things he was seeing or the things he was feeling an illusion, or actually real?

This was the sort of jutsu that really showed off what a prodigy Shiun was. She had absolutely zero doubts that someone had thought of and implemented this sort of illusion before so she really didn't think much of it, but, she also had zero ideas about just how useful this would actually be to her during her career as a wannabe kunoichi samurai! At the ripe old age of eleven she assumed that it was just a neat party trick that she could maybe pull off every now and again on unsuspecting rubes like Akihiko to help pull the wool over their eyes while she did some even more tricksy stuff right up until the moment that she revealed herself for the trickster she was and then, in her imagination, the entire charade would come undone! She didn't have the concept of patience or subtly that would come much longer after the fact, well beyond this single day of training and into the future.

For now? She was just gonna mess with the pink haired shinobi's head a little bit, see just how far she could push looking like she was doing nothing to an actual ninja before he inevitably noticed that she was, in fact, doing something! It probably wouldn't take very long at all, right? Yeah, Shiun still believed that an actual ninja, regardless of rank or experience, would easily recognize her tricks. That's what made them so cool! Well, one reason anyway.

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Ignorance is Bliss
C-Rank Illusion Genjutsu
The user performs the handseals and speaks. Anyone who hears the user is affected by this genjutsu. Amazingly simple yet dastardly effective, this genjutsu makes it so that those affected by it cannot see the user channeling chakra, the glow associated with such an action simply being impossible to see while under the influence of this genjutsu. This genjutsu lasts for 10 posts.

1010/1010

[Texas]

Akihiko stood at the training area with Shiun. Was he particulary happy that the area wasn't 100% clean... well the real answer is he truly didn't care. As a whole the pink haired loud mouth truly didn't care as long as it did what it was suppose to do... maybe that would be a future quality of the boy? Who knows at this point. Aki folded his arms and watched Shiun. Training? What kind of training would she expect? He wasn't privy to swinging a sword, in fact he liked to use ninja tools and rarely dabbled in larger weapons. Although, he has swung a wooden pole before.. maybe he could be a spearsmith or a pointy stick guy.

He watched on as she weaved a few hand signs. His chakra recognition wasn't that high, he could see some of her channeling kind of? Not really? But all and all when Shiun weaved a few hand signs and nothing happened, the child thought she was messing with him. "Ya know Shiun, I would like to train with you... but you don't have to be mean." Akihiko thought she was getting back at him for releasing a jutsu earlier that she couldn't see. I mean... she was being mean!

The boy of minor intelligence pouted and tightened his arms that were already folded. He should be in a place to practice his jutsu... oh wait! Maybe he could practice jutsu on Shiun herself... She would make a good... training target. As these thoughts swirled around the empty space otherwise referred to Aki's brain a poorly hidden anime smirk gripped the boy's face. In that moment, he started to focus on his chakra that was dormant within him. At this point his chakra and Ryeunso's chakra had been converged into one. The white yet gentle chakra would continue to be flowing throughout the boy and slowly exerting itself outwards. It was time he truly focused on dealing with not only allies, but enemies as well. A concept that found itself on different sides of the same coin. The child would allow his chakra to merge with the 1st layer of the limbo realm. In that moment he would start to have it centered around Shiun, but nothing would happen yet.

379/400
D-Rank Jutsu TBD

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Remote Shift
D-Rank
Prerequisit: shift
Edit when done, but will be able to remotely send someone to the limbo realm without a tag.

[Golnax]

Aha! Excellent! Alihiko's reaction was the perfect sign that he didn't know he'd been tricked into getting caught in a genjutsu like a rube! The purple headed Kinoko couldn't help but grin deviously, holding her hand up over her mouth and chittering at his reaction! Yeeeesss, that's right, Akihiko, Shiun was just making fun of you for the lack of a jutsu demonstration earlier! No need to think about it any deeper than that, you pink haired scamp...!

Now it was time to see if it had rey, really worked though! If she was right he wouldn't be able to see her channeling chakra and whoah hey what the heck was going on over there? Right before Shinu's eyes it looked like Akihiko was channeling chakra! Uh. Maybe? Shiun wasn't sure! Chakra wasn't usually white like that, in fact she only ever had known Iijutsu to maintain a different color of chakra from normal, so whatever Akihiko was doing (ohmygosh he's actually doing something!!) it was brand new to the samurai!

"Woah woah woah woah, what!?" Shiun asked as the chakra stretched out from Akihiko and covered her! She didn't know what to do! Didn't know what was happening! It felt... It... It felt... "What in the HECK are you doing, Aki?" Shiun demanded to know, slapping her hands to her hips and looking at the pink haired boy suspiciously. Shiun didn't know what was going on and he'd given her no warning as to why he was doing, which was rude! (Yes the hypocrisy was entirely lost on her).

In retaliation to this perceived slight (and remembering that she was supposed to be testing her own jutsu!) Shiun channeled her own chakra while she stood there looking cross - something which Akihiko wouldn't be able to see right now, and stacked yet another genjutsu on him! A genjutsu that didn't have any effect. Again. Well, no outward effect, anyway. What the Akibushi samurai had done was place her training buddy under a genjutsu that would extend the life of her previous genjutsu, which was t doing anything to him except blocking his ability to see her channel chakra. So really, it was much the same as before except now he would be under it's spell for substantially longer! But, oh man, could you imagine if she had made him sew some weird stuff, like that flying pig jutsu she performed once and then decided to never use again because it was dumb! Ah, man, she was having her composure shook just imagining how long she could keep him under some illusion that made him sew all red as blue or something... Hey wait a minute...

It felt like nothing. Nothing was happening. She was just covered in Alihiko's weird white chakra now. Bwah...?

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In Perpetuity
D-Rank Genjutsu
The user performs the handseals and targets an individual they have previously placed under a genjutsu that is within the user's Control in meters away from them. After performing this jutsu, a single genjutsu which the target has been put under will be extended by a number of posts equal to the user's Willpower/5, prolonging its effects on the target.

533/400

[Texas]

Aki was shocked she could see what was going on.. Maybe she had a better capability of sensory than he had predicted. This would be an issue in the future and probably something he should tackle. But hey, a boy and his dreams right? Although that thought process made no sense, Aki smirked as she was shocked to see his chakra swirling. The boy opened his hand and clenched it. The chakra would swallow her up and directly send her to the 1st Layer of the Limbo Realm. A remote shift would be important for future support aspects and the boy simply wanted to make sure he was the ultimate team player.

After a few moments of her within it, he would release the jutsu causing her to pop out back to the Present Realm. With the success of this jutsu, Aki wondered if he could do the same thing again, but completely shift her to the 2nd realm. The boy would look at her oddly when she came back. He giggled a bit and gazed upon her. At this point he didn't realize that the young lad couldn't see if she was channeling chakra or not. In fact, due to her weaving hand signs and virtually nothing happening, the child looked at her and decided to give some "advice". "You know Shiun if you want some Ninjutsu tips, could help you out. No need to ware yourself down with jutsu that don't work." A tease Aki simply couldn't help but give to his Ronin colleague.

Regardless of what she was going to do next or say, Akihiko felt that it was a great opportunity to try the jutsu again but change it! The boy once again focused his chakra on himself. The white and calming chakra would begin to form within his body. It only took a moment before it was protruding out naturally. Once the boy had felt as though he completed the proper amount of chakra, it was time to attempt the jutsu. Aki would send out his chakra towards Shiun again, if lucky enough it would ensnare her just like the last one.

With some luck, the boy would do the same thing he did last time. It was more for flair than anything else since it is at the end of the day activated through chakra. Instead, he decided to be more of a pest... if that was even possible. Aki would lift his right hand up and snap his finger. After the snap, if Shiun was ensnared would disappear yet again! This time she would be sent out to the 2nd layer of the limbo realm. This realm was very similar to the 1st Layer. If she was perceptive enough, she would notice that the white and the black was much bolder than the 1st layer. If she was to physically try to hit Aki, she would also notice that her physical attacks would go right through him.

Regardless of if Shiun was taken by the jutsu or not, the boy had a thought. A real, actual, thought. Strategy wise, it would make sense if he could join her as quickly as he could send her. With his previous training, he was able to create a way to send himself into the 1st layer just as he sent her. However, he had yet to adapt a way to send himself 2 layers ahead.. Hmmm

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Total Words 571
D-Rank - 379/400 + 21 = 400
C-Rank - 550/550

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1st Layer • Remote Shift
D-Rank Ninjutsu
Akihiko either channels his chakra or weaves a hand sign to ensnare someone or something with his chakra. Once the jutsu is complete, the ensnared target is shifted into the 1st layer of the limbo realm. They are trapped there until Akihiko either creates an exit, releases the jutsu, or runs out of chakra.

2nd Layer • Remote Shift 2nd Gear
C-Rank Ninjutsu
Akihiko either channels his chakra or weaves a hand sign to ensnare someone or something with his chakra. Once the jutsu is complete, the ensnared target is shifted into the 2nd layer of the limbo realm. They are trapped there until Akihiko either creates an exit, releases the jutsu, or runs out of chakra.

[Golnax]

Oh, NOW Akihiko wanted to show off his jutsu for her that they were alone together and training! With no warning as to what would happen she might add, because what came next was scary! Awesome, but scary! Aki's weird white chakra which had previously enveloped her sent her to a whole new world suddenly and without warning with a clench if the pink haired genin's fist! Suddenly everything was black and white! She looked down at herself and SHE was white! Like, paper white! What the heck!? Was this a genjutsu!?

A quick Kai performed by her with no change her surroundings proved that, no, this wasn't a genjutsu, which meant it was something much more frightening! A ninjutsu, one she had both no context nor no warning for! She didn't even know what exactly was going on and didn't have time to ask before the jutsu was over and she was back in reality!

"HEY! Shiun cried out, starting to march over to Aki to confront him about whatever he'd don't when - AH! - HE DID IT AGAIN! The chakra enveloping her stopped her in her tracks and with a snap of his fingers, bam, she was back in that world of black and white except now it was worse because something was off and she didn't know what it was. She couldn't feel anything, not even the air, and that constant omnipresent sensation suddenly being absent sent chills up her spine! Thankfully, just as quickly, she was back into the normal world. She glared at Akihiko and marched right up to him, cheeks puffed out, hands balled into fists!

"Akihikooooooo!" she yelled out at him as she got close, channeling chakra all the while invisibly. As she got within a couple of meters of the genin she'd spring her trap! POOF! Suddenly the two of them were in a thick cloud of fungal spores and Shiun both produced and jettisoned them out from her tenketsu and the fungal cap atop her head! While in the smog of fungal particulates Shiun would form a string of handseals and targets Aki with yet another genjutsu - this time one that would make it appear as though mushrooms were sprouting all over his body! Let's see how HE liked being assaulted with stuff without warning that had minor body horror implications!

Now being a Kinoko herself, the fungal spores didn't bother her that much - she knew to hold her breath while in the cloud which also helped - but Aki, who hadn't seen her channel any chakra, would undoubtedly be caught by surprise and subsequently it's be next to impossible for him to not get a whiff of her spores - and the second he dist, she'd have him! Smelling the spores would cause her genjutsu to activate and the illusion of copious amounts of mushrooms sprouting through his skin all over his body would commence! Doubtless, too, he would try and move out of the cloud or else cough himself into a fit like a normal person, so when he did she'd follow the sound of his foot steps out and emerge from the cloud right behind him.

"Akihiko! That was SO WEIRD and SO COOL and you will NEVER DO THAT AGAIN WITHOUT TELLING NE WHAT YOU'RE DOING FIRST OR I SWEAR I WILL TURN YOU INTO A MUSHROOM PERMANENTLY!" she yelled at him, her tone harsh like her words but somehow also giddy with excitement? "What did you even DO that was so weird!"

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~Lesser Spore Cloud
D-ranked Nintaijutsu
The user gathers chakra throughout their body before releasing a thick cloud of spores that cover an area equal to the user's [Control] stat in meters. Inhaling these spores is comparable to inhaling smoke or ash and can cause heavy, labored coughing to anyone caught within it unexpectedly. The cloud lasts for two posts or until cleared by some means such as a fuuton technique. These mushrooms and spores can be used for other jutsu.

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Fertile Flesh (Scent)
D-Rank Illusion Genjutsu
The user performs the handseals and targets an individual that is within the user's Control in meters of them which can smell either fungi or fungal spores. Smelling these scents activates the genjutsu. Upon activation, the target will see mushrooms sprouting out of their body all over rapidly. This genjutsu lasts for 3 posts.

731/400

[Texas]

Akihiko couldn't help but laugh as he snapped his finger twice to send her to the limbo and back. She was angry... no she was happy? No no no Akihiko was pretty sure she was angry. He giggled and giggled as Shiun briskly walked up to him all up in a tizzy. Sheeeeeshhhhh she wanted to see some ninjutsu right? What was her deal? As the mushroom capped samurai got closer Akihiko put his hands up to defend himself. Was she going to hit him? No..

To his surprise a thick cloud of spores covered the area. Releasing from her skin and into the atmosphere. The boy couldn't help but smell it, but not without a comment to possibly annoy her. "Ew Shiun, there's a bathroom for that." As he made the comment a mushroom started to appear on his foot. When he looked down to see if the spores were below him, he noticed it. "Shiun, you are leaking all over me stop this!" To the child's surprise the spores did in fact not stop. They kept popping up all over the boy's body. Gross, seriously yucky. What could Akihiko do? Maybe he should just pop out of there and try to clean up whatever this is.

The young delinquent jumped back in pure disgust. He would focus chakra around his body very similar to what he did to Shiun a couple minutes ago. It only took a moment before Aki had the proper chakra channeled and ready to go. Before he activated the jutsu he made his last comment to her before trying to clean it up. "Seriously Shiun, Ew" and snapped himself to the Limbo Realm. Since he used more chakra but in the same way as before. The boy was able to fully send himself to the 2nd Layer of the limbo realm. In that layer, everything was a little bit more quiet. He knew Shiun couldn't hear him. But the main issue at hand were the mushrooms growing all over him.

Aki tried to wipe it off, but it seemed like nothing was really happening. It took a little bit for him to do a desperate attempt of getting rid of it. The boy placed his hands together and released a Kai. This caused the Genjutsu to dissipate from his body. While standing there, the child didn't really like the way that cloud of farts smelt. So he ran over to the other side of the training grounds silently.

When he got there the boy, stopped running and turned around. Maybe now was a good time for him to come back. He wondered what the hell started all of this. Typically he would see chakra somewhere or something happen. All he saw were damn hand signs! It made no sense!! Where did these come from. The boy released the chakra holding him in the second layer and he would appear kind of far from Shiun. Aki would place both hands around his mouth to make his voice travel farther, although it really wasn't necessary. "SHIUN! WHY DID YOU FART AND HOW DID YOU DO THAT!?" With enough of a voice, the child was actually hopeful that he could understand better how this was done. The only thing he understood at this point was that his kai worked... which meant it was some form of Genjutsu?

564/500

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2nd Layer • Shift 2nd Gear
C-Rank Ninjutsu
Akihiko either channels his chakra or weaves a hand sign to engulf himself with chakra ripped from the limbo realm. Once the jutsu is complete, Akihiko can skip the 1st layer and shift into the 2nd layer of the limbo realm. He can leave the 2nd layer by creating an exit, releasing the jutsu, or run out of chakra.

[Golnax]

FART!?

Oh, that was it! She was ABSOLUTELY making him a mushroom now! She knew that fungal spores could smell strongly to people but calling them a fart was just plain rude! Shiun whipped her head around to where Akihiko had reappeared onto the training ground after just up and vanishing - no smoke, no substitution. He just straight up blipped out of existence for a second there for all the Kinoko knew which was substantially weirder than making mushrooms grow out of stuff in her opinion!

"Uh-uh! Don't you change the subject!" Shiun barked back sassily, marching her way back over towards Aki and getting right in his face, one hand planted in her hip while the other whipped up and stuck a finger right up against the tip of his nose. "First your chakra goes white which is cool and weird because I didn't know that was possible, then you make me see everything in black and white some how and that wasn't a genjutsu I checked! Then you just up and vanish like you weren't even there to begin with and show up way over here!?"

Every few words she was pushing her finger forward, aggressively but softly smoothing Aki's nose upwards as she tore into him/admiring the hell out of him. "Where was all this cool ninja stuff when Suzuko was around! She's never gonna believe me that you were doing all this stuff! My thing was just a use of my Kekkei Genkai! What's yours!? Do you got a Kekkei Genkai too!?" she demanded to know and as she was poking him during this second round of questioning she was also channeling chakra (still under the impression he couldn't see it because she hadn't seen him perform a kai!) and, because they were touching, the pink haired troublemaker who was actually a lot cooler than his dumb personality would let on would once again fall under the illusion of mushrooms sprouting all over his body! Again! That's right, the same genjutsu with a different initiator! Wild!

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Fertile Flesh (Touch)
D-Rank Illusion Genjutsu
The user performs the handseals and targets an individual that is within the user's Control in meters of them which has made contact with fungus spores. Touching these spores activates the genjutsu. Upon activation, the target will see mushrooms sprouting out of their body all over rapidly. This genjutsu lasts for 3 posts.

409/400

[Texas]

Oh look, there's Shiun! She looks so happy? Wait is that anger? No wait is that excitement? Akihiko couldn't figure out her emotional state since her facial expressions were too confusing for the child to comprehend. Was this a moment they were going to have? Because of this, the child really didn't move. In fact, he was so perplexed by the situations, that Aki simply watched on as Shiun swung her big meaty claws and stuffed them in this nose. The pain was not as bad as he thought, but the optics made the boy quite uncomfortable.

"Shiun Shiun! I don't know what is going on here bu---" Before the loud mouth shinobi could finish speaking, god damn mushrooms rushed up and all over his entire body. WHAT WAS GOING ON. The boy didn't know what to do, he was away from her stinky fart so how could she be able to put mushrooms all over his body. Were they even real?? The last ones weren't but it could be a trick.

The child grabbed shiun's hand and ripped her fingies from his nose. With a pushing of the hands back, the child would clench his glutes, arch his knees, and push backwards to gain some space from the vengeful mushroom.

At this point in Akihiko's short life, he had felt that Him, Shiun, and Suzuko could trust each other. I mean, Shiun was literally using her mushroom clan jutsu against Akihiko, so at this point, the boy couldn't help but train his Kekkei Genkei. First the boy had made the assumption that this could be a genjutsu like the last one. So with a quick hand sign, the child utilized the Kai technique to release the genjutsu. Good lord was that scary. After creating some space, the boy wanted to make her hesitate. Who knows, maybe her next attack would be a ninjutsu.

With that though process, the child channeled his chakra yet again. Still white chakra would softly protrude from his body. Still giving off a warm and comforting feeling, while the pink haired child focused his chakra to his hands. This chakra would morph around both hands and change from a white color to a black color. The changing in colors meant that at least Akihiko was doing it right. The chakra would mold into black gauntlets with black chakra steaming from it. The gauntlets were a clan technique that Aki had trained with a couple of members within the Ishiguro Clan. There were a few pinacle techniques that the pre-teen wanted to learn before truly going off the beaten path and attempting to create his own versions of well known Clan Jutsu.

The Denjiton focused gauntlets were a great asset in protecting not only himself, but protecting others as well. The child decided to egg on Shiun with a soft taunting. There was something about taunting Shiun that gave Akihiko great pleasure. It was very similar to Suzuko, except when it came to messing with them he had to pick his choice of death. On the one hand, Shiun would use her mushrooms to comatose the boy if he was lucky. It would most likely be death by a thousand mushrooms and potential poisons of pain that followed. With Suzuko she would cut him down, have her bag eat him, or punch him flat with her mech. Both choices seemed.... not ideal.

"Hey Shiun, try that crap again and see what will happen! No disappearing this time!"

583/550

Jutsu LearnedShow

*Denjiton • Denjiton Gauntlets
C-rank Ninjutsu
The user does a series of hand seals, creating gauntlets of denjiton chakra around their hands and forearms. The user can use their arms as shields, reducing the effect of jutsu they come in contact with (through the gauntlets) by [control/5]. This allows them to lessen the burns from katon jutsu, or easier to break out of suiton jutsu that capture them.

[Golnax]

"HEY!" Shiun yelled as Aki jumped back and performed a kai to get out of her genjutsu again! Which meant he'd kai'd at least once which meant - "You're NOT supposed to use Kai, you jerk!" she said, pointing an accusing finger at him. "You're SUPPOSED to tell me what you did just now!!"

Oh, and now there was BLACK CHAKRA!? Not just one abnormal color but two!? What was Aki even doing other than dodging the question!! Shiun was really getting frustrated with the boy! This was textbook cool ninja shit and it was awesome to look at but she had just enough knowledge on the subject to become severely annoyed at not knowing what was happening right before her eyes! Oh, and he did NOT just threaten her!

Now she got why Suzuko acted so cold around him - Akihiko was a brat! He'd rather throw hands rather than answer questions! Well fine! If that's how he wanted to do it! Shiun turned and sprinted over towards the pink haired Shinobi, throwing her right hand out to the side and sending the requires chakra into Musu to transform it from a ring on her finger to the orange golden spear with a red flag attached that it actually was! To Akihiko this would probably look like yet another strick as, from his perspective, unless he was very observant, it would look like the spear had just appeared in her hands while she was running towards him!

And she was fast, too! Faster than the ninja was! As she got within a couple of meters of him Shiun raised Musu up over her head like it was a baseball bat, holding the shaft low towards the weighted pommel and channeled some chakra into it, the weapon flashing with a blue glow for a moment before she felt out a frustrated cry and brought the spear swinging down towards Aki, intent on giving him a right proper bonk on the head or at the very least his arms if he chose to block with them!

If she succeeded, the Kinoko would raise her spear back up and bring it back down again! And again! And again! Crying out, "Just answer the questions, Akihiko! What I'm the HECK do you keep DOING!?" Each strike, if they landed, would find Aki growing heavier and heavier, his body weight increasing thanks to the effects of her Kinton ninjutsu! If he was going to pull out some BS without any sort of explanation, then by golly, she was too!

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Kinton • Bow Your Head
C-Rank Ninjutsu
Prerequisite: A weapon of some sort
The user performs the handseals or channels kinton chakra into a weapon that they are in contact with. For the next five posts, whenever the user or anyone wielding the weapon in question would strike a person or object, said strike applies the Kinton passive to the individual or object in question, exponentially increasing their weight for each strike applied. The amount of Speed reduced/Strength required to lift the object is equal to the amount of [Control] that was put into this jutsu.

523/400

[Texas]

Akihiko, like Shiun, was a bottled case of emotions. Unlike Shiun, he was more confused than emotional. The basket case was yelling at him trying to understand what he was doing. This caused the child to laugh at the purple, mushroom headed girl. "Shiun! I can't tell you all of my secrets, how about you tell me about your stink farts and why they caused me to break out in mushrooms!" Although for both of them the answers were clear of what was going on... well maybe not really. The thought process would take breaking down techniques and understanding it. Maybe at their level they weren't experienced enough to do that fully mid battle.

Before Akihiko could fully prepare, he gazed upon the Kinoko as she exploded forward. She was going right for him! Wait... Akihiko saw her ring pop out a full length staff with a point at the end? The child had only witnessed someone use this kind of weapon only a hand full of times and usually it was for training. He had never been a part of actual combat with this type of item. The child had enough time to back away, but what was the point with Denjiton gauntlets? At this point he wanted to see what would happen if he blocked with it. To Aki's surprise, following the lifting of the spear chakra ensnared around it. The child wanted to see if his gauntlets would actually protect him. With haste, the boy put his arms up that were leaking black chakra throughout. When the blade hit his armored arms, she would pull it back naturally as most strikes would follow a defensive or secondary offensive counter.

When the staff was lifted from his gauntlet there would be a physical detachment as a result. The black would goop to her blade and fall back to his "gauntlets" as if she had dipped it in syrup. Akihiko could feel the effects slightly, but based on the ability the gauntlets granted, the boy could also feel less could less chakra hitting him. Wait a second... there was chakra attached to this spear?? How did she do that without the pink haired child actually seeing it? After the strike, Aki would rip his arms up in an attempt to reinforce her spear going back up.

With that push off, he would utilize the leverage in his slightly bent legs and push himself backwards. All while weaving a couple of hand signs. The true thing that perplexed Akihiko was the lack of visual chakra. It was clear after the strike that his gauntlets reduced the effect of something. Was this another genjutsu? Not it couldn't have been, his gauntlets wouldn't have been able to do such a thing. The thoughts spiraled over Aki's brain, but he had decided to utilize a technique to cancel her spear out.

The child focused his chakra yet again and after completing the hand seals put his hands out forward. More black chakra would pulse forward in the direction of Shiun at his full speed. If this technique struck her and her spear, it would nullify the ninjutsu on it completely. The child would continue to run backwards as he released the jutsu. For right now, he wanted to keep space between the two. This was a little scrimmage after all and the boy, like Shiun, found it to be a good opportunity to try some tricks!



574/550

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*Denjiton • Cancel
C-rank Ninjutsu
The user does a series of hand seals, and sends forth a pulse of denjiton chakra from their hands that travels at [control] Speed at a range of 15 meters. Any jutsu caught in the denjiton pulse will be assaulted by Denjiton chakra with [control] Strength.

[Golnax]

"I already told you it was my Kekkei Genkai! Why don't you try LISTENING for a change!?" Shiun yelled in frustration, pulling her spear back and swiping it from left to right in a wide arch as Akihiko jumped back. He'd blocked her blows and pushed her spear back and that was fine. It wasn't like she was trying to hurt him in the first place and with the amount of control she had over her chakra the effects would have been fairly minor even if he didn't have some sort of special chakra that negated ninjutsu which she absolutely knew nothing about!

As Akihiko weaved hand seals she was preparing to give chase but stopped in her tracks when that wave of black chakra came her way! Oh crap. She didn't know what that stuff did. Ooooooh, no, what was she going to do!? Fear and panic instantly sat in, locking up her limbs as inexperience and indecision took their toll. Oh this was totally not good! What was she going to do!?

It was a good thing for her that she was a bone fide prodigy! Acting on panic more than any sort of actual planning, but masking it well with a serious, stoic expression, Shiun channeled her chakra as though to perform a jutsu! But what was she doing!? She was just standing there! The wave was getting closer, her body glowed blue! Whatever she was going to do she needed to do it now before -

Impact! The wave of black chakra hit and washed over Shiun! She fell backwards from the impact, swept off her feet from the force of Alihiko's jutsu! A direct hit! Shiun was on her way to the ground and -

Ka-ching!

Shiun burst into a shower of ryo coins! Like, an actual shower of them. Every direction for ten meters all around where she had been were pelted with coins that gleamed brilliantly in the sun, clinked and jangled off of each other and all around made for a sudden, shiny distraction! A special substitute jutsu created by Shiun basically right there on the spot! New and quite literally shiny, the equally inexperienced Akihiko would surely be transfixed by the display right up until -

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAWH!!!"

Shiun's cry of battle came directly behind the pink haired boy! She'd used the distraction of her shower of gold to sprint around and get behind him as fast as she could! And now that she was there she lifted up a leg and delivered a spartan kick aimed right for Aki's back! If it connected it would surely be enough to knock him over onto his front, at which point Shiun would stand over top of him and use the pommel of her spear to pelt the obstinate boy in the back between the shoulders crying out, "You! Are! Being! Extremely! Dishonorable!"

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Kinton • Flashy Exit
C-Rank Ninjutsu
Prerequisite: *[Basic Jutsu • Change of Body Stance Technique]
A variation on the *[Basic Jutsu • Change of Body Stance Technique], the user performs the handseals and replaces their body with a mass of ryo coins roughly the same size as their body which take a blow for them. Upon receiving said blow the coins will scatter in a large burst, covering a 10 meter area in a shiny, distracting manner, allowing the user ample time to make an escape, reposition themselves or otherwise hide as they see fit. This jutsu may only be used a total of one time in a single thread, give or take how many times Shunshin no Jutsu has already been used.

693/400

[Texas]

More confusion struck the boy.. what the heck was going on. Akihiko watched as his chakra flowed towards Shiun. To his surprise, money flopped up in the air! OH MY MONEY. Akihiko got excited, however this was just another trick that Shiun had up her sleeve. The child rapidly weaved a single hand sign and released Kai again. However, nothing happened... and this made things worse for the poorly functioning delinquent. What could he have possibly done wrong? Was his chakra wrong? Was his technique wrong?

Out of frustration Akihiko would yell. "Shiun, this illusion isn't going aw---" Before he could finish his sentence he heard a battle cry. It was a war cry, a warning, a declaration of love? No not that. The once menacing smirk quickly took a 180 as Akihiko could feel a foot lodge into his back. This caused him to fly forward recklessly. Aki was surely out of his league for weapon combat, it showed as well. An important lesson for the future to learn to evade these kind of attacks and potentially redirect...

His brain processed the face down ass up position he was left in, but before he could truly react another strike to his back took place. With Aki's back being treated like it was going to turn to dough, the boy felt a sharp sting. This naturally caused a flex in his back and an arch. With that he rolled around and popped up awkwardly but fast. "Sheesh Shiun, you went a little overboard don't ya think? You could have killed me!" The boy would try to reach his back but because it was nicely in the middle, the child looked like an absolute bafoon. He decided while looking like an ape that he would tell her too. "The black chakra you saw was my Kekkei as well. Maybe if you're nicer to me in the future I'll tell you a little bit more." The child purposly left out the info regarding the white chakra he was producing. Maybe that was enough to distract her and make her think otherwise...

352/?

[Golnax]

There! Was that so hard! Jeez! It wasn't like she was asking him to hand over a village scroll or anything, gods! As he complained and over exaggerated she narrowed her eyes. Dummy! It wasn't even the sharp end she was poking him with! In retaliation of this lack of perception she raised her spear up and thumped it back down on him several times as if she were using it as a substitute for her foot!

"You! Were! Mean! First!" she said with each thump before removing her spear from him and stepping away with a huff! She retracted her spear back into a ring and then clasped her hands together into a quick series of seals. Oh, he wanted mean? She'd show him mean!

"You know it's not my fault that you don't listen to other people when they ask you stuff! I was just so excited about you doing some cool ninja stuff that I just had to know what you were up to and so I, jealous as I was, showed you some cool stuff in return so that you'd be forthwith! Yeah, that's right, I know I'm amazing!" she lied, turning around and pointing at Akihiko. She absolutely did not believe she was amazing nor had she done what she'd done in an attempt to get him to spill the beans, but hey, a boast was a boast and that's what was important right this second.

Because she had just cast another genjutsu! Now this one was a bit trickier really. If she'd done it right and Akihiko heard her boast about how great she was, she would be, effectively, invisible to the boy while he saw a double of her a couple of meters to her left that, by all right, was almost a mirror image. The illusion would do just as she did and she was still talking to him so it would look like she was speaking - in fact with her being so close any sound she made could easily be mistaken as coming s little bit over to the side of its true origin. Thus was the true nature of the genjutsu revealed - and made tricky to operate! She was going to have to move and act as though she were where her double was in order to keep it convincing. Honestly she wasn't sure if she could pull it off, her doubt for herself filling her up like it normally dos, but hey - practice made perfect, right?

"So what about the white chakra, hm!? What's that all about?" she demanded to know, placing her hands on her hips and looking... Slightly off to the right, that way her illusion would more look like it was looking at him head on. Wow, this was already complicated!

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Slightly Left of Center
D-Rank Illusion Genjutsu
The user performs the handseals and makes a boast about how skilled they are, something to the effect of "I'm so great" or "you can't touch me". Anyone who hears this boast will be caught in the genjutsu. Once initiated, this genjutsu creates the illusion of the user being one meter to the left of their actual position while the user themselves are, effectively, invisible. This genjutsu lasts for 3 posts.

548/400

[Texas]

The pink haired loud mouth was in a state of confusion. Was... Shiun.... hitting on Akihiko? No, the boy had already been down this path, she was most definitely just grilling him. She was basically asking for village secrets! how could he react properly? Should he ignore her and run away? Or should he actually be a good friend and tell her everything...

Maybe the child could get the best of both worlds, nothing wrong with a little lie here and there to protect his village. Well, mainly to protect him. The child watched over to the side, his left side to be exact, to talk to Shiun in a proper manner. The genin puffed his chest slightly and attempted to look taller, maybe give the illusion he was an adult. This was all with the preface that being an adult meant that he was mature. Little did he know, there were a lot of adults out there that were rather mature. A secret in his own right that Aki should not find out... if he knew he didn't have to be mature when he got older... well who knows what would really happen.

Akihiko kept eye contact with Shiun who was in a slightly different spot to his left. He adjusted his position in order to talk to her. "Well Shiun, in truth my chakra in general is white. That's just the way it is... I don't know why it is that way though." A clear lie, one he wanted to make sure stayed to sound like truth.

With stealth and assassination training, Aki had been learning to coat lies with truths to mix it up for people who had a knack for reading lies. So the child continued speaking. The goal was to input some truth while, at the same time, boasting up his newfound friend. "Shiun, I am trying to keep up with you Heart Samurai! You guys can be scary, especially" it was at this point Akihiko's devilish nature combined with his Genma's influence uncontiously kicked in, to the point where he didn't even realize it "your kekkei genkai farts. I didn't realize how dangerous a poot could be!" So close... yet so far.




352 + 24 + 33 + 14 + 64 = 487 + 371 = 858/900

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Limbo • Cone of Defense
B-Rank Ninjutsu
After performing the proper hand signs or channeling chakra, Aki will create a dome of the 1st layer and 2nd layer around his person. This double layered cone stands up to a 15m radius around his body. The first layer does almost nothing but coats the inorganic items in his chakra, then as it passes through the 2nd layer it enters the 2nd layer of the limbo realm. This causes the inorganic items to pass through organics and seemingly disappear before they reach Akihiko to an opponents eyes.

[Golnax]

His chakra was just... Like that? What, he had a Kekkei Genkai that made his chakra black when used but then also his chakra was just naturally white? Did he expect her to believe that? A genin, with two toned chakra, in this village, localized entirely in this pink haired ninja brat!?

Well lucky guess for him because she absolutely ate that up and thought it was the coolest thing every! Her horizons seemed to expand before her, wondering if different chakra colors were more common than the samurai of Heart realized, did they have special traits about them that distinguished them from normal blue chakra? Was it just a biological quirk that had to do with his Tenketsu? So many questions and curiosities that set her eyes a sparkling with possibilities!

And then he had to go and just... Ruin it all by calling her Kekkei Genkai a fart. Again! Glaring, Shiun threw himer arms down to her sides and yelled at the top of her voice, "MY KEKKEI GENKAI IS NOT FARTS! IT'S MUSHROOMS YOU JERK!" Man, if this was what it was like to spend extended periods of time with Akihiko it was no wonder Suzuko was so cold towards the guy! It's like it didn't have a polite bone in his body!

For his transgressions, Shiun would channel her chakra again, raise s finger at the pink haired Shinobi and say, "You'd better WATCH OUT or else I really WILL turn you into a mushroom! You'll just be a big shittake and there'll be nothing you can do about it!" she warned, and in the heat of the moment now that her genjutsu was cast... She couldn't actually think of anything to make the boy see that would help solidify her point! She could have made him sew his hand turning into a mushroom she guessed, but like, at this point she was too irritated to really give it much thought so instead she just changed the color of the decorative rings in her hair from silver to gold to match the one on her finger. A change so small he literally wouldn't be able to notice it even if he kai'd his way out of this one.

That all said and done, Shiun turned her back on Akihiko and crossed her arms over her chest. "I'm gonna go find Suzuko and cool off! Samurai aren't supposed to lose their tempers like this!" she huffed and turned to stomp away. Stupid Akihiko and his dumb obstinance!

Jutsu TrainedShow

Prestidigitation
D-Rank Illusion Genjutsu
The user performs the handseals and says "watch out". Anyone who hears this phrase will be caught in the genjutsu. Once initiated, this genjutsu lets the user make small visual changes to people or objects, such as changing colors, a container appearing to be open, small wounds being closed, etc. This genjutsu lasts for 3 posts.

424/400

[Texas]

Akihiko could feel the frustration and annoyance in Shiun's tone. Oh no, wait Aki can't afford to have both Shiun and Suzuko to be mad at him! He wouldn't notice since his main focus was Shiun's mushroom head. With emotions running high, Aki ran after Shiun. "SHIUN SHIUN I'm SORRY!"

858+51 = 909/900

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