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41 (appears 17) :AgeFemale :Gender 6 ft. 0 in. :Height 180 lbs :Weight Physical Features :Face/Head Hana’s skin a touch towards dark, much like others of her clan, and her hair a vibrant red though her eyes are a light yellow. Her nose is a bit wide and freckles decorate her face across the bridge of her nose. :Body Her body is curvy, though her muscles are well defined. As a hunter her body has been worked nonstop and her skin is a bit bronzed from the kiss of the sun on her hunts. :Notable Features She has several tattoos, most of them pale on her skin rather than darker, and all of them are various kinds of markings to show her ties to nature. All of her markings are symbols of fire, or earth, from various types of mother earth worship due to her fascination with such things. :Clothing/Accessories Her clothing is simple, a pair of dark brown pants and a pale tan shirt that is sleeveless, but over this she wears a jacket lined in wolf fur and a large hood to keep her warm in Iwa’s climate. Her clan symbol is on the back of it. However, on mission the woman may choose to dress a little differently. She may wear a dark cloak and half mask that covers her nose and below, mostly to hide her identity or as a sign of shame that she looks so young. On missions where she knows she may encounter danger her clothing is more akin to a dark robe, something she can cast away quickly should she choose to use her final Youton Jutsu that would otherwise burn away her clothing. Personality :General Hana is, for the most part, a generally happy individual, content with her life and where she is at in it. She can be very protective of those around her, most especially of those she considers family with includes those she has trained in the past, missioned with, or otherwise. :Hopes/Dreams Hana’s only hope is to protect her family from harm, and to continue to build up her own strength as well as that of her village. :Fears Hana fears her own inhumanity. Having an elemental body is something she never wanted, and is exactly what her nindo is all about, her desire to go back and “be herself” again. :Combat Mentality Hana is like a wolf on the hunt. She focuses on her target, analyzes them as much as she can before a fight, and takes them down in whatever method she deems the quickest.[/right] |
Village: Iwagakure No SatoRank: Jounin Stats: (0/50)
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Enkouten Hana was born a bright and cheerful child. The youngest of two, her father was a miner and her mother was a shinobi. Her father would return home from his work every day covered head to toe in dirt, soot, and other forms of filth as a result of mining all day long. Yet her mother was more involved in life as a shinobi, showing her two children the wonders of ninjutsu and the manipulation of her bloodline element, Youton. Hana grew up being absolutely fascinated by this, watching her mother create figurines that would move before her very eyes, but only for a time. Eventually it would melt but she would watch excitedly as her mother would use the same Youton to create something new. As seems to hold true for so many, it was this childhood fascination that would later lead to Hana’s chosen path as a shinobi. She had always been so enthralled with her mother’s Youton, that the moment she was old enough, she begged to learn how to use it, and begged to be sent to the academy.Though her father hesitated, not wanting to see his child sent into a dangerous life, it was her mother who won out in the end, insisting that the Youton was not a choice, but a birthright and so Hana was sent to the academy and even spent days training with her mother in the use of this element. The girl was absolutely dedicated to it and the study of Ninjutsu, graduating at the top of her class, at least in the arts of Ninjutsu. Though she always did well in the others, she never did dedicate quite as much time to them as she did the Ninjutsu.
Enkouten Hana went into her Genin years with her head held high, determined to prove herself to those around her, but most importantly she was so proud of her own bloodline, she was determined to prove it was superior. The girl was more than a little bit of a handful to her own sensei, especially when she realized one of her teammates was a clanless. As those days began, Hana was merciless. She teased the boy at a constant about his “inferiority”. But the boy remained silent, taking her mocking in stride and most days seemed to pretend it wasn’t even happening. No matter how loud Hana got, or how close to him she got. It wasn’t until she decided to take a shot at him that she learned a hard lesson. She thought it would be funny one day to throw a small bit of Lava at her teammates head as they trained, and he had his back to her.
Before her sensei reacted, the boy did, and before Hana realized what was happening she was on her back in the dirt, a blade touching her neck. For several moments there was only silence, before she heard her sensei instruct the boy to step back, and reminded Hana that Ninjutsu was not the only path to strength. It was a hard lesson, Hana feeling humiliated and later even trying to hit the boy with a closed fist when they were alone. But it was a lesson that she did indeed learn, especially in that moment when she tried to hit him, and he let her. Even as he asked her if it really made her feel any better to hit him, she felt the truth finally come to mind. He had his own strength, and it was different than hers. But not only that, he was her teammate, and she had to trust him. Not just had to, but she could trust him. Though it took time, Hana came to trust that boy, Kenta, with her life, and the pair became as close as they could be.
Hana and Kenta of course were together when the time came for their exam. The pair had trained so much together that they seemed to almost perfectly work around one another’s strengths. Kenta had his blades, being more of a swordsman than anything, and of course Hana had her Youton. While she was able to fire her techniques at their opponent, Kenta seemed able to dance around them to still get in close and do his own damage. The pair passed their exam, perhaps not with flying colors, but certainly with grins plastered on both of their faces.
And though their celebrations afterwards led to the first time the pair would finally kiss, it would later lead to a bitter end. On their first mission together as chunin the pair were sent after a group of bandits, and though Hana got out alive, Kenta was not so lucky. The boy was badly hurt in the fight, their enemies having a greater number than originally anticipated. Hana used one of her more powerful techniques (at the time) to drag the men into a pit of Lava for what they did to her first love, but it was still all too late. Hana returned home with her lover barely breathing, and that night he breathed his last in the hospital with her beside him.
The girl fell into a depression for a time, understandably, and even debated quitting as a shinobi. Yet, through the combined wisdom of both her mother, and her own former sensei, she was assigned a team of her very own to guide through the rank of Genin.
Hana wanted nothing to do with the team. She was in a foul mood the day she met them, and her Sensei had forced her to go anyway, convincing her how much harder it would be on them if their sensei didn’t show and guilting her into taking on the task anyway. The girl was more than a bit surprised by the group she was presented with. There was a boy from her own clan, another who was a slave, and one from a prominent family of swordsmen. But the part that really made her hate her own Sensei for a moment was as the introductions came, and the last boy introduced himself. Ken’ichi. Ken. It was close enough to Kenta that the girl visibly froze for a moment. She wanted to scream, she wanted to hit her Sensei, she even had a moment where she wanted to hit the boy.
It didn’t take her long to realize her own Sensei had done this intentionally, and Hana realized she would have to find her own way to set her mind to the task before her. She had three lives, three minds, in front of her that needed teaching and their first introduction hadn’t gone well. If anything the boy whose name had made him stick out to her so much, he was the simplest of them all. He seemed ready and willing to learn, and her kin seemed the worst. An Enkouten who believed in bloodline over all… that seemed all too familiar to her. Familiar enough she almost laughed, before of course he tried to insult the boy who was a slave again… and she promptly smacked him in the back of the head hard enough to knock him down.
Hana quickly found herself to be a no-nonsense kind of Sensei. She was hard on her team, pushing them harder every day, but it seemed to work. The three not only got to know one another, they became a unit that could actually fight side by side. Strengths and weaknesses fit together like puzzle pieces, and the day they reached Chunin Hana was proud.
They wouldn’t be her last team either. Over time Hana would find herself loving the idea of teaching others. She worked with teams from time to time, and in between teams she taught at the academy. Before long Kenta was a beloved memory, one she used to fuel her way forward and even her smiles as she taught the younger minds.
And yet eventually even Hana stepped away from training and back into taking regular missions. She had a desire to reach Jounin, and the woman began training herself incessantly once more to get where she wanted. She temporarily lost contact with many of her students during this time, only gaining contact again when she felt ready to take missions once more. She set her task on patrolling the borders of the village, and even watching for criminals in the area. It was on one such mission that she was badly wounded, and nearly found herself face to face with a wolf. She was hurt bad enough that she knew she couldn’t best the beast, chakra drained, the woman was exhausted, but even as she passed out from her wounds someone stepped into her view.
It would be days in the hospital healing before she found out the man had been a hunter, and of her own clan no less. The man had actually been the master of that wolf it turned out, and the wolf had led him to help her. Naturally when she was better healed, Hana sought the man out for thanks, and a partnership. The two began running missions together, sometimes hunting near home, and sometimes going away from the village. He outranked her for awhile, it wasn’t until the capture of an A Rank MN, that they brought down and back to the village together, that she was promoted to Jounin.
By then the woman was twenty, and she had found her second love. She and her fellow Enkouten fell into one another, and one day were married. Less than a year later they welcomed their first child into the world. It was a girl they chose to name Akane. From there life seemed almost a dream. Hana once more stepped away from the mission taking lifestyle, without fully retiring, spending time with her growing family and raising her children as their number soon rose to four. Her life seemed happy, and it finally seemed perfect.
Yet still a day came when bad news came. Her husband had been killed on a mission, and Hana felt that familiar depression pulling away at her. She tried to throw herself back into the life of a shinobi, her daughter Akane helping her pay the bills as she became old enough to become a shinobi herself. Yet there was a day when Hana took a mission outside the village to hunt a missing, one that should have taken a week at the most. But she did not return home.
In fact the woman was gone for well over a year. Captured, tortured, she was not regularly fed except for just enough to keep her alive, keeping her too weak to use chakra. The very missing ninja she had been sent to hunt had taken her, and kept her under fuuin to restrict her chakra use until she was weak enough that didn’t seem necessary. Yet day after day all hana could think about was her family, and in her weakened state she knew she couldn’t escape, yet still she tried. It took months of using her own blood to draw on the cells of her wall, having so little strength and so little chakra available for fuuinjutsu. Yet one day her captors began the day hearing a terrible scream, and running into her room to find lava spread across the floor, a strange orb floating in the middle.
They thought she was gone, perhaps even dead, but as they searched their own compound for her that puddle came together to form the woman herself… having taken her months of torture and solitude to prepare something dangerous that could have killed her. She changed her body, and now she had the strength needed to escape.
And yet upon her return she found her husband was not the only one gone. Her children were dead, killed in a fire, except for Akane who had apparently suffered a worse fate. She had fallen into a depression of her own and gone after a missing ninja that she couldn’t possibly defeat… and Hana found out she had actually joined the man.
Hana is finally home, but left feeling as if everything she has fought for is gone, and even worse she feels that her ‘change’ has left her less than human.
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| First Ability | Enkouten: |
| Second Ability | In an act of both desperation and thorough planning, Enkouten Hana has been able to apply her clan’s element to her own body, turning it into something entirely different. Her entire body is made up of the element Youton though most of the time she still appears entirely like herself. Her most vulnerable point now is her core. This core is the size of a human heart, made up almost entirely of lava that seems to move continuously over it, at its center is a small shell of obsidian, holding within it the last remaining amount of actual blood that Hana has, roughly four ounces worth. This core does not normally rest at the standard position a heart does, but instead is usually found in her left leg, the upper part of the thigh just below the hip joint. As an unplanned side-effect of this, Hana does not age and typically does not appear to be older than seventeen. |
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Ninjutsu Specialist:Having devoted their lives to mastering the arts of Ninjutsu, this shinobi is classified as a Ninjutsu Specialist. Ninjutsu specialist are able to devote a total of 10 concentrations to Ninjutsu, unlike most people who are capped at 8. However, they are only able to devote a max of 5 concentrations to Taijutsu, and a max of 5 concentrations to Genjutsu.
As a Ninjutsu Specialist, Hana is able to utilize Ninjutsu concentrations reserved for specialists, and is able to enter the God Tier [45+] on select stats, and meaning as a specialist they can select stats to break into the God tier. These stats can only be Ninjutsu, Speed, Control and Stamina.
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| Ninjutsu | Storage & Force Fuuinjutsu This user is able to utilize Storage Fuuinjutsu and Force Fuuinjutsu, making it possible for them to utilize any jutsu with the Storage or Force Classification. Storage Fuuinjutsu can be used to store supplies, weapons, armor, or anything in between. Force Fuuinjutsu are used to release, counteract, and capture energy. Charge Fuuinjutsu This user is able to utilize Charge Fuuinjutsu, making it possible for them to utilize any jutsu with the Charge Classification. Charge Fuuinjutsu are used to create jutsu like effects out of seals. |
| Taijutsu | Upper Body The fundamental skill of the [Upper Body] indicates the user’s proficiency with using their arms, chest and head in various ways to facilitate their use of related Taijutsu. Projectile Weapons The fundamental skill of [Projectile Weapons] indicates the user’s proficiency with weapons designed to attack from afar, such as bows, shuriken, senbon, launchers and the like. This facilitates their use of related Taijutsu. Sword Weapons The fundamental skill of [Sword Weapons] indicates the user’s proficiency with swords and sword-like weapons such as knives, daggers, sword-breakers and the like. This facilitates their use of related Taijutsu. |
| Genjutsu | [Place them here] |
Youton Affinity :: NinjutsuShow
D Rank:*Youton • Minor Lava Bomb
D-rank Ninjutsu
After performing a string of handseals, the user will form a sphere of lava the size of a tennis ball in one hand. The sphere can be thrown and explodes on impact, with a blast radius of 1x1x1m and a strength of 5. This jutsu causes 1st degree burns. The lava hardens over the span of 3 posts, reducing the strength of impacted objects by 1 strength per post.
*Youton • Geyser
D-rank Ninjutsu
After performing a string of handseals, the user thrusts their hands upwards, focusing chakra on any point of earth within 5m of their body. A geyser of lava 5ft high and 2ft wide bursts from the ground with a speed of 1 and an impact strength of 9. The fountain spews lava for 2 posts, spraying bits of lava 1m out in all directions. This jutsu causes 1st degree burns. The lava hardens over the span of 3 posts, reducing the strength of impacted objects by 2 strength per post.
*Youton • Puddle
D-rank Ninjutsu
After performing a string of handseals, the user focuses on a 2x2m area within 10m of their body. Lava then forms on the ground over the area. This jutsu causes 1st degree burns. The lava hardens over the span of 3 posts, reducing the strength of objects by 1 strength per post.
Youton • Reseat
D-rank Ninjutsu
Focusing at the point of her core, Hana is able to move the core through her elemental body to another location within it, moving the core at a speed of 5.
Youton • Panic
D-rank Ninjutsu
With a single one handed seal, Hana is able to fire multiple Youton balls the size of small marbles from the torso of her elemental body that cover an area in a small cone in front of her to a distance of 5m. These balls travel at a speed of 7 and hit at a strength of 3, causing first degree burns at the points of impact.
C Rank:*Youton • Improved Wall
C-rank Ninjutsu
After performing a string of handseals, the user focuses chakra through their feet and into the surrounding earth. This causes a circular wall of lava to form directly around the user, shooting upwards from the ground with a speed of 15 and an impact strength of 5. This does very little to impede incoming projectiles (it does, however, dull them), but is good for keeping back taijutsu users. This jutsu causes 2nd degree burns on impact. The lava hardens over the span of 4 posts, reducing the strength of impacted objects by 1 strength per post.
Youton • Wolf Form
C-rank Ninjutsu
Channeling chakra through her elemental body, Hana changes her form into that of a large wolf. She will stand at four feet high on all fours and be five and a half feet long from nose to tail. This also gives a -3 to her Taijutsu stat while in this form, for a +3 to her speed.
Youton • Puddled Landscape
C-rank Ninjutsu
After channeling Youton chakra to her feet, Hana will stomp on the ground to send a wave of the chakra rippling out in a radius of 20m. This wave moves at a speed of 15 and hits at a strength of 5, potentially unbalancing nearby targets, and leaves puddles of Youton in its wake. These puddles remain for five posts.
Youton • Rodent Support
C-rank Ninjutsu
After channelling chakra through her own elemental body, Hana will cause what appears to be several rats to form of Youton and crawl off of her, racing away towards their targets. These rodents can move up to 20m away from her person and explode with the force of a single exploding tag upon contact with their intended target(s). These rats move at a speed of 10.
Youton • Tendril Grasp
C-rank Ninjutsu
After channeling Youton chakra to her hands/arms, Hana will reach out and grab onto a target. As she does so, lava tendrils expand from her wrist and wrap around the wrist of her target, causing second degree burns on contact and holding her target for three posts unless their strength exceeds a stat of ten.
B Rank:*Youton • Greater Trap
B-rank Ninjutsu
After performing a string of handseals, the user will focus chakra into the ground through their feet. This infuses the ground with Youton chakra, creating a circular trap with a radius of 20m with the user at the center. If someone aside from the user were to step within the range, lava would burst upwards with a speed of 10 and an impact strength of 30. This jutsu causes 3rd degree burns. The lava hardens over the span of 6 posts, reducing the strength of impacted objects by 7 strength per post. The trap lasts until triggered or for 6 posts, at which point it dissipates harmlessly.
Youton • Multiple Eruption
B-rank Ninjutsu
After performing Youton • Puddled Landscape, Hana will channel additional chakra to the puddles surrounding her and, with the appropriate Handseals, cause them to ‘detonate’. Lava will burst upwards from these puddles at a speed of ten and a strength of thirty. Falling lava from this technique may cause third degree burns on impact. This effect lasts for a total of six posts.
*Youton • Greater Lava Blast
B-rank Ninjutsu
After performing a string of handseals, the user thrusts their hands forward, causing lava to burst from the ground up to 10m forward. The lava then moves forward up to 15m with a speed of 20 and an impact strength of 20. This jutsu causes 3rd degree burns. The lava hardens over the span of 6 posts, reducing the strength of impacted objects by 5 strength per post.
A Rank:Youton • Molten Wings
A-rank Ninjutsu
Channeling chakra through her elemental body, specifically at her back, Hana forms wings that are thin but almost as tall as she is. Using these wings she may fly at a max of 30m in combat and they last for a duration of 7 posts. As a note, her speed while using this jutsu does not exceed her natural speed stat, this does not boost her speed.
Youton • True Clone
A-rank Ninjutsu
After channeling chakra around her, Hana is able to form a clone of herself, mimicking the woman herself and as she is in that moment. This clone is able to perform any jutsu Hana herself knows that equal their rank and lower. This clone has the following stats:
- Taijutsu: 8
- Strength: 8
- Stamina: 18
- Speed: 11
S Rank:Youton • Molten Core
S-rank Ninjutsu
Prerequisite: 40 Ninjutsu
Channeling chakra through her elemental body, Hana will shed her chakra shell and lose ‘form’. She will appear humanoid still but of molten lava at her normal height, yet her core unchanged, and this jutsu will take on two effects. The first effect is that her body becomes malleable, allowing physical substance to pass through it as if it were liquid form, with the exception of her core. The second effect is that she will radiate intense heat from her body, causing anyone within thirty meters of her body to experience first degree burns, anyone within twenty meters to experience second degree burns, and anyone within ten meters to experience third degree burns. Likewise, anything she touches will experience fourth degree burns and any material she touches will turn to slag at her touch unless reinforced by another’s chakra. This jutsu has a duration of nine posts.
Storage & Force Fuuinjutsu :: NinjutsuShow
D Rank:*Fuuinjutsu • Explosive Tag
D-Rank Force Fuuinjutsu
After drawing an 2x5 inch seal formula on a surface the user forms the needed hand seals then touches the seal, arming it with their chakra. Upon being kai'd, the tag releases it's stored energy as a D-Rank Explosion of concussive force outward from itself.
*Fuuinjutsu • Tattoo
D-Rank Storage Fuuinjutsu
Developed for clandestine operations originally, instead of using ink and paper, the user draws a seal onto their body the size of the item they are sealing into their body. Upon doing a set of hand seals, the user then slides the item into the tattoo and performs a second seal, causing the seal to go dormant. When kai'd the seal releases the stored item.
Charge Fuuinjutsu :: NinjutsuShow
D Rank:*Fuuinjutsu • Barrier Trap
D-Rank Charge Fuuinjutsu
After placing four exploding tags in a 10 meter radius, the user draws a line connecting each of the tags. When kai'd, all the tags are set off simultaneously.
Flawless Aim Style :: TaijutsuShow
Flawless Aim Style:This style of combat is favored by specialists preferring to use projectiles, often serving as a staple for taijutsu-based projectile users. Focusing on the synergy between their hands and senses they strive to make their reach as far as possible with flawless aim.
Requires [Projectile Weaponry] and [Upper Body] concentrations
D Rank:*[Flawless Aim Style • Sentinel Stance]
D-Rank Taijutsu Stance
A stable and steady stance practiced by nearly all wishing to use projectiles. At this stage they are planted and focusing on their arms and shoulders, moving in smooth motions to mitigate unnecessary movements that may ruin their aim.
*[Flawless Aim Style • Multi-shot]
D-Rank Taijutsu Maneuver
The practitioner is able to knock multiple arrows upon a single shot, loosing all of them simultaneously. Their accuracy suffers from this, taking a cumulative -2 Strength for each additional shot.
*[Flawless Aim Style • Arcing Shot]
D-Rank Taijutsu Maneuver
The practitioner is able to shoot in arcs up and over most obstacles, being able to accurately hit a target that is behind obstructions as if they were in the open. Granted, they must know of their target’s location or have another means of detecting them.
*[Flawless Aim Style • Tracking]
D-Rank Taijutsu Discipline
This allows the user to hit a moving target so long as it is moving in a way predictable to the user. They must still take into account travel time, and sudden changes in path will still affect the outcome.
*[Flawless Aim Style • Rapid Shot]
D-Rank Taijutsu Stance
The user will hold multiple projectiles in their hands to reduce the amount of time needed between each shot. When required they can quickly and fluidly draw more projectiles and keep up a steady stream of attacks. However, while utilizing this Stance the users feet must be planted, limiting the range of their assault, and their ability to be mobile while using it.
C Rank:*[Flawless Aim Style • Evasive Maneuvers]
C-Rank Taijutsu Discipline
The user has learned to maintain accuracy while on the move. This allows the user to move at full speed and even change directions without interrupting their rhythm.
*[Flawless Aim Style • Ricochet Shot]
C-Rank Taijutsu Maneuver
By launching their shot at the proper angle the practitioner is capable of bouncing their projectile off solid surfaces without losing accuracy. Any surface they bounce off causes the projectile to lose ⅕ of its impact strength and soft or uneven surfaces are impossible to bounce off.
*[Flawless Aim Style • Hidden Shot]
C-Rank Taijutsu Maneuver
By releasing two projectiles back to back the user attempts to create a decoy for the second. The first projectile is often larger or of equal size and the second is slightly behind and below it, usually attempting to hide in the first’s shadow. This masks the attack to some degree. However, perceptive opponents who have an instinct greater than the user’s tai may be able to see through the charade, provided they have means to do so.
*[Flawless Aim Style • Twisting Path]
C-Rank Taijutsu Maneuver
By adding a spin to the weapon before it is launched the user is able to give the it a warping motion as it flies through the air. With much practice, the user is able to predict the weapon’s shifting motion and aim accordingly. This can be used to hit a target that is hiding behind another person or object, and is especially useful against a human shield.
*[Flawless Aim Style • Improvised Ammo]
C-Rank Taijutsu Discipline
The practitioner knows their own reliance on ammunition thus emphasizes never being caught without. With the right technique they are fully capable of launching nearly anything, so long as it possesses at least the mass of a standard kunai, they could otherwise throw or shoot as if it were designed to do so in the first place. Unfortunately, this has an impact on the strength of the impact in the form of a -3 strength.
Toryu Style :: TaijutsuShow
Toryu Kenjutsu:Toryu Kenjutsu is a sword style originating from the Land of Pebbles that focuses on not just performing kenjutsu but also weaving close quarters style taijutsu into the bladework. Toryu's specialty is not only learning to capably slash a sword with one hand but also learning to use the hands, joints, legs and even the head to make frighteningly dangerous close quarters fighters. An inelegant style, it is commonly associated with the more 'rough' samurai but in truth it's reliance on two opposing impulses and control of the body makes it one of the more difficult Kenjutsu styles to learn. While usable with most blades, experienced fighters often prefer wakizashi, ninjato and even tanto daggers instead of katana for increased mobility.
- Requires: [Upper Body], [Sword] Concentrations
D Rank:*[Toryu • Close Quarters]
D- Ranked Taijutsu Stance
Prerequisite: 5 Taijutsu
The signature stance of the style, Close Quarters teaches users of this style how to rapidly change the angle, position and even grip of their weapon without moving their hand from it's signature position at the user's waist for maximum versatility. Users of this style often assume a one foot forward, one back, slightly swayed stance to free up movement as well at the expense of leaving their center open.
*[Toryu • Lunging Feint]
D-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
Prerequisite: 5 Speed
A basic technique of the style wherein the user moves in for a basic lunge-thrust with their weapon, only to turn in mid thrust and attempt to sweep their leg under the opponent's own. This tends to be useful as a basic feint and can usually knock down those with less strength than the user who get caught by it.
*[Toryu • Guard Break]
D-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
Prerequisite: 5 Strength
After rushing in on a foe and initiating an attack the user waits for the opponent to guard, either with arm or weapon, before quickly lashing out with their hand or pommel of their blade and attempting to smash the guarding hand or arm aside with a wrist smash. The pain as well as damage can interrupt the guard of opponents, leaving them wide open for the initial attack to hit.
*[Toryu • Limb Lock]
D-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
Prerequisite: *[Toryu • Close Quarters] , 5 Taijutsu
A dangerous close quarters 'option closer', the Toryu user will sweep in close and try to slam their foot down on an opponent's as well as quickly sweep their arm around the opponent's to lock their elbow with the user's own. This technique is usually utilized for setting up blows or blocking off the weapons of dual-wielding foes and it forces the opponent to break out of the move before counter-attacking.
*[Toryu • Counter Kick]
D-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
Prerequisite: 5 Taijutsu, 5 Strength
The user of this technique will attempt to block the blow of his opponent with his blade, relying heavily on the durability of their weapon and their own strength to resist the strength of the opponent's attack. Should they be successful, the user will follow up with a swift kick to the target's chest or stomach to push them away and stun them, then follow up with a quick stab to the chest or stomach.
C Rank:*[Toryu • Leg Hook Grapple]
C-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
Prerequisite: 15 Taijutsu, 10 Speed
A potent close quarters move that is performed by rushing at a foe and attempting to jump onto the opponent's shoulders. Then, assuming they land, the user shifts their weight in an attempt to unbalance the victim. If performed correctly on an opponent with 10 or less strength who cannot compensate for the weight and momentum it causes them to tip back or go off balance, setting up for a secondary slash or stab at their now exposed head or torso.
*[Toryu • Subversion Grappling]
C-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
Prerequisite: 15 Taijutsu
One of the more utilized techniques in the arsenal of the style, it involves the shifting of offense and defense, specifically utilizing the sword as a defensive weapon and the hand as the main weapon; by blocking far off the center of the clash (to the side, above, below), the user opens up an opposing swordsman or weapon specialist to punches, quick closes and even more complicated maneuvers simply by forcing their sword back for a moment. The downside of course is it lessens the overall effectiveness of the sword.
*[Toryu • Sweep Cutter]
C-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
Prerequisite: 15 Taijutsu
During close quarters or after engaging a foe via a rush, the user quickly forces themselves back as they divert body weight downwards typically causing a quick and controllable slide under the opponent's field of control, usually between the legs or to the side. During this slide the user attempts slashes, stabs or even hooks or drags the opponent down with them to open up for more techniques or just deal considerable damage.
*[Toryu • Disregard of Fear]
C-Ranked Taijutsu Discipline
Prerequisite: 15 Instinct
Many of the Toryu techniques would put the user in incredibly daring positions where a single mistake could instantly spell disaster for the swordsman. As a result, Toryu practitioners must train themselves constantly to avoid letting their fears distract them from their task. A user with this technique has learned to shut out fear in the heat of combat, allowing them to perform their death defying attacks without the risk of failure due to fear responses.
*[Toryu • Staggering Knee Strike]
C-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
Prerequisite: 15 Taijutsu, 15 Strength
The user quickly dashes into an opponent's range while delivering a quick knee strike to the target's solar plexus in an attempt to stagger the opponent. The aim is to get the target to lean forward while holding their gut, opening up the many vulnerable areas of the back, neck and skull to various possible finishing moves.