Early in the afternoon shortly after lunch time found Ryuko located just behind the main academy building. Given her rank as a gennin it seemed on the surface a rather odd place for her to be but she had come here for a reason. Since she was lacking a sensai at the moment she had come here to ask the teachers for advice on what sort of jutsu to learn.
It was her first time visiting the building, but they had been kind enough to lend her a scroll to use with a few mid ranked weapon jutsu on it with the proviso that she didn’t take it off academy property. Given how valuable such scrolls could be she could understand the precaution. Even widely known moves like this could be trouble in the wrong hands.
Take the bandit group she had taken down led by an ex academy student. All it would take was a couple of scrolls like the one’s she had and they’d been enough to turn them into ninja in their own right.
In addition to the scroll from the instructors she had well read scroll of her own, brought with from the monastery in the mountains. Contained within it was everything one neede to know about a fighting style known as the Arhat fist. So far she had completed more then half the scroll leaving only the last three moves left to learn.
As a martial art specalist that made her “good” for a gennin. Once she finishshed the scroll it would maybe even put her above what would be expected of her rank in terms of capability. Most people wouldn’t expect a lot of b-rank moves coming from a gennin after all. But was it really enough? Arhat fist was by far the most well known fighting style in the shiobi world which meant people would be able to read her.
Not much of a problem if she was facing anyone slower then her, but she was a far cry from the fastest shinobi around herself which meant that by itself it wouldn’t take her very far, especially with the total lack of A and S ranked moves. Sure she mixed in some Muay Thai and a couple other styles but those weren’t anything special either.
In the worst case scenario If she ran into someone who could use their element in close combat or could block her physical attacks she was in some serious trouble. What she was going to attempt learn today wouldn’t fix all of that, but it would go a long way to improving the situation as well as give her a bit more range support for the times she couldn’t get close in.
Today as with almost every day when she was on duty she was wearing her usual shrine priestess outfit which consisted of a purple kimono top with matching colored detached sleeves. This kimono was tucked into a red pleated skirt held up by a light blue belt and below that where detached purple stockings. Over her kimono she wore a mantle. It was purple on the outside with with with her clan symbol woven in gold back but red on the inside ,with golden trimming along the edge which denoted her rank as a priestess. It went a great deal towards concealing the batons she had holstered on her belt behind her back as well as her one fumma shuriken.
The most eye catching part of her outfit though was a golden necklace worn around her neck known as the amulet of kings. With one large flawless blue diamond at the center supported by twelve smaller diamonds around it, it was a master piece fitting for a member of nobility such as herself to be wearing.
First up was was a technique to enlarge a throwing weapon such as her fumma shuriken which appropriately enough was known as the Ninja Art: Shuriken Giant Body Technique. For something that was a c-ranked jutsu it was frighteningly simple. All you had to do was throw a shuriken then form the tiger hand seal while it was in range and the size and weight of the weapon would multiply.
Well techically you didn’t HAVE to throw it first, but it was strongly advised to since the average shinobi wouldn’t be strong enough to still wield it effectively once enlarged. Wither or not Ryuko herself could do that was an open question she didn’t really care to answer. She was stronger then average now so maybe if she threw her back into it using the right arhat fist stance... Well it was a lot of energy on a maybe. Energy she couldn’t afford to waste. The scroll said the effective range for it to take effect was about fifteen meters. That seemed plenty since once enlarged it would still travel with the same momentum she had originally put into it.
Giving it a whirl she clipped her fumma shruiken off her belt and gave it a light hurl towards a target post that sat at the other end of the training yard. Moving quickly she followed up by making the tiger seal and suddenly the shuriken turned three, no four times larger in a burst of smoke. “Das’t” she thought as she watched it embed itself deep into the post. That was going to leave a mark. If she’d thrown it at full strenght the sheer size might have split the post in half.
With a puff of smoke the shuriken return to normal size and clattered to the ground for her to retrieve when she was ready. But really what else was she going to do with it at the moment? She’d love to be able to throw it like a boomrang like she could with smaller items but with the level her corridnation was currently at their was no way she could do that and still be able to catch it safely once it came back at her. Better safe then sorry and leave that for another day.
Next up was a couple of shuriken jutsu using some ninja wire which she’d made sure to aquire the other day for this exact purpose. The first one was simple really, hardly more then a parlor trick where you used the wire to move the shuriken so that you could change it’s direction in mid air after you throw it. The neat part is she only needed one finger to do this so potentially she could move a up to ten of them at a time if she had enough wire.
The second one was a more advanced version application of the first where you basically threw the shruiken in order to set up a trap with the wires so that you could bind an opponent with them. She had to admit it would be nice to be able to capture someone alive without having taking out one of their kneecaps first.
Tying some string around the hole on the middle of one shuriken she went to work practicing throwing it around and then moving it mid air so that it would go where she wanted with minimal movement. No grand gestures or sweeping hands, just a twitch of a finger. Before long she had it down pat. After that getting the wires to go where she wanted was a cake walk since she was already a dead shot on stationary targets.
Sadly that was where the scroll the academy instructors had ended. Any high ranked shuriken jutsu was something they didn’t have access to which meant that she’d either have to find someone to teach her directly or learn on her own. Thinking about it they had a scroll on some basic sword moves… maybe she’d have to think investing in one in the future. Just because she wasn’t a sword specialist didn’t mean she couldn’t learn a few techniques, just that she wouldn’t be able to make up her own the way she was intending to do with her batons eventually.
Rolling up the scroll she made a mental note to herself to thank the instructors later once she was done and returned it to them. The rest she didn’t have to be on academy grounds to do but really this was as good as a place as any to practice some martial arts and she’d hardly worked up a sweet so far so she might as well keep going. She wasn’t ever going to improve her stamina if she didn’t push herself.
The next couple of moves where so simple it was almost a wonder she couldn’t do them already. She already knew the shatter palm which as the name implied one thurst their palm at an oppoant to do damage. Now she was learning the Slamming and Crushing palm which was almost the same thing only with a change of direction upwards and downwards respectfully. She could do that easily but just to be safe she practiced doing each one for an hour respectfully making sure she had the proper form mastered inside and out so that she could use them on muscle memory alone without having to put any thought into it.
Then for the last taijutsu move of the day she went to work on the smashing boulder which was the ultimate move of the arhat fist. Some ultimate move really when all one had to do was put all their power and weight into a simple freaking punch. It was something she was going to have to fix in the future so, even if she had to make up a jutsu of her own so that the style finally had something worth being called an ultimate move.
Glancing at the training post she grinned. At this point it was already messed up so what did it matter if she finished it off? This move was supposed to be strong enough to smash an entire boulder so a tree trunk should be a cake walk. Remembering how much her hand had hurt after smacking Santa she hesitated for a split second but quickly pushed that aside. Even if It wasn’t ultimate it would make for a good finisher now in a pinch so she needed to make sure she could actually use it if it came down to it.
“Hi yah.” she cried out as she pulled back her first then swung it with everything she had holding nothing back as it smacked into the wood causing it to burst a shower of sawdust and splinters upon contact. Yep, it worked just as adverstised she thought as she dusted herself off, her hand throbbing slightly from the effort. She COULD use the attack but she was going to need to be tougher before she relied on it too much. Plus to be frank the way it ate energy was brutal taking one forth of her entire stamina for just one blow.
“Good thing I’ve been training to last longer…. I’ll need that extra energy. No wonder they don’t teach this at the academy level despite it being so simple.” she thought to herself. She was learning first hand that there was a good reason why most gennin couldn’t learn b rank jutsu. Just because you where smart enough to didn’t mean you had the energy for it.
Taking a short rest to recover some energy before she went for her last move for the day she poured herself some barley tea and took a sip letting out a long sigh wishing she could have a beer after all of her hard work. Maybe if she ranked up it’d be easier to talk the bars into letting her in. It was one thing to throw a gennin out but another entirely to do the same for a gennin.
The last bit would be the trickiest since she was was going to have to work without a scroll to as a guide. But as luck would have it it was a jutsu she had seen quite a few times between her former sensai and her acquiescent Simon. One she wanted to try for herself since it seemed like a really good force multiplier.
Well force multiplier was the wrong word here since she didn’t really want to use it for battle. Correction after doing some research on it she COULDN’T use it in battle effectively at her current level. Simon was playing dumb around her but the fact he could use it gave away the fact he was a stronger ninja then her if the fact she hadn’t seen him fry Santa with a lightning bolt hadn’t given that away already.
It was simple math really. The kage bushin or shadow clone jutsu as it was also know as allowed one to make a functional body double of themselves, the only downside being that said double couldn’t take a hit. The problem was it split the users chakra evenly between themselves and their copies. The plain fact was Ryuko didn’t have a lot of chakra to go around.
At the very most if she had a full tank she could make two clones and still be able to maintain them. them around but then she wouldn’t have enough left to do anything else with afterwards. Way way to risky to do during a fight. Even splitting her chakra in half with one clone would be pretty stupid. But when it came to applications outside of battle the uses where endless. Just speeding up her crafting time alone would be a godsend.
Forming the same seal she remembered Akahashi using during their training session she emitted a burst of smoke and then suddenly found herself standing side by side with herself, her face looking pale from the sheer drain since she hadn’t done it at a full tank. Thinking quickly she released the seal clone voluntarily returning most of the energy she had put into it back into herself along with the strange memory of looking at herself from another perspective without the use of a mirror.
“That’s defiantly not one to use carelessly.” she thought to herself as she dusted herself off as best as she could. That was more then enough training for one day, now it was time to make a special delivery.
[exit towards Heaven Construct]
It was her first time visiting the building, but they had been kind enough to lend her a scroll to use with a few mid ranked weapon jutsu on it with the proviso that she didn’t take it off academy property. Given how valuable such scrolls could be she could understand the precaution. Even widely known moves like this could be trouble in the wrong hands.
Take the bandit group she had taken down led by an ex academy student. All it would take was a couple of scrolls like the one’s she had and they’d been enough to turn them into ninja in their own right.
In addition to the scroll from the instructors she had well read scroll of her own, brought with from the monastery in the mountains. Contained within it was everything one neede to know about a fighting style known as the Arhat fist. So far she had completed more then half the scroll leaving only the last three moves left to learn.
As a martial art specalist that made her “good” for a gennin. Once she finishshed the scroll it would maybe even put her above what would be expected of her rank in terms of capability. Most people wouldn’t expect a lot of b-rank moves coming from a gennin after all. But was it really enough? Arhat fist was by far the most well known fighting style in the shiobi world which meant people would be able to read her.
Not much of a problem if she was facing anyone slower then her, but she was a far cry from the fastest shinobi around herself which meant that by itself it wouldn’t take her very far, especially with the total lack of A and S ranked moves. Sure she mixed in some Muay Thai and a couple other styles but those weren’t anything special either.
In the worst case scenario If she ran into someone who could use their element in close combat or could block her physical attacks she was in some serious trouble. What she was going to attempt learn today wouldn’t fix all of that, but it would go a long way to improving the situation as well as give her a bit more range support for the times she couldn’t get close in.
Today as with almost every day when she was on duty she was wearing her usual shrine priestess outfit which consisted of a purple kimono top with matching colored detached sleeves. This kimono was tucked into a red pleated skirt held up by a light blue belt and below that where detached purple stockings. Over her kimono she wore a mantle. It was purple on the outside with with with her clan symbol woven in gold back but red on the inside ,with golden trimming along the edge which denoted her rank as a priestess. It went a great deal towards concealing the batons she had holstered on her belt behind her back as well as her one fumma shuriken.
The most eye catching part of her outfit though was a golden necklace worn around her neck known as the amulet of kings. With one large flawless blue diamond at the center supported by twelve smaller diamonds around it, it was a master piece fitting for a member of nobility such as herself to be wearing.
First up was was a technique to enlarge a throwing weapon such as her fumma shuriken which appropriately enough was known as the Ninja Art: Shuriken Giant Body Technique. For something that was a c-ranked jutsu it was frighteningly simple. All you had to do was throw a shuriken then form the tiger hand seal while it was in range and the size and weight of the weapon would multiply.
Well techically you didn’t HAVE to throw it first, but it was strongly advised to since the average shinobi wouldn’t be strong enough to still wield it effectively once enlarged. Wither or not Ryuko herself could do that was an open question she didn’t really care to answer. She was stronger then average now so maybe if she threw her back into it using the right arhat fist stance... Well it was a lot of energy on a maybe. Energy she couldn’t afford to waste. The scroll said the effective range for it to take effect was about fifteen meters. That seemed plenty since once enlarged it would still travel with the same momentum she had originally put into it.
Giving it a whirl she clipped her fumma shruiken off her belt and gave it a light hurl towards a target post that sat at the other end of the training yard. Moving quickly she followed up by making the tiger seal and suddenly the shuriken turned three, no four times larger in a burst of smoke. “Das’t” she thought as she watched it embed itself deep into the post. That was going to leave a mark. If she’d thrown it at full strenght the sheer size might have split the post in half.
With a puff of smoke the shuriken return to normal size and clattered to the ground for her to retrieve when she was ready. But really what else was she going to do with it at the moment? She’d love to be able to throw it like a boomrang like she could with smaller items but with the level her corridnation was currently at their was no way she could do that and still be able to catch it safely once it came back at her. Better safe then sorry and leave that for another day.
Next up was a couple of shuriken jutsu using some ninja wire which she’d made sure to aquire the other day for this exact purpose. The first one was simple really, hardly more then a parlor trick where you used the wire to move the shuriken so that you could change it’s direction in mid air after you throw it. The neat part is she only needed one finger to do this so potentially she could move a up to ten of them at a time if she had enough wire.
The second one was a more advanced version application of the first where you basically threw the shruiken in order to set up a trap with the wires so that you could bind an opponent with them. She had to admit it would be nice to be able to capture someone alive without having taking out one of their kneecaps first.
Tying some string around the hole on the middle of one shuriken she went to work practicing throwing it around and then moving it mid air so that it would go where she wanted with minimal movement. No grand gestures or sweeping hands, just a twitch of a finger. Before long she had it down pat. After that getting the wires to go where she wanted was a cake walk since she was already a dead shot on stationary targets.
Sadly that was where the scroll the academy instructors had ended. Any high ranked shuriken jutsu was something they didn’t have access to which meant that she’d either have to find someone to teach her directly or learn on her own. Thinking about it they had a scroll on some basic sword moves… maybe she’d have to think investing in one in the future. Just because she wasn’t a sword specialist didn’t mean she couldn’t learn a few techniques, just that she wouldn’t be able to make up her own the way she was intending to do with her batons eventually.
Rolling up the scroll she made a mental note to herself to thank the instructors later once she was done and returned it to them. The rest she didn’t have to be on academy grounds to do but really this was as good as a place as any to practice some martial arts and she’d hardly worked up a sweet so far so she might as well keep going. She wasn’t ever going to improve her stamina if she didn’t push herself.
The next couple of moves where so simple it was almost a wonder she couldn’t do them already. She already knew the shatter palm which as the name implied one thurst their palm at an oppoant to do damage. Now she was learning the Slamming and Crushing palm which was almost the same thing only with a change of direction upwards and downwards respectfully. She could do that easily but just to be safe she practiced doing each one for an hour respectfully making sure she had the proper form mastered inside and out so that she could use them on muscle memory alone without having to put any thought into it.
Then for the last taijutsu move of the day she went to work on the smashing boulder which was the ultimate move of the arhat fist. Some ultimate move really when all one had to do was put all their power and weight into a simple freaking punch. It was something she was going to have to fix in the future so, even if she had to make up a jutsu of her own so that the style finally had something worth being called an ultimate move.
Glancing at the training post she grinned. At this point it was already messed up so what did it matter if she finished it off? This move was supposed to be strong enough to smash an entire boulder so a tree trunk should be a cake walk. Remembering how much her hand had hurt after smacking Santa she hesitated for a split second but quickly pushed that aside. Even if It wasn’t ultimate it would make for a good finisher now in a pinch so she needed to make sure she could actually use it if it came down to it.
“Hi yah.” she cried out as she pulled back her first then swung it with everything she had holding nothing back as it smacked into the wood causing it to burst a shower of sawdust and splinters upon contact. Yep, it worked just as adverstised she thought as she dusted herself off, her hand throbbing slightly from the effort. She COULD use the attack but she was going to need to be tougher before she relied on it too much. Plus to be frank the way it ate energy was brutal taking one forth of her entire stamina for just one blow.
“Good thing I’ve been training to last longer…. I’ll need that extra energy. No wonder they don’t teach this at the academy level despite it being so simple.” she thought to herself. She was learning first hand that there was a good reason why most gennin couldn’t learn b rank jutsu. Just because you where smart enough to didn’t mean you had the energy for it.
Taking a short rest to recover some energy before she went for her last move for the day she poured herself some barley tea and took a sip letting out a long sigh wishing she could have a beer after all of her hard work. Maybe if she ranked up it’d be easier to talk the bars into letting her in. It was one thing to throw a gennin out but another entirely to do the same for a gennin.
The last bit would be the trickiest since she was was going to have to work without a scroll to as a guide. But as luck would have it it was a jutsu she had seen quite a few times between her former sensai and her acquiescent Simon. One she wanted to try for herself since it seemed like a really good force multiplier.
Well force multiplier was the wrong word here since she didn’t really want to use it for battle. Correction after doing some research on it she COULDN’T use it in battle effectively at her current level. Simon was playing dumb around her but the fact he could use it gave away the fact he was a stronger ninja then her if the fact she hadn’t seen him fry Santa with a lightning bolt hadn’t given that away already.
It was simple math really. The kage bushin or shadow clone jutsu as it was also know as allowed one to make a functional body double of themselves, the only downside being that said double couldn’t take a hit. The problem was it split the users chakra evenly between themselves and their copies. The plain fact was Ryuko didn’t have a lot of chakra to go around.
At the very most if she had a full tank she could make two clones and still be able to maintain them. them around but then she wouldn’t have enough left to do anything else with afterwards. Way way to risky to do during a fight. Even splitting her chakra in half with one clone would be pretty stupid. But when it came to applications outside of battle the uses where endless. Just speeding up her crafting time alone would be a godsend.
Forming the same seal she remembered Akahashi using during their training session she emitted a burst of smoke and then suddenly found herself standing side by side with herself, her face looking pale from the sheer drain since she hadn’t done it at a full tank. Thinking quickly she released the seal clone voluntarily returning most of the energy she had put into it back into herself along with the strange memory of looking at herself from another perspective without the use of a mirror.
“That’s defiantly not one to use carelessly.” she thought to herself as she dusted herself off as best as she could. That was more then enough training for one day, now it was time to make a special delivery.
[exit towards Heaven Construct]
- Spoiler:
- Learning
Crushing Palm
Manipulated Shuriken Technique
Manipulated Shuriken Wire Binding
Ninja Art: Shuriken Giant Body Technique
Shadow Clone Technique
Slamming Palm
Smashing Boulder
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