Board Thread:Konoha General RP/@comment-28929139-20170821054204

Life in Kumogakure was nice...somewhat, but apart from all the bandits and occasional wannabe gangster trying to stir up trouble, it was a lot less chaotic than Konoha seemed to be. Or maybe it was and she just had the privilege of never having to hear about any bad news but as a Genin too, her access to higher staked missions were skimpy. However, now that she was in Konoha, the stakes were much higher it seemed.

With that in mind, she knew she really wanted and needed to step up her game and as such with her medical knowledge on a practical level. Much thanks to Obelisk for giving her a chance and a shot at working with him in the hospital. So now, armed with the knowledge of a new jutsu that seemed to be a bread and butter tactic for medical ninja, she intended to practice with it more.

To help with learning how to better utilize Chakra Scalpel, Sup Pung got herself a small lab to work in and used an already squid to practice on for dissection as well as the six most common scalpels used for surgery. With activating the jutsu, her personal electricity pushed it forward more and added to the heat and sharpness of the super-imposed blade she shaped at the tip of her left index finger. It took quite her a little bit of concentration to mentally visualize and shape the blade like the one in her hand but after a few seconds it would eventually form to her will. The frontal side of the blade was curved in a more wide, obtuse angle that had a straight back with the tip of it angled to that upon meeting the curve of the blade the two sides would meet into a fine point.

Armed with the knowledge of how a number 10 scalpel blade was to be used, Sup Pung started off this little practice cutting a line directly down the squid’s long and large flesh dome that tapered atop the skull. She had to keep her hand steady but with a slow, calculated descent of her wrist and fingers, she was able to make the cut. From there she, drew her hand away and looked at her scalpeled finger while she visualized the next blade shape. With her eyes staring between the next scalpel she wanted to shape her chakra into, the curved blade would slowly, very slowly shapen into a straighter but slanted edge while the tapered back would slant out more so that the two sides met into a finer point. Armed with such a finely detailed psionic plade now, Sup Pung was able to cut into smaller details. Of course, with her chakra control still needing practice, she’d been able to make a few good cuts before her concentration would fuzz out a bit and her clean thin lines would become larger and messier. That was okay though, practice makes perfect right?

The next blade she aimed to replicate called for an inward curve of the blade much like a hook but far more open. While it seemed easy in theory, it was actually quite hard to make her chakra curl and Sup Pung had to physically coil her finger with the chakra coating it to make it happen. But all the same, once she had been able to do so, she pulled open the squid’s many tentacles and turned it over slightly to expose the three limbed beak. Carefully with her concentration at its highest, she gently pulled out one of the beaks with the fingers of her right hand while she was able to saw and slice through the first of the beak. Unlike a real scalpel, Sup Pung actually found it a bit easier to cut since chakra didn’t waiver like a metal blade might when met with resistance. Once the first of three beaks were removed, she had an easier time severing the other two pieces with comparably better ease. Next came the process of straightening the blade back out, which was much easier since by default chakra juts out at factory longitude.

Straightening out the blade was easy to do, but getting it to thicken back out and curve at the top while getting it to narrow out at the bottom was much harder and Sup Pung had reignite the jutsu twice to get it right. “Ughhh….and it’s of course one of the commonly used…” She grunted while having to resort to using her fingers coated in electricity to bypass the razor sharp frequency of the jutsu while she shaped it. Her brain was going a million miles a minute in trying to shape this up with her fingers while also mentally visualizing the shape, looking back and forth constantly between the real scalpel and the one made of chakra. After some seconds, she got a similar silhouette but it wasn’t quite exact, but it was close enough in shape to serve its purpose. Armed with the fourth variation of the scalpel, Sup Pung tested it out by slicing up fine layers of the flesh on the squid’s dome and peeled it back like an onion skin. The cuts weren’t quite as clean, nor were the layers thick in the same consistency but Sup Pung would continue to practice so she wasn’t that worried about it.

So now with the final blade to replicate, she was relieved to find that shaping it would have been a cakewalk since all she had to do to shape it was allow the bottom half of it to straighten out while letting it widen out through the body. This sort of scalpel was best geared toward making larger, deeper incisions through thicker skin and tissue and treating it more like a regular knife, Sup Pung sliced apart the squid as a whole. This was easily the most effortless endeavor through this whole activity and Sup Pung knew that she would likely be using this shape the most until she got more comfortable and used to shaping out the other silhouettes. Ultimately though, she’d hoped in the future that she wouldn’t have to be using this...much.  