Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-24479578-20161105030912/@comment-24479578-20161105030925

The light outside the window flashed only to be followed five seconds later by the slow rolling rumble of thunder. The perfect lullaby to remain asleep to with the slow rolling rumble starting, steadily growing louder then drowning out to nothing. There was nothing more soothing to the young necromancer. It was a day that normally most people would remain inside for and negate training for the day. But Nali wasn’t most people. Slowly, her eyes opened and she looked through the dirty glass of the window to see the dark sky that made it as if it was still partially night. She didn’t want to move from the bed. Her head still heavy with sleep while her eyelids slowly moved down over her silver hues as if trying to brush away the remainder of sleep dust. On the floor beside the bed would be a book that she had found while going through things in the house. A book that should have been kept much safer than it had been considering it held the jutsu of O’s clan. But she had read through it from beginning to end and now understood what it was that he was trying to do with his bones. It was rather interesting to imagine what he was able to do using his abilities. However, she shouldn’t have been too surprised with him having made a bone sculpture of a camomile flower for her when he asked her to be his. There was much that she wouldn’t have been surprised with when it came to him. He was something different. On top of that was a scroll that laid with the ribbon undone. Like she had started to read it then thought better about it and went to bed. Well, she didn’t have much of a choice about it now. Morning had come and there was no real reason for her to go outside for the moment. Slowly, she turned over in O’s bed and looked to the scroll that was beside her. Her fingers moving over it just enough that it rolled out and she could read it with her hands still tucked up underneath her pillow. If she was going to study, she was going to study on her terms. Her hair was ruffled up against the pillow and a dried place of spit was on her opposite cheek as her eyes moved over the parchment. She pulled the blanket up under her nose while she continued to read over the justu’s instructions. In almost a mimicking manner, she started reading the scroll out loud. “Phoenix Sage Fire Technique. Classification. Ninjutsu. Nature of Jutsu. Fire Release. No kidding..” She said as she rolled her eyes a bit. “It says so right in the title of the jutsu. I’d hate to be the person that messed up thinking that this was a water nature release and tried to water their plants. That would suck to be them.” Her eyes went back to the scroll and she continued to read it once more as if she were teaching a lesson on this one release. “Range of the attack. Short Range. It is an offensive jutsu. No. You’re kidding.” She just couldn’t help herself when things were so blatantly obvious. Her eyes scanned over the instructions more then landed on the hand seals for it. ‘Ok. So we have rodent, feline, canine, bovine, hare and feline again. Pretty simple and straightforward.” She said to herself as she continued to read over the parchment. Another flash of lightning lit up the room and cast a shadow of her head upon the scroll as she pulled the blanket just under her nose and around her body a bit more. Some reason, it was a welcoming and soothing feeling to have something around her. Not as soothing and welcoming as having arms wrapped around her but it was good enough for the time being. Just after the flash, she began to count. “One one thousand. Two one thousand. Three one thousand. Fou…” Then the rumble began off in the distance coming to a loud booming crescendo that threatened to shake the very foundation of the house before tapering off to a soft growl before disappearing completely. “Storm’s close. Four miles away.” She looked over her shoulder and watched the rain fall down over the glass in jagged lines as one drop connected with another while moving over it’s course. Nali’s attention once more returned to the parchment that she held before her on the floor. Propping her head up in the palm of her left hand, she scrunched her cheek a bit as she toyed with her lower lip while continuing to read. Now it was on with the description. This is the thing that she wanted to know about. The instructions were pretty much the same as most fire nature jutsu that involved the mouth. You kneaded chakra in the belly and released it through the mouth aimed at your target. However, the description of what was supposed to happen was what separated one fire release from another. That and the hand seals. Once more she began to read out loud to herself. “This technique creates a volley of small fireballs, which are sent flying in an unpredictable manner assaulting the enemy.” She tilted her head a bit and gave a bit of a nod. “Hmm. Not bad.” She then continued on. “In addition, the flames are controlled individually with chakra, so avoiding them all is extremely difficult.” This caused a smile to cross Nali’s lips. “Oh I like this. Hide and Seek with fire being it.” A laugh left her lips a bit as she sat up and pulled the blankets around her legs. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Once more she got situated on the bed then pulled the scroll up onto her lap. There wasn’t much more to it that she had to read but it was the mechanics of the jutsu itself now. Hand seals were pretty straightforward. You make them to release the chakra needed to perform the jutsu of your choosing and certain jutsu required a certain set of seals to be made before moving on. That was something that she remembered being told when she first went into the academy. Shaking her head, she smirked. “Look at you go. Remembering things from the days of old. Your momma'd be so proud of you.” She said chuckling to herself with the falling rain being her only other company at the moment. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">One by one, she made the hand seals for the jutsu. Slowly at first, making sure that her fingers were exactly where they needed to be for the hand seal to be made properly. There was only Twelve of them to form and this jutsu only required five. Two of them were duplicates so that was just a matter of remembering at what part of the listing they came at. It looked like the tiger seal came second and last. But that was pretty easy. Most of the fire jutsu were associated with the tiger seal. It was just getting the rest of them in order to make sure that they were memorized and able to be performed without a second thought to them. It was stressful on the battlefield and she couldn’t afford to start to slip up now. Not when she had just returned with her life and the lives of others still intact. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Out loud, she spoke the sign names while her fingers moved to make the seal. “Rat. Tiger. Dog. Ox. Rabbit. Tiger.” Her words were slow while she concentrated on the formation of the seals. One after another, she continued to make the same sequence of seals. Her eyes closing after twenty minutes of practicing them to make sure that she didn’t peek at the scroll that was on her lap. “Rat. Tiger. Dog. Ox. Rabbit. Tiger.” She said again only it came out more like a mantra rather than just memorization. Faster her hands began to move while the words were slipping from her lips just as quickly. Beyond the sound of the falling rain and the rolling thunder, she heard the sound of the mantle clock that was on O bureau. The soft ticking could have easily been lost in the storm that was going on outside but it became her metronome. Hearing each tick, she said a seal and created that seal. After making the set a few times, she then aimed to make two seals for each one tick. With each set of six seals, her movement became more fluent and without its minor flaws. She was not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but she was matching her own personal best and aiming to move beyond it. Once she had gotten proficient in two seals per tick, she moved it then to three seals per tick. An hour had gone by and Nali had been sitting there in the bed with the blanket over her lap, simply perfecting her hand seals. A large crack of thunder startled her and brought her out of her little training trance. Looking over her shoulder, she saw the rain continuing to come down the glass. It looked like she had time for breakfast before starting the next phase of her training. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Down the stairs and into the dining room, Nali went with the scroll in hand. Her silver hues looked over the description more before she placed it on the table and walked over to the fridge in her purple bunny slippers and chibi Kurama shorts and tank top pajamas. Taking out some orange juice, she poured herself a glass then took an extra sip from the container before placing it back and taking out the eggs. Her favorite meal was about to be created. Scrambled eggs with rice and mealworms. As much as people would look at her plate and say ‘ewww!’ to the idea, what they didn’t realize was how high in protein and nutrients the little mealworms were. Yes they were still alive and yea they felt funny going down because you could still feel them wiggling and trying to crawl, but on a health scale, they were pretty high up there. Perhaps a reason that she didn’t get sick was all the bugs that she did eat. She shrugged it off as she moved about to get a frying pan out and placed some butter in the bottom. Frying up the eggs, she then placed the pre cooked rice in the pan to just heat it up. Finally was the mealworms. Those stayed alive. The idea of killing them while she chewed just kinda did it for her. But it could have been worse. She could have been killing people instead of insects. She believed this was a pretty safe alternative to murder and a life sentence. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">While she sat and ate her meal, she continued to look at the manor that the jutsu was made. It would have to have the chakra split up in some way. It was a matter of how it split up though. Was it something that she did with her lips? Her tongue like clicking? It became a bit puzzling while she pondered over the jutsu while she ate. Looking up from the scroll, she looked out the sliding door to the back deck while she continued to ponder on the way to make the little ‘balls’ of flame instead of a large one. Perhaps it was an automatic thing and just because of the seals that were used, it created this effect. She brought up her orange juice and took a sip while she cleaned out her teeth slightly from the combination of eggs and mealworms. This part of the jutsu really had her stumped. Looking back down at the scroll, she read over the instructions completely and the description once more. She couldn’t have been more thorough than she was being at this moment. Every word. Every line. She read over and over. There was no part of this instruction that she could have missed. Perhaps it was just the seals that created the little fire ‘balls.’ Finishing up her breakfast, it was about time for her to actually get down to business and try it out. She cleaned up her dishes and placed them in the sink for her to do later with the frying pan and spatula. She wasn’t going anywhere today, so housework was definitely going to be on the menu later. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Nali had moved about the house pretty easily and knew that there was a box of candles in the lower part of the kitchen cabinet under the sink. A few would do for what she was going to need them for. Walking out onto the back deck, she placed them about the area. One on top of a create. Another on the banister. One on the floor and another on a chair. Four sounded like a really good number to start out with. She took a few steps back and looked over the placement of them. The rain continued to come down and the lightning continued to flash but that wouldn’t stop her. For a moment, she pretended that each candle would be a target. Each candle was someone that she had to distract in some way so a fellow shinobi could come in from the side. It was time to get this moving. She had studied the technique. Practiced the hand seals and knew word for word what was supposed to happen. Now it was time to make it happen. Hopefully. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Closing her eyes for a moment, Nali calmed herself down and took a deep breath. The rhythm of the rain helped to sooth her into a more peaceful state of mind for learning a new jutsu. She parted her legs slightly and though none of this was truly needed for her to do the jutsu, it helped to create a good learning environment for her and that’s all that really mattered. This place was also ideal for her to train in. It was quiet and the only person that would come about would have been O really. If he ever wanted to leave the Fuma’s place that is. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Opening her eyes, she centered her concentration in the mid point between all the candles. In one fluid motion, she began the set of six seals. Rat → Tiger → Dog → Ox → Rabbit → Tiger. She could feel the chakra that she was concentrating on begin to churn and bringing her fingers to her lips, she parted her lips in full anticipation of some sort of fireball to come out. But nothing came forward except for a stream of smoke from her lips. The smoke rolled up the center of her lips and up between her eyes causing her to go cross eyed while looking at it. Exhaling completely, she pressed her lips together a moment and gave a nod. “Ok. That was better than nothing. Where there’s smoke, there’s normally a BBQ but in this case, I’m looking for fire. So let’s have it Zombie girl.” Centering herself once more, she looked to the candles and took a deep breath. “Ok. We got this.” She said to herself. Not knowing who the ‘we’ was but she knew that she was the only one in the house. Perhaps it was the fact of O’s father being in the vicinity and she could actually feel the death radiating from his decaying corpse. Though not an unpleasant feel for her, it was a bit on the distracting side. But she’d just have to get over it. Not all working conditions were ideal and this was about as good as she was going to get. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Her eyes were focused on the candles while her hands were in front of her once more. One more breath in and on the exhale, she began by forming the six seals that she had drilled into her mind. Rat → Tiger → Dog → Ox → Rabbit → Tiger. Once again, she felt the chakra churning in her stomach and collecting like it was supposed to. This was the center ‘furnace’ for Fire Nature related jutsu and she knew this. All that she needed to do now was just bring the fire from her belly and out of her mouth. Bringing her fingers of her left hand up to the side of her lips, she parted her lips and began to blow outward only for a single ‘poof’ of flame to come from her lips then more smoke to roll from her nose as if she were a dragon rather than a woman. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">She closed her lips and pressed them to the side of her mouth while she tried to figure out why this wasn’t working for her. “I made the hand seals. The chakra’s churning. That should be the fire starter right there! Not like I can take a match to my lips and just expect the chakra to light on it’s own. That’s not how it works, I’m very sure of it.” There was another deep breath taken and she let it out a bit on the rougher side. “Dun get upset over this. We got this. It’s just a fire jutsu. Nothing more. Genin are able to do this jutsu. There’s no reason that you can’t.” She said as she was trying to give herself a pep talk. Her eyes focused on the candles that were in front of her. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Her hands came together once more and without any waiting or hesitation, she ran through the hand seals as if they were nothing. Her eyes completely focused on the candles before her as the lighting flashed brightly in the sky and her ears were overtaken by the very loud crashing of thunder. It was as if the storm that brewed over head was sharing in her frustrations. Feeling the chakra kneading in her stomach once more, she took in a deep breath this time. Placing her left hand to cup around her mouth, she parted her lips and blew out hard. From her lips came three fireballs with absolutely no direction to them. Just having produced the fireballs that she had been trying for, she jumped up and down in excitement. “I did it!” She said while she clapped her hands and started shaking her rear about in a victory dance that would scare small children and most adults. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Shaking her rear about a bit more, she took a deep breath and furrowed her brows a bit. *Sniff.* *Sniff. Sniff* “Ok. I know that I was blowing smoke before but it shouldn’t still be lingering like this.” Her eyes looked about a moment expecting to see one of the candles lit and just smoking due to being old. What she had seen instead was something on fire alright. One of the pillows on the wooden bench had caught on fire from her little victory and with age, the fabric and stuffing was going up fast. “Oh SHIT! Shit! Shit! Shit..shit..shit..shit…” Running to the pillow, she tried to just pull it off and found resistance to it. Her gaze hit the back side of the pillow to find the two strings that no one could ever just tie, in the typical knot. Growling to herself, Nali quickly formed the seals for the chakra scalpel and cut away at the ties. Not just one but three were in this flaming beast of a pillow that was quickly causing her face to roll with beads of sweat like she had just stepped out of the rain and onto the deck. Without hesitation, Nali threw it off the deck into the back where the rain could soak the fibers and put out the small blaze that her pyro self had started. She leaned over the banister and looked down at the pillow with the scorch mark on it now. Pressing her lips together, she thought a moment. “Maybe I can buy new pillows for the deck here. If I can get O home long enough, perhaps some renovations may be in order. Like a non flammable place perhaps.” She made a ‘eesh’ face and took off her bunny slippers. This was going to have to continue outside. She wouldn’t take the chance to set more fires to O’s house. At least, not without him that was. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Stepping outside, the clouds didn’t hesitate to start pelting her with their little droplets of water causing her pajamas and hair to begin to mat down to her form. But this wasn’t about the rain, it was about her learning this jutsu without burning down O’s house and her being in some deep shit for that. She could hear the ‘tiss. tiss.’ from the water hitting the fire on the pillow and slowly putting it out. With everything wet out here, she couldn’t set something on fire now. All she could do is create a lot of steam. Instant facial. She could live with that. Looking out to the rain soaked trees before her, she pushed her wet bangs from her face before she quickly made the six hand seals. Rat → Tiger → Dog → Ox → Rabbit → Tiger. Taking a deep breath, she placed the first two fingers of her left hand around her lips slightly and exhaled. From her lips came now five fireballs and her eyes narrowed on them as they flew. She’d try and will them to come together to a central point, but that was not how things went. Instead they scattered. All that is, but one. The one went to a central place that she had been focusing on before it sizzled out like the others. This gave Nali a bit of hope while the rain continued to come pelting down upon her. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">She ran her fingers through her hair, pushing it back from her face and using the water to keep it back from her face. Again she made the seals and again she was able to produce little fireballs. But like the last time, they all went the directions that they wanted to and now where she wanted them to. Frustration started to kick in and she growled kicking at the wet grass and stomping in the muddy ground. “You can rebuild cells in the body! Cause the human body to heal! Summon wraiths! Extract poisons from people! But can’t control small little fireballs!!” She yelled before picking up a rock and throwing it into the woods that were behind the yard with a scream of anger. “That’s it! I’m going back to bed! Fuck this shit!” Storming back up the few steps to get onto the back deck, Nali didn’t bother to look up. That was until she saw a flickering light from the corner of her eye. Thinking it was another fire, she quickly looked up with a start. Upon doing so, the anger melted from her face and a small smile tugged at the corner of her lips.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">There before her, four little candles were lit and shining brightly.