Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-30271674-20161029053444

Pavor: Everything was like clockwork in this village, the soldier rose at dawn and headed out to instill peace in the surrounding lands, the workers went about making their due business, providing commerce and trade for the village to ensure its survival. This village was a machine and if one little cog fell from its place then it could potentially upset everything and cause it all to fail. Maybe one day, but for now such conspiracies could only be lain as framework while Ieyasu grew stronger day by day so he could at one point conquer what he needed. That began with Konoha’s local library, where Ieyasu could be found stalking through the narrow corridors of shelves that held the vast knowledge of many things and some of which helped for shinobi such as Ieyasu himself. His fervid gaze quickly passed through each near section before he walked out and into the reading area. Just ahead was a small desk where a woman in her mid-40s was sitting about. Ieyasu slowly walked up to her, laying one of his large hands on the desk itself before stating clear and loud in a voice that commandeered respect, “I need a scroll regarding earth-style ninjutsu. Tell me where to find one.” The librarian looked up with a questionable expression on her face as she wondered just who was talking to her like this. Ieyasu looked around before letting out a chuckle and turning back to put her down, “I’m sorry, do I need to repeat myself?” Ieyasu’s grip tightened on the desk, little fracture lines appeared and tiny little snaps complementing it too. His aggressive nature was enough to upset this lady, every ninja in this damned village had a problem but it was something else for them to just outright act with such malice. She took a deep breath before standing up and clearing her throat, “If you’ll follow me, I can show you what we have in stock right now.” She came from around the desk and lead Ieyasu some rows over where he had originally been. The librarian eventually came across a few scrolls. The one Ieyasu picked however was the last that was currently in right now labeled, “Earth Release: B-C Rank Offensive and Supplementary Techniques” He looked at it before jesting at the librarian, “Why thank you, now I’ll be taking this.” The librarian gave pause as if to speak but Ieyasu was already turned around and heading out from the library. If he were to spot Shinra within this time frame, Ieyasu would stop the young boy and question him, “Hey Shinra, you have Earth Release right?” Given Shinra were to say yes in any manner, Ieyasu would continue further on and go on to propose, “If you’re out for a day of training then follow me. This here scroll,” he’d make a gesture with the scroll he was holding, “has a list of things I’m sure you and I could divulge in and perhaps find something useful to the both of us.” After all was said and done and Shinra were to agree, then Ieyasu would lead his training mate off and out of Konoha and search for one of the many training grounds which dotted the forested landscape.

Andikins: {SK} Early in the morning Shinra had woken up and gotten himself dressed. Why was a young shinobi up so early? It was stock day for his tools. A selective day that he hated himself for making up. Shinra was in his workshop, not working on any new invention, but working on all the unravelled scrolls on his workbench. Behind him was a pile of tools that he reached back, plucked one from and put it on a scroll to use the sealing technique on. Every so often he did this to take inventory and see if any tool was below the threshhold for needing to be repurchased to stock up his ammunition. Granted that scrolls like these held hundreds of weaponry, Shinra still liked to be prepared. This went on from before dawn until right before noon. Once the pile of tools was a puddle of senbon and kunai, Shinra deposited them away into his scrolls and went to the kitchen to get a bowl of rice with some seared chicken on top of it, and some delicious soy suace. After finishing his meal and getting completely dressed and outfited with his weaponry, Shinra was off to the streets to find something to do. With no sensei to train him, he thought the best thing to do would be to visit the library. It was the best place to expand one's mind and learn something new. As chance would have it, Shinra got ejected from the doorway when it swung open as he approached the library's entrance. The culprit behind the physical comedy was Ieyasu Akimichi, the expando ninja that Shinra had fought the other day. Picking himself up and dusting himself off, SHinra spoke to the fellow ninja, "Oh hello Ieyasu. I am indeed an earth jutsu user. It's about all I can do." He listened to what Ieyasu had said that the scroll he had was and perked up a little bit. "Sure! Sounds like a time and a half." He followed the expanding ninja all the way to the training ground of his choice where they would find themselves conversing again, "So what's in the scroll? Just one elaborate jutsu or a bunch of them?" He asked a little curious because he had yet to get permission to take scrolls out of the library. {SK}Pavor: Around the time that the duo had begun nearing an empty training ground, a simple question rose up regarding what contents were within the scroll. Ieyasu began to move the scroll about, opening it up a little to see the table of contents, making note of the incredibly long list in a small font that seemed to further extend into the scroll. “There’s a lot in here, mainly stuff you can use against someone else. Looks like there’s more than just that kind though.” The Akimichi boy said this as he turned down a pathway leading to a small opening within the forest that was perfect for any sort of training. He drew near the center before sitting and beginning to read through the scroll. It was rather large for its size, as it included more than just instructions on this list of techniques. Tips, suggestions; etc. that held more to the subject matter and provided better versatility to those who were learning. Ieyasu’s eyes lit up in interest as he went through the scroll, stopping on a page titled ‘Earth Release: Earth Spear’. Quickly, he began to read through it as to how to use it and what exactly it helped. Each passing word seemed to build more and more interest, it was a wonderful technique for an Akimichi such as himself. He quickly backed up and sat down, allowing Shinra to start going through the scroll himself to see if anything intrigued him. “This looks great, I think you’ll find something that you like as well.” Ieyasu smiled as he put his hands together, forming the Snake seal before losing himself within his very own thoughts. He began to create the Earth chakra he thought necessary for this technique, letting it spread throughout his body and onto his skin before attempting to further manipulate it. The book in question stated and gave visual to what it would look like in the end. Quickly his state of mind was disrupted as he felt something begin to build up on top of different parts of his body, little rocks. Shocked by his immediate failure, he began to quickly take the rocks off of his body and stopped to ponder on where he went wrong. He did what he usually would with his Yang chakra for the Akimichi techniques, yet it didn’t work at all like he wanted it to. This meant a quick interruption on Ieyasu’s behalf getting back up and getting the scroll back once Shinra had finished browsing through it.

Andikins: {SK} Shinra listened to what Ieyasu said and was more than eager to see what was inside the scroll. When it was laid on the groumnd and the Akimichi got first dibs on what to pick for a jutsu, Shinra went skimming through. He wasn't looking for anything too serious, but one name caught his attention. "Earth Flow Wave. So it's like making the earth move like water?" He asked alloud, looking at the passage to see what was meant by the jutsu. As he continued reading his eyes seemed to light up. "This sounds really good, and it could make using other jutsus so much easier! Ieyasu, check this out." He commented as he held up the passage. "I can surf off of the earth with this. And it will always remain under me. Even if I jump it will dip down then rise back up to catch me." He commented as he set the scroll down, crossing his legs and folding his hands in his lap in a Buddhist meditative stance by creating a circular bowl with his index fingers and thumbs for the rim and forming a ribcage with his remaining fingers. It was the pose he struck up when he needed to calm down and meditate, gather his chakra, and focus on the thought and then shape of what he wanted to do. This was how he came up with his own methods and unqieu styles of earth jutsu. Just a minute or two and he could test it out. {SK}

Pavor: Ieyasu listened to Shinra as he rolled back to the section concerning Earth Spear. He re-read the entry on the jutsu, stopping on the second paragraph where it stated ‘Because this jutsu gives your bodies the properties of the Earth…’ A connection was made after Ieyasu began to realize why that specific instance strangely stuck out to him. Although simple, yet not so obvious to him, Ieyasu failed to take note of the fact that this was an element and not so much of an intangible essence as the vitae he produced when using Yang Release. He didn’t become the Yang chakra when he used this technique, he simply let it flow through and enhance his body. With changing your body using an element, you didn’t want to become the element itself rather you’d want to have its properties imbued into you. Realizing this, Ieyasu clambered back over to where he had been sitting at before considering this new facet of knowledge that was beginning to open up to him and would furthermore help in his endeavor to learn this jutsu. His mind began to scan over, thinking of both the description of the jutsu and how it mimicked the hardest materials of this Earth. Regarding what Shinra last said, Ieyasu gave to a late response, “That does sound interesting, my own jutsu that I’m learning will be pretty powerful. My skin turns black and hard like stone, it amplifies my power while also making it harder to hurt me. Should be pretty helpful on future missions.” With those final words, Ieyasu slowly drew in his breath and became still while his mind pondered upon things of before. Just how powerful could he make himself with this jutsu, and were there more jutsu like this to further enhance his Akimichi techniques and the raw power he already held to himself?

Andikins: {SK} Shinra sat up from his position, listening to Ieyasu's words half-heartedly as he focused on the handseals, Rat Snake Tiger. He then focused chakra to his feet and shut his eyes, trying to tell the earth to move for him. What came next was a large conical pillar from beneath Shinra, launching him up into the air and into the treeline. One could hear branches straining and snapping, along with the broken speech of someone hitting each branch on the way down. Then came the thud of someone hitting the ground and an expletive. Shinra came stumbling from the inside of the forest, picking twigs and leaves out of his hair and rubbing his head. "So you can turn yourself into stone. And I get a technique that sends me flying further than my normal explosives." He made a dry comment as he compared his new technique to what he was well known for in the village, blowing things up. {SK}

Pavor: A small snicker came from Ieyasu as he watched his friend get sent flying into the air and crashing back down. “So, what exactly you intend on using this surfing technique for? Does it do anything than just that or…?” Ieyasu asked with some curiosity, he never really talked to people a lot and as a shinobi fighting only seemed like the only relevant thing to talk about these days when the world was slowly becoming more corrupted. While awaiting a response from Shinra, Ieyasu would begin to apply what he had learned thus far into his next attempt. Stones… he began to think of their resilience while Earth chakra began to build up in his system. Their rough texture, how dull and ancient they truly were; the foundations they were in the building of houses. The properties of the complex hardiness he aimed for kept cycling through his thoughts while he let his chakra build over his being and cover him like a new layer of skin. It intermingled with every fiber of his being, from the hair on his head to the raw muscle compacted under the gluttonous blubber he had. He opened his eyes and immediately took notice of how his skin appeared to be rigid and coarse, gray like the very cobble which people walked on in town. He slowly moved his hand and knocked it against his knee, hearing a distinct rapping as though he was clinking an actual rock against the other. He understood that something of it was already off, but was curious to see if he was at least somewhat close to what he had in mind. Taking out one of his kunai, Ieyasu prepared to test out his hide by rolling up the sleeve of his forearms. He attempted lightly cutting into his own arm but found it of no use. He started wondering how best to crack into something like this before an idea came to mind, quickly he brought his kunai overhead before slamming it into his forearm. A swift crack could be heard and he cried out slightly as the kunai dug half an inch deep into his forearm. Quickly he pulled it out, now understanding that if something like that were to happen in battle his life would be over. IT was helpful, but Ieyasu knew that with enough time spent on this jutsu he wouldn’t have to worry for such compromises in his body’s integrity.

Andikins: {SK} Coughing as Ieyasu spoke to him, Shinra bent over and spit up a couple of leaves. He then stood up with his tongue hanging out of his mouth and a grimmace on his face, wiping his tongue against his sleeve to get the taste off, "Blech." Once the bitter taste was off his tongue, Shinra looked at Ieyasu, "Well it can be used to attack people. Like if you were to kick your leg, it would speed up and shove its way into someone. But if I can speed it up, I can shoot things from my scroll while riding the wave. That way I can remain mobile and remain in the air with a means of defense if they got close to me. My chakra blades can only do so much on their own. Is there a technique to use with chakra metal?" He asked while Ieyasu attempted to cut his own arm and found no blood being drawn. At least progress was being made for someone. SHinra formed the handseals for the technique again and focused, "Let's start small then." He focused enough to be lifted off the ground, and then he took a step upwards, the earth moving to push his foot up instead of his foot lifting up. It was an alien feeling, and Shinra lost his balance, falling backwards and thudding against the ground again. "Bugger." {SK}

Pavor: Ieyasu grabbed at his arm, covering the bleeding stab wound with his own hand and applying pressure. Making sure his jacket didn’t get stained, he didn’t roll back down his sleeves while the effects of the incomplete technique started to wear off. A little gasp of pain came from Ieyasu, after training with this he’d need to definitely check by his house to get a bandage and more onto the little test sites he made to understand what he was doing wrong. It had to be the material he was thinking of which was wrong that led to this 2nd failure. “I guess that is helpful,” a brief lull in Ieyasu’s talk as he thought of what Shinra asked, “There has to be. You know that prodigy everyone’s been on about, Keldran Fūma? He’s my friend, and I’ve seen some of his stuff. He can do it, so I guess there is something out there for it. Might find what you’re looking for at the library.” Back to the training at hand, Ieyasu stuck his hand out and tried to think of whatever materials that would more appropriately fit the jutsu and give it the characteristics as thought of before wasting away more of his chakra. In his free hand, Ieyasu took notice of the black kunai he had. It was pretty sturdy and fit the description, so wouldn’t steel be something akin to that? Immediately, he began to put this into action by flowing his chakra straight to his left hand which he currently had sticking out. His hand slowly began to turn dark, but with it also began to grow heavy. This wasn’t too much of an issue for a strong man such as Ieyasu, but it wasn’t expected at all. He sluggishly moved around his hand, slamming it into the ground and feeling a painful reverberation go throughout the transmuted arm. In response Ieyasu immediately cancelled the flow of chakra to his arm and let out a little hiss. He scooted over to the scroll from before, briefly glancing to Shinra to watch the own tribulations he faced with his own technique before looking into the scroll and reading over it to try and find anything in the passage regarding what he experienced. Alas, there was nothing and he simply had to try and think of something even more powerful and destructive than the steel he was sure would be the answer for this.

Andikins: {SK} Shinra sat up and felt around the ground, thinking of what to do. Some of the earth felt softer in some places and exeedingly hard in others. "Keldran? Who doesn't know about him at this point. I'm not a huge fan of that though. I don't want to be a hero like that. I'd rather do something great and not get into the whole celebration thing, unless it's an equal level for what I've done, you know?" He looked over at the Akimichi after saying that, "Hey Ieyasu, you gonna be okay?" He asked as he saw the slight hint of blood on the Akimichi, who was determined to punch the ground with an earth infused arm. Shinra bit the inside of his cheek, not having any idea of what to say to someone so stubborn. He went back to the scroll, looking at what someone was doing with it. They leaned with it rather than using their legs. Shinra stood up and took in a deep breath, "One more try for now." Forming the handseals quickly, Shinra leaned forward and focused chakra to his feet. Earth lifted up and started to push him forward as he leaned, like he was on some sort of automated machine that responded to his body's weight distribution. It wasn't a huge wave, but he could move along the ground without using his legs at least. "Well--it's a start?" {SK}

Pavor: “I’ll be fine,” Ieyasu growled, “I need to test out this technique somehow. Trust me, out there you’ll see a lot more crazy shit.” He let out a deep sigh, he had hit a dead end with what he was doing. Most of his attempts had ended awfully, and he wasn’t sure just where to go from here. The inner workings of Ieyasu’s mind began to try and understand just what was wrong about his approach, watching Shinra in the meantime as he tried to practice his own technique. It was interesting, to watch the eventual evolution of Shinra gaining his own grasp on just what he was doing. Then again he had more experience with earth jutsu, and this surfing technique of his was surely much simpler than Ieyasu’s own. Shinra knew what Earth chakra was like, he understood it. Something of that thought suddenly opened Ieyasu back to the advancement of his knowledge on elemental ninjutsu. This jutsu wasn’t trying to be a mimic of some actual material, it was trying to be the embodiment of the potential of the Earth. To create minerals and materials that would not be destroyed even by the power of planets colliding, the unholy and seismic force which could bring entire civilizations down to their knees. A jutsu like Earth Spear was like the Earth blessing a simple ninja with its tremendous energy and using it in physical form. Ieyasu grinned a little through the pain at this little ‘eureka’ experience he had. It was strangely mind-opening as well, as if elemental ninjutsu was the blessing of some strange gods to shinobi so that they could use it in all these strange ways. It wouldn’t stick and impact with someone like Ieyasu though, he was just a young man and little things like these tended to slide past. In this moment however, Ieyasu could enjoy the fading thoughts. He brought his hands together for one last time and weaved the Snake seal, his breath became still with anticipation. Suddenly, a dark shade began to spread all across Ieyasu’s body as he took the blessing of the earth. It wasn’t jet black like it was said to be in the passages, but that was simply because not enough chakra had been used. A little adjustment here and then Ieyasu could start going to town on this jutsu and cementing his new ability into his arsenal. 