Shinobi Salon [Open]

As soon as the hand sign is made Mitsu frantically tosses the Kunai towards Travin detonating it behind him before it even reaches him. Just as he sets it off a wall of blue chakra engulfs their vision and the world goes grey.

He tries to look around through the mist with his byakugan but can see nothing only a haze filling his vision. He panics, fearful he's lost it. He isn't sure if the moisture on his skin is sweat or the mist itself. When Travin emerged from the mist however standing before him he almost gives in. But he steels himself. Breathing deep and holding his katana in both hands. The byakugan can see through any justu. Any justu except Genjutsu. He shouts to his team "IT'S FAKE!" hoping his voice would reach them even if they were in their own. However he... could not really do much else. He had no way out of the jutsu and among the three of them he knew he was not the main target that was likely kikuko as the more experienced one. So he stayed and breathed. His panic settled into a calm. He kept his byakugan active hoping for any sign of the real world or when it might come back to him.

"Yknow this one was kind of a dick move" He says to the illusory ninja in front of him. Though he considered it a lesson in and of itself. A lesson of learning actual protective techniques and that you can't just solve any problem with a sword. He makes a note to learn Genjutsu release the next time he has a chance. He does not move from his spot however, his sword still in his hands and his body ready to react should something come his way.

Shit n Maths:

Hiroyuki was heading behind the man, when suddenly he heard Mr. Rentai speaking, saying something about a devouring mist, before his vision was suddenly clouded with mist that showed up quite quickly. He immediately instructed the butterfly woman carrying him to go backwards, away from the mist, but it seemed that the mist was everywhere, making them really sluggish. As they zoomed backwards at a fairly slow speed, Hiroyuki gripped his hand, checking his grip strength, making sure that his strength was not sapped. It seemed that whatever this mist was, it was sapping his speed and scrambling his chakra network. He could not really figure out what was going on, but they were suddenly flying back. As they flew back, he could hear other people there simply chatting, various people saying things and commenting about the spar, and that they were all doing a decent job, but not sure what the people were doing. 

Hiroyuki was a bit knowledgeable, and soon figured out that this was probably a genjutsu. He would not have figured it out if there was not a peanut gallery watching their spar, and he tried to keep backing up until he was out of the mist, but to no avail. He could not think of any other reason that the people would be simply chatting normally when they could not see and their movements were so bogged down, but some of the people were doing just that. Hiroyuki had no real way of undoing a genjutsu currently, so he could only sit there and protect himself, although he was super slow at the moment. He sighed, thinking that this was a bit too difficult for him to deal with currently, but there would be a chance for him to break out of this in the future. Currently though, he was not quite dispirited, but simply turned to look at the butterfly. 

“Darn, whatever this jutsu is, it’s essentially taking me out of the fight. It’s hard to even move around. I think we’re just going to have to defend and wait whatever this is out.” Hiroyuki would say quietly to the butterfly over his shoulder, before having the butterfly fly him upwards a little more, so now they had a full field of movement. He could not really see anything, so that was pretty useless, and so he simply closed his eyes and listened for anything coming their way.
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Travin watched Mitsu throw the kunai past him figuring that it would be another exploding one he took 2 steps back to create a 2-meter distance between himself and the kunai, as the genjutsu took effect on both Mitsu and Hiroyuki. However, through his chakra vision, he noticed that Kikuko had dodged and the seal on her hand was absorbing the chakra from the jutsu and sending it to her other hand. A pair of jutsu he had seen before a few friends of his had those seals as well. 


Taking a deep breath Travins placed himself within a genjutsu, as he knew that once the first seal had taken in enough chakra the other would blast out a wave of chakra. Dropping his Ninjato tip first into the ground so it would stand up for him to grab once more. Travin went into a series of handseals Rat, Boar, Dog, Tiger, Rat, as he was running through his handseals the paper bomb on the kunai exploded. Throwing up a dust cloud between Travin his current threat Kikuko. 


“It fake” is all Mitsu had time to yell out before a small invisible disk hooked onto his chest and pulled him off his feet and in front of Travin who took a few more steps back away from Mitsu. Creating a solid 6-meter distance between the two, as Kikuko’s blast was fired. Travins jutsu would let go of Mitsu 1 meter in the air dropping him directly in front of the blast. Mitsu’s body would be hit by the blast before ever touching the ground if he is unable to either resist the jutsu or find a counter. Either way, Travin would maintain his concentration on the fight. 

Even with all of his experience in the VR training room he still couldn’t get over how real it all felt. He also wasn’t sure if others would be able to separate the VR from real life, which made him wonder how they would react to seeing their alley taken down by their own blast.


(WC-342 TWC-2859)


jutsu
S/T Mass pull power and speed 117 (its what is pulling Mitsu into the air and dropping on the blast)



AP=717 (refunded Bull Rush due to timeline it never happened)
-5 Seigan
-25 Demonic Illusion Phantom Fog Prison upkeep
-40 Seigan Upwelling
-40 S/T Mass pull
=607

As Daiko sat, he noticed something interesting. It seemed like there was some sort of mist forming around the opponents or something to that effect. Before he had time to really study what was going on, he noticed that there was a strange death tendril heading his way. Widening his eyes, Daiko stands up quickly and goes at the chain with a mighty 5 power karate chop. This did essentially nothing, but upon touching it, it had seemed like the mist disappeared. When he was touched, he felt a small surge in his chakra, and he assumed that it must've been some sort of genjutsu release. It was very interesting to note, it seemed like the other strong ninja, the man capable of beating 3 teenage girls genin, was a user of Genjutsu. Daiko would keep this note in his mind for later. It's always good to know what kind of techniques to expect, especially considering Daiko's time stayed in Kiri was only really out of the kindness of the Mizukage's heart. 

Watching the chain whip back to the person he now knew as Keita, Daiko shuffled back over, only now taking notice of Saya. He waved to her and looked at this stranger, who seemed to be getting attacked by Sayatria's Secret Ninja Art: Talk no Jutsu. Scratching his chin for a moment, Daiko looks at the whiteboard. Ah, this looked like it was talking about Fuuinjutsu. Daiko didn't have much interest in learning it himself, but he noticed that Saya seemed to be taking a break and actually absorbing the information. Daiko wanted to at some point learn a few things from this man, though he wasn't entirely sure WHAT he had to offer. All Daiko could do for the moment truthfully, was use a single lightning jutsu, and a small handful of Earth Techniques. That actually reminded him of something. "Yo, Saya. Whenever you're done checking this out. I found out a really cool way to use earth." Daiko nodded his head, and then went full Pinoch mode explaining the jutsu he had in mind. "So, basically, you do some fancy hand-seal nonsense, and then you actually create little stalagmites and stuff that can stab and stuff. That's about all I know. But I mean, I feel like if we work together we can figure this jutsu out pretty fast."

Daiko nods for a second and then looks over at Keita. "I was also trying to figure out a technique that was similar to Shadow Clones... Except maybe with a different chakra nature." Daiko shrugged, having read a few books on Shadow Clones somewhere in the library, though never taking the time to look too deep into it. Daiko assumed that having clones that ran around doing the user's bidding would be pretty cool, but it seemed like it would be a waste of space. Daiko wondered if there was some sort of clones that could be made out of rock or lightning, that might have some cool effects about them. 

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OOC Saya and Keita:

Her eyes continued to dart from the board to the fight, and back between kieta and Daiko. Her mind spun as she synthesized information far faster than she should have, seal formulas and writing methodology sinking deeply into her understanding. Fuin seemed fairly easy when she considered. It was just like her ninjutsu, except instead of moving her hands in odd ways, she just drew. Saya liked to draw sometimes. Her pictures never made it to the fridge back home, but just last week Ai took a picture of a tulip she'd drawn while only half paying attention to another of pinochio's lectures and put it on the fridge. That was good enough. 

"Right right. Chakra natures were pretty easy honestly. Water and earth just like. made sense? Wood style took a little bit because I had to understand the proper ratio of combination in order to get it to peak performance. That took me an entire hour and a half. I was soooo annoyed. But then lightning. I dunno. Lightning just kinda felt like a really chaotic water style so I picked it up easily enough. " She zoned out for a moment, staring only at the board in front of her again. Then with a shrug she continued. 

"Got it. Now I just need to understand the actual phyical aplication, hey. Do you think I could use fuinjutsu to create a visual connection between myself and another point? Like a securty camera but ninja magic. " She'd offered the suggestion to Kiku, and they'd agreed to take time at some point to actually work on the concept, but This Keita Uzumaki fellow felt powerful. Maybe he'd already figured out how to do what she wanted so badly? Her focus on trying to create that which she'd only just learned shifted as Daiko began speaking to her more directly. Once again her eyes could be seen shifting at high speed back and forth between everything going on, mental partitioning allowing her to take in the scene from multiple angles. 

"I'm just finishing memorization of the information on the board, but you know I can do more than one thing at a time so lay it on me." If she were being honest, she'd been neglecting her earth style in training. If she were truely being honest, she'd been neglecting all of her basic chakra natures in training. Wood style was so inate to her style that she hadn't learned much outside of it in weeks. maybe ths would be a good opportunity?

"hmm. Stabby stalagmites huh? You mean like rock pillar spears? We learned that forever ago Daiko, did you find some new way to use it?" Had he really forgotten that jutsu already? This seemed odd to the tiny terror. 

"he's talking about earth flow spears Tria. Please pay more attention. He didn't say anything about them MOVING only their formation. That's a completely different thing." From across the way, safely nestled at the edge of the combat arena watching what went on, Pinochio yelled out, explaining what she should have never forgotten. "And as for shadow clones with natures, You have knowlege with that one too. " 

"OH. Right. " Almost too casually she'd form the seals; Tiger. Dog. Snake.Dragon. Boar. Ai, who had stepped up to stand beside their friend followed suit, shifting her hands into seals with intention. From the puppet's body a flow of mokuton poured out to the ground between them, raising up and forming into a perfect copy of the puppet. For any used to the puppeteers trickery, it would make sense. Of course Ai could do ninjutsu. Why couldn't she, but to any who had written team puppet off as just wooden constructs, watching a puppet create a clone would be an odd sight indeed. 

"Did you mean like this Dai?" It was almost too casual, the way Ai placed a hand on their wood clone's shoulder to emphasize the technique he'd been looking to learn. 

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Keita watched on, glancing at the fight every now and then, although he was definitely paying attention to it, he was more focused on teaching the people that were coming towards him to learn. The girl Saya started speaking about how she had learned water, earth, and wood style fairly easily, which Keita nodded, as it was good to have capable people in the village, and this young woman seemed to be it, although a bit too eccentric for Keita’s usual perceptions about what a shinobi should be. She did say that lightning was quite weird, but likened it to chaotic water, and in essence, Keita supposed that was pretty much what lightning nature was. The energy that made up lightning was almost in a liquid type state, but it was far more rigid in where it could move through the world, and would simply follow a set path forming a current between point a and point b. 

The explanation was a bit strange, but could be construed as correct through a different lens, and so Keita simply nodded towards the girl’s explanation. She then asked if fuuinjutsu could create a visual connection between herself and another point, to which Keita thought for a brief moment. He had not done anything of the sort, but it seemed like it would be a good application, although he felt like it would be really efficient if she put it on her puppet so that she could see out of the puppet’s body. Maybe that was exactly what she was going to use it for, but Keita immediately started writing on another chalkboard different sealing formulae and ideas out as mathematical equations as well. He was really swift, but he had thought about two different ways you could do it. 

“The idea is feasible enough, and you could probably get away with it using only a little bit of study. Fuuinjutsu by itself would probably not lend itself well to that, as it is simply the art of sealing and unsealing. With that being said, it is a great utility in combining with other fields of expertise. I can see you using one of two ways, the first being studying a bit of the sensory abilities of the sensory ninja of the village, and sealing a sensory application into the seal directly so that you could activate it remotely. The other would be studying space and time, which seems to have picked up in popularity as of late, and use two different seals to open a portal, or window, between them, which would allow you to simply look around from the first seal to the second.” Keita would calmly talk about his theories on it, hopefully giving some inspiration to the young woman. 

That was when the other person, Daiko, had decided to chim in, stating that he had ffound a cool way to use earth jutsu, which Keita was intrigued about. He liked seeing how the younger people utilized their jutsu, as they were usually really creative, which was lost on adults quite frequently. Then Keita immediately lost interest at the young man’s description of the technique and simply saying that you could grow stalagmites to stab things. This was not quite a new way to use earth, as it seemed pretty standard and uninspiring, but Keita would not comment on it or change his normal smiling face at the situation, as these small things could lead to big things overall, so he would not judge the young man yet. He then went on to say that he wanted to figure out how to make shadow clones out of other chakra natures, preferably earth or lightning. Keita knew how to do so, and would start his lecture using the same chalkboard with the basic fuuinjutsu on it. 

This was after saya showed her prowess in the Wood Clone technique, which formed out of the wood on her puppet and took the appearance of the puppet. Fairly odd, but it was also good, however she did not share the fundamentals on how it was made, and seemed to simply and casually do so as if to show off, although he wasn’t sure if that was her intent. Keita decided to start explaining things himself instead. “So, young Daiko, I am assuming you know how to use the Shadow Clone technique, so to make a natured one is a bit of practice, and having to know the properties of your element. For solid elemental natures such as water, earth, or in Ms. Saya’s case, Wood, you can form the body of the clone with the element while layering the shadow clone technique into it as it’s forming, which simply takes practice. For less solid elements, such as lightning, you must learn how to form a shadow clone slower than it normally would come out, and suffuse the entire technique with a large amount of the element itself, molding it to mix the two chakra natures together. I hoped this would help, but the only thing you can do is practice, but I’ll show you how to form a lightning clone once, so pay attention.”

Keita would explain calmly and slowly for everyone involved who wanted to learn, and would slowly form the hand seals of tiger, ram, dog, and then tiger, opting to use less of his chakra to form a single clone instead of multiple. The clone fairly quickly formed out of the lightning chakra, and quickly took the shape and appearance of Keita. Sadly this jutsu was learned from someone else and had a huge flaw, which was that the clone was tinted in a blue shade of color, so everyone would immediately know that it was not the real user, but this was not a bit problem, as it could still do everything a normal shadow clone could, just not useful for deception. The clone would stay there for a bit in case Daiko wanted to study it, before Keita would look back to the spar and notice something amiss. Mr. Rentei was using quite a few resources on the three genin that seemed far more serious than a normal spar, and it seemed Keita would have to remind him what a training spar actually was. He thought this before loudly talking towards the sparring grounds. 

“Mr. Rentei, it is not quite in good taste to use a technique that lowers their combat capability in addition to one that increases your own in what should be a friendly teaching spar. The teacher should also be observing and calling out their mistakes and how to correct them for the future, so they could evolve during the spar. Currently it seems you are simply bullying them with your more robust experience, and they aren’t actually learning anything from you directly.” Keita would project this, wondering what his actual plan is, or if he was simply not used to teaching others. It seemed like he was simply fighting them like one would fight a small group of bandits. He was not going for any really damaging things, at least he was not when Keita said this, but as he was thinking this, the man would attempt to use a space time pulling technique to make a genin hit his own explosion. If this actually worked and the genin was hit, Keita would have to call the whole spar off, as at this point no one was learning anything and it would indeed be pointless for it to continue as it was.

Luckily this whole room from the point they stepped in was controlled by the virtual reality fuuinjutsu seal that was placed here, and none of them were actually moving around, but still. Keita had set it up so that the only time they were actually moving around was when they got up to go eat and drink, since they might be there a while, he did not want them to be really hungry after the training.
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Mitsu in the fog of the genjutsu, knowing it was a genjutsu even, could still do nothing about it. The fog and the water sapping from his speed just enough that even with Kikuko's warning shout giving him the alert he could not run fast enough. The next thing he knew he felt his body shift and reorient in the air. He panics, confused and not knowing what is going on. He swings wild, trying desperately to strike out at something but hitting nothing but the air. It's then he feels it.

Its at moments like this that having intimate knowledge and control of your tenketsu can be a bad thing, because in times like this is when Mitsu could feel the pain more intimately than any other. As it impacted his back, breaking past is armor, every node and every vessel of chakra in his body being lanced through by the blast and feeling every single piece of it. Even if it were only a simulation, even if it were fake, even with all that he knew he could not tell his body the pain was not real.

Mitsu goes limp in the grip of the mass pull, sent from 200 down to 25 in less than a second putting Mitsu down for the count. His system a wreck thinking things had gone wrong even when he knows he's fine. The pain remains. Pain too much too stand and pain too much to think. If it weren't a false image would leave the young man down for much longer than simply the simulation.

[Mitsu is fucking OUT]

[TWC: 2150]

Hiroyuki was still sort of stuck in this strange jutsu that made him feel extremely sluggish, and he was simply hearing the fight continuing on, but because of the damned mist, there was nothing much that he could do. Even if MR. Rentei was right in front of him, he could not attack the man in any capacity, so he was simply listening with his arms crossed over his chest, getting ready to block and take any damage to his forearms instead of his body, although he had no idea what he should do in this situation. He was simply a fish in a barrel at the moment because of the adverse situation he was in. He would be completely useless if this butterfly behind him was not carrying him around. 

Hiroyuki simply sighed, knowing that he could not really do anything to help his team, but this just ignited his desire to get stronger, but for now he simply told the butterfly to put him down. He felt like maybe a spar was not for him currently, especially since his opponent was a really bad match up, and so Hiroyuki would just slowly and sluggishly make his way towards one of the chairs he had seen before, and simply sat in it. He was feeling pretty dejected, and could only put on a sad face, not being able to even participate in the spar he was so excited to join. 
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