Kosuke Himitsu, the father of Nozomi Himitsu, had trekked out to the Training Grounds with his daughter, leading her to a more secluded wooded area of the grounds. It was time for a review of her skills so far, and he wanted to make sure that she wasn't just neglecting her other skills and talents. She was going to be one of the strongest in this generation of fighters, as he himself was in his, and they didn't need a powerful clan to do so.
"Alright, let's start this one rather simple. I want you to run through all of your mid level Suiton Techniques. Go ahead and draw out that additional reserve of power if you need to. You won't be fighting me today." Kosuke said, crossing his arms. He'd taught her a large portion of them, and had left her to practice through them on her own, only briefly explaining how they worked. Now was the moment that she needed to tap into her knowledge in order to utilize them.
Nozomi nodded, recalling the techniques she'd been shown, and started to demonstrate her usage of them. The first up one would be the Water Clone technique, a very simple one that was only slightly different than the usual clone variant. Although, in using Suiton Chakra in the creation of the clone, it did allow the clone to be made solid, rather than just a copy of something made intangible. The glory of this was that it allowed for her to fight using more of her own fighting skills, which were already immense. Besides, they didn't require chakra to sustain them, just to create, which made them vastly more versatile.
Holding the Tiger seal, Nozomi gathered her Suiton chakra inside of herself, and created a single clone using the technique. The clone gave a thumbs up before Nozomi dismissed it, her chakra flooding back into her. She hadn't necessarily needed to do that, but it was easier for her to start with the technique that didn't really drain her chakra any, so she could continue on with her list at a greater rate of chakra, hopefully not requiring that she access her hidden reserves of stamina.
One down, a few more to go, although she knew she'd end up having to do much more than just Suiton jutsu before the end of this. Walking over to a small stream, Nozomi stepped inside of the slow moving water, moving deeper until she could submerge herself in the water fully, and then seemed to vanish from sight from everyone else. By flowing Suiton Chakra around her, she was able to camouflage herself completely, and almost seem to merge with the water. In Kiri, this was a useful technique, as water was readily available almost everywhere, and she wouldn't need to worry too much about ever having to make a source of water to hide in. Of course, it wasn't without it's drawbacks, Kosuke had told her that she was still able to be targetted, plus she was much slower than she should be in order to maintain the disguise. Besides that, she couldn't breathe water, and would need to eventually resurface, but buying a Rebreather might help her deal with that issue. It wasn't too big a deal, she was an up close and personal fighter anyhow, so hiding in water didn't help her fight any closer.
Emerging from the water, Nozomi didn't mind that she was now soaked through, as it was cool and refreshing after their hike there anyhow. Kosuke nodded his approval of her techniques so far, but didn't say anything as he wanted her to continue on. Nozomi ran through three different seals, to demonstrate the use of the Water Whip technique, using the water that was currently dripping off her as the catalyst for the technique rather than her own Suiton Chakra. Of course, her chakra was necessary to hold the water together in the form of the whip, but the primary purpose had been to assist in her drying off a bit. She cracked the whip around a couple of times, but she wasn't much of a whip user, so it was mostly for show. Eventually, she'd need to learn how to actually use one of them effectively, or she'd have someone show her a technique that could manipulate the whip any way she wanted it to be moved without her actually having to whip it around. Releasing the technique, the water fell to the ground harmlessly.
Next up was the Starch Syrup Capturing Field. Nozomi turned so that she wasn't aiming directly at her father, and once again began kneading the chakra inside her, adding a little bit of stickiness and cohesion to the Suiton. Moving through the Ram and Tiger seals very quickly, Nozomi launched the sticky liquid onto a tree, and it slowly dripped down the side of it, clinging as the technique was wont to do. Nozomi found the jutsu kind of gross and disgusting, but she did see its usefulness. One of the hardest parts of being a Taijutsu user was making sure that your opponent stayed within melee range, otherwise your techniques would be partially nullified. This techique was one of those that allowed her to keep on fighting someone without them running away as much. Of course, there was the issue that someone could use the Walking on Water technique, but not everyone had time to think about that before the jutsu landed.
In somewhat of a contrast to that technique though, was the Wild Bubble Wave. Rather than making everything sticky, it made everything kind of slippery and impossible to grab onto without a technique that allowed you to stick to something. Perhaps the Walking on Water technique or the Walking on Tree's technique would be just as beneficial as it had been to negate the stickier jutsu. She hadn't really tested it out yet, nor did she particularly care to. She didn't see much of a use for this technique, as she didn't like her opponents to be tripped up. It made her easier to counter attack because it increased the amount of time that she needed to reach someone. Still, she had learned the technique and practiced it quite a bit, and now had to demonstrate it. Holding the Tiger seal, Nozomi launched the Bubbles towards the sticky tree, and watched as it helped mix the two and turn them into normal water.
Nozomi was starting to get a little tired at this point, having used up a little less than a third of her chakra, but she still had a few more techniques to go through before she was quite finished with her demonstrations. Her father hadn't appeared angry yet, nor had he appeared impressed, simply exactly as she had expected him to. He had expected she would learn the techniques, and wouldn't be impressed that she had because that's what she had been charged with doing. It would be how she used them in combat that would set her apart from anyone else that simply knew the techniques.
Next up for her was one of the more difficult ones for her to do. Since it was such a wide scaled technique, and actually demanded that she create the water that it used, the Waterfall Basin Technique was one she had to focus on more to initialize. The other ones had not really required too much focus, but with this one, Nozomi needed a second to think before she could actually gather the chakra around her, flowing it into her surroundings. Perhaps the issue was that she was used to flowing chakra through her own body, but this manipulated her environment more so than her own personal self, even if those previous techniques hadn't been Taijutsu. Still, after forming the three required seals, the Boar Dog and Ram, the ground next to her started to crumble, revealing a waterfall that connected to the spring. She quickly finished with the technique, the water ceasing to run through it of her own will, although the streams overflow did fill in where she had made a divet in the ground.
With the Waterfall Basin technique demonstrated, Nozomi only had two more of the Suiton Library techniques to demonstrate, which was completely fine by her. Most of those techniques were Ninjutsu, and they were very stamina intensive for what Nozomi was used to. Mainly being a Taijutsu practitioner, and with her being able to save as much stamina as possible using her Taijutsu, even simple techniques such as these tended to drain as much chakra from her as her heavily pushed body fighting at peak potential. Now of course, that was with multiple Taijutsu based techniques stacking onto each other to increase her fighting ability, but still. Holding the Tiger seal and kneading the chakra inside her again, Nozomi let a large amount build up inside her and launched a gunshot at the tree she'd been using for practice on a couple of other techniques. The large bullet of condensed water blasted a chunk of the tree off, to which Nozomi waited a moment before completing the final jutsu. She didn't want to be caught doing handseals if the tree was falling towards her after all.
After a moment or so, the tree held steady, proving it wasn't going to fall down, to the girl's relief. The final Suiton jutsu she had to demonstrate was of course, the Water Bullet technique. She wasn't quite sure why it was named such, it was more of a constant stream of condensed water. It did seem to be used in similar manners as stronger Suiton Techniques, so perhaps it was a building block on to higher level bullet techniques, but even so, she didn't see why the name was as such. She would have called it Water Stream or something like that. Chaining the 4 seals together, Tiger, Ox, Tiger, Rat, Nozomi launched the final stream at the tree, the powerful torrent of water finally proving to be the match of the tree, and launched it backwards and away from the two of them.
Water Clone used/ returned
-5 Hiding in Water
-5 Water Whip
-5 Starch Syrup Capturing Field
-5 Wild Bubble Wave
-5 Waterfall Basin
-5 Gunshot
-5 Water Bullet
Stamina: 45/80
"Alright, let's start this one rather simple. I want you to run through all of your mid level Suiton Techniques. Go ahead and draw out that additional reserve of power if you need to. You won't be fighting me today." Kosuke said, crossing his arms. He'd taught her a large portion of them, and had left her to practice through them on her own, only briefly explaining how they worked. Now was the moment that she needed to tap into her knowledge in order to utilize them.
Nozomi nodded, recalling the techniques she'd been shown, and started to demonstrate her usage of them. The first up one would be the Water Clone technique, a very simple one that was only slightly different than the usual clone variant. Although, in using Suiton Chakra in the creation of the clone, it did allow the clone to be made solid, rather than just a copy of something made intangible. The glory of this was that it allowed for her to fight using more of her own fighting skills, which were already immense. Besides, they didn't require chakra to sustain them, just to create, which made them vastly more versatile.
Holding the Tiger seal, Nozomi gathered her Suiton chakra inside of herself, and created a single clone using the technique. The clone gave a thumbs up before Nozomi dismissed it, her chakra flooding back into her. She hadn't necessarily needed to do that, but it was easier for her to start with the technique that didn't really drain her chakra any, so she could continue on with her list at a greater rate of chakra, hopefully not requiring that she access her hidden reserves of stamina.
One down, a few more to go, although she knew she'd end up having to do much more than just Suiton jutsu before the end of this. Walking over to a small stream, Nozomi stepped inside of the slow moving water, moving deeper until she could submerge herself in the water fully, and then seemed to vanish from sight from everyone else. By flowing Suiton Chakra around her, she was able to camouflage herself completely, and almost seem to merge with the water. In Kiri, this was a useful technique, as water was readily available almost everywhere, and she wouldn't need to worry too much about ever having to make a source of water to hide in. Of course, it wasn't without it's drawbacks, Kosuke had told her that she was still able to be targetted, plus she was much slower than she should be in order to maintain the disguise. Besides that, she couldn't breathe water, and would need to eventually resurface, but buying a Rebreather might help her deal with that issue. It wasn't too big a deal, she was an up close and personal fighter anyhow, so hiding in water didn't help her fight any closer.
Emerging from the water, Nozomi didn't mind that she was now soaked through, as it was cool and refreshing after their hike there anyhow. Kosuke nodded his approval of her techniques so far, but didn't say anything as he wanted her to continue on. Nozomi ran through three different seals, to demonstrate the use of the Water Whip technique, using the water that was currently dripping off her as the catalyst for the technique rather than her own Suiton Chakra. Of course, her chakra was necessary to hold the water together in the form of the whip, but the primary purpose had been to assist in her drying off a bit. She cracked the whip around a couple of times, but she wasn't much of a whip user, so it was mostly for show. Eventually, she'd need to learn how to actually use one of them effectively, or she'd have someone show her a technique that could manipulate the whip any way she wanted it to be moved without her actually having to whip it around. Releasing the technique, the water fell to the ground harmlessly.
Next up was the Starch Syrup Capturing Field. Nozomi turned so that she wasn't aiming directly at her father, and once again began kneading the chakra inside her, adding a little bit of stickiness and cohesion to the Suiton. Moving through the Ram and Tiger seals very quickly, Nozomi launched the sticky liquid onto a tree, and it slowly dripped down the side of it, clinging as the technique was wont to do. Nozomi found the jutsu kind of gross and disgusting, but she did see its usefulness. One of the hardest parts of being a Taijutsu user was making sure that your opponent stayed within melee range, otherwise your techniques would be partially nullified. This techique was one of those that allowed her to keep on fighting someone without them running away as much. Of course, there was the issue that someone could use the Walking on Water technique, but not everyone had time to think about that before the jutsu landed.
In somewhat of a contrast to that technique though, was the Wild Bubble Wave. Rather than making everything sticky, it made everything kind of slippery and impossible to grab onto without a technique that allowed you to stick to something. Perhaps the Walking on Water technique or the Walking on Tree's technique would be just as beneficial as it had been to negate the stickier jutsu. She hadn't really tested it out yet, nor did she particularly care to. She didn't see much of a use for this technique, as she didn't like her opponents to be tripped up. It made her easier to counter attack because it increased the amount of time that she needed to reach someone. Still, she had learned the technique and practiced it quite a bit, and now had to demonstrate it. Holding the Tiger seal, Nozomi launched the Bubbles towards the sticky tree, and watched as it helped mix the two and turn them into normal water.
Nozomi was starting to get a little tired at this point, having used up a little less than a third of her chakra, but she still had a few more techniques to go through before she was quite finished with her demonstrations. Her father hadn't appeared angry yet, nor had he appeared impressed, simply exactly as she had expected him to. He had expected she would learn the techniques, and wouldn't be impressed that she had because that's what she had been charged with doing. It would be how she used them in combat that would set her apart from anyone else that simply knew the techniques.
Next up for her was one of the more difficult ones for her to do. Since it was such a wide scaled technique, and actually demanded that she create the water that it used, the Waterfall Basin Technique was one she had to focus on more to initialize. The other ones had not really required too much focus, but with this one, Nozomi needed a second to think before she could actually gather the chakra around her, flowing it into her surroundings. Perhaps the issue was that she was used to flowing chakra through her own body, but this manipulated her environment more so than her own personal self, even if those previous techniques hadn't been Taijutsu. Still, after forming the three required seals, the Boar Dog and Ram, the ground next to her started to crumble, revealing a waterfall that connected to the spring. She quickly finished with the technique, the water ceasing to run through it of her own will, although the streams overflow did fill in where she had made a divet in the ground.
With the Waterfall Basin technique demonstrated, Nozomi only had two more of the Suiton Library techniques to demonstrate, which was completely fine by her. Most of those techniques were Ninjutsu, and they were very stamina intensive for what Nozomi was used to. Mainly being a Taijutsu practitioner, and with her being able to save as much stamina as possible using her Taijutsu, even simple techniques such as these tended to drain as much chakra from her as her heavily pushed body fighting at peak potential. Now of course, that was with multiple Taijutsu based techniques stacking onto each other to increase her fighting ability, but still. Holding the Tiger seal and kneading the chakra inside her again, Nozomi let a large amount build up inside her and launched a gunshot at the tree she'd been using for practice on a couple of other techniques. The large bullet of condensed water blasted a chunk of the tree off, to which Nozomi waited a moment before completing the final jutsu. She didn't want to be caught doing handseals if the tree was falling towards her after all.
After a moment or so, the tree held steady, proving it wasn't going to fall down, to the girl's relief. The final Suiton jutsu she had to demonstrate was of course, the Water Bullet technique. She wasn't quite sure why it was named such, it was more of a constant stream of condensed water. It did seem to be used in similar manners as stronger Suiton Techniques, so perhaps it was a building block on to higher level bullet techniques, but even so, she didn't see why the name was as such. She would have called it Water Stream or something like that. Chaining the 4 seals together, Tiger, Ox, Tiger, Rat, Nozomi launched the final stream at the tree, the powerful torrent of water finally proving to be the match of the tree, and launched it backwards and away from the two of them.
Water Clone used/ returned
-5 Hiding in Water
-5 Water Whip
-5 Starch Syrup Capturing Field
-5 Wild Bubble Wave
-5 Waterfall Basin
-5 Gunshot
-5 Water Bullet
Stamina: 45/80
