oh snap!

Hysterio came to a stop while walking through the borders of the Fire Country. In his zeal to aid the man he recognized as the true Tenkage, he had neglected to consider whether his leader even wanted the people of Sunagakure as allies. Ooops. Well, there was only one way to try to remedy the issue. "Argh, I just realized I had forgotten something, I'm sorry, we need to head back." His sub conscious, ever mindful to train, was currently thinking over how he might improve his Genjutsu: Yuumei Shibari technique.

(ttl wc: 91)

Mitsui would be rather annoyed about what Hysterio said. Mitsui had spent this really long and boring flight to be told that he needs to go back?!?!? Mitsui would be very irritated to say the least. Mitsui would be thinking about this new wind jutsu that he would use. It would have to do with the rotating wind to make a very strong protection. Mitsui would be rather interested in what he could possibly do with it. Mitsui was practicing manipulating the wind such that he would be able to do this lovely jutsu. Mitsui would stop thinking about how he would do this jutsu to suddenly hear Hysterio say that he wants to come back? Mitsui would not want to come back unless a bunch of strong people are going too. Mitsui had no want of entering a country of a village that could very possibly hate Mitsui. Mitsui decided to ask some questions first so that he would actually know what was going on. Mitsui would ask his first question, "What are you trying to do back there? Where are we going? Why did you not think of this earlier? In what way can I benefit from this? I would rather be gambling and lose all my money then return to that place." Mitsui would be very angered at this. Mitsui wanted to continue on with this instead of having to suddenly worry about this new return. Mitsui would be ready for a fight so he would be rather intent on training or something instead of returning to that place.
(247 wc)

Well, it was only fair that Mitsui would be angry at Hysterio. He held up his hands, from 15 meters away, the man’s rage palpable, in an effort to try to quell the other man’s rage. “You are right, I am sorry. I wish I had thought of it before we had left Kumogakure. I take it you are not currently inclined to help me further then, that is only fair. You already have done more than you needed to, which was nothing.” He thought over the rest of what his now enraged companion had said. “I am to return to the Land of Lightning to meet my boss, I only just realized he could be back any moment and might not want the Sunagakure people as his allies. I should have asked him first."

Wow. Mitsui seemed to really dislike the Land of Lightning, and unfortunately, Hysterio needed the ride, he did not think Frank Sinatra would be able to carry him over all that water. He sighed, unhappy witht eh way things had turned out, wishing there was a better way to go about things. “Tell you what, speaking of gambling, since you would rather be doing that than returning, lets make a bet shall we? You look like you need to vent a little, huh? How about this. Let’s have a fight. If I win, you come with me and help me out back at Kumogakure. If you win, you leave me alone and I will give you one of my swords. Sound fair?”

In the back of his mind, he was trying to ascertain how he could move the chakra without using his hands, in the patterns needed to cast the Genjutsu: Yuumei Shibari. The chakra was not the only bit he had to learn to control however. He also needed to be able to control his native Yuumei chakra, the anti-chakra sort of stuff that was sentient and inhabited his mind and body, inseperably intertwined with himself. He needed its cooperation to be able to get this jutsu learned to a higher degree, he felt. Subconsciously he began reaching out, trying to contact the Yuumei chakra within himself he had ignored for so long

ttl wc: 91+369=460

Mitsui would be feeling very aggressive and irritated. Mitsui would say first, "I will give you the beating that you deserve." Mitsui would then quickly use the null version of hiding with camouflage. Mitsui would be about 15 meters from Hysterio. Mitsui would then quickly run off to the side at 62 speed. Mitsui would then run off to the side and then around behind Hysterio at about 15 meters away. When Mitsui would get to the other man's back, Mitsui would then run forward at 125 speed and punch the guy in the back of the head using Mitsui's left arm. Once Mitsui's fist would get to within half of an inch of the guy's head, Mitsui would deactivate Hiding with Camouflage and then activate Earth Spear to hit Hysterio at 80 strength. Assuming this works, Mitsui would take the money Hysterio had.

717 ap - 60 ap = 657 ap
Using http://naruto-role-play-rpg.forumotion.com/t22725-hiding-with-the-camouflage-technique?highlight=hiding+with+camouflage, http://naruto-role-play-rpg.forumotion.com/t22415-v6-earth-release-earth-spear?highlight=earth+spear

Wow. The other guy, Mitsui, serious huh. He was seriously mad all of a sudden. Perhaps his village had been destroyed too and he had never let his emotions out or something and had turned to gambling to run away from his issues. Whatever. Hysteiro needed to merely beat the living daylights out of him and then he would be good. The other guy, one much older than himself, somehow became invisible. Too bad he did not have any ways to sense that kind of annoyance yet. First hand seal used was the Ox, followed by the Tiger. The whole time he was listening carefully, as Mitsui was not bothering to conceal his steps. He racked his brains quickly, trying to figure out what Mitsui was up to. If Mitsui intended to use ninjutsu and the like directly against him he would be attacking from a distance, not turning invisible. That indicated that Mitsui must be intending to attack close up, since it sounded like he was now circling around. “This genjutsu should do the trick, since even to cast ninjutsu you typically have to look at the target. I do not know specifically where he is, but I can kind of hear him moving around, and to attack me he has to be able to sense me, most ninjas would do such sensory with his eyes, so this genjutsu would be just perfect.” Hysterio thought. Listening intently, and noting the only change to the sound was the direction and not distance, Hysterio judged that Mitsui was running around him, keeping a careful perimeter, and now that he was likely past Hysterio’s shoulder, unable to see the hand seals Hysterio would now begin forming, first the Ox and then the Tiger. As Mitsui suddenly began running towards Hysterio again from directly behind, his footfalls reminiscent of those of a herd of stampeding elephants, Hysterio finished the last hand seal, which was truly completely not visible to Mitsui, activating the Genjutsu: Yuumei Shibari technique. His body was suddenly swathed in a cloak of dark colored chakra, Mitsui having been running straight at him, would be most likely unable to react in time, and would be caught in the genjutsu.

Sub consciously, he had been analyzing his own movements and handseals, attempting to figure out how exactly it was that he was manipulating the chakra to form the attack, that hit the opponent’s senses.

If Mitsui was able to avoid the attack, Hysterio would know because his footsteps would not cease. Hysterio in this case would use the Body Flicker technique to move at 210 speed to a spot about 30 meters away on the plain they were standing on. Immediately afterwards, while having moved faster than Mitsui should be able to react, he would perform hand seals, summoning Frank Sinatra, his trusty bird, placing a Mark Seal on the little guy as he began flying into the air into safety.
If Mitsui was unable to avoid the genjutsu Hysterio was casting, he would notice because the footfalls would suddenly cease, followed by a muffled thump as Mitsui’s body suddenly stopped receiving commands from the brain and was paralyzed. In this case, Hysterio would turn around towards the source of the noise. He would form a Rock Section Cane, and walk forward, the cane swinging side to side as he walked towards the source of the noise, the cane bumping on an invisible object when he reached Mitsui’s body. Upon coming across Mitsui’s paralyzed body, which would have collapsed mid step, Hysterio would say “Well, looks like this bet, you have most certainly lost. I hope you do not renege on our agreement, I would hate to have to make my blades taste blood. Of course, I could always end it here and now, and see whether your technique would fade were you to stop leaving. I wonder if that technique would ever let your body be found…. You would not be the first I have left that way.” Hysterio was doing his very best to sound menacing and like he meant it, the last phrase indicating he had most definitely killed before, while speaking it his voice would turn to steel, almost literally. As he spoke, the cane would be dropped to the ground, the twin Vibro Blades drawn with a menacing hum easily audible to Mitsui, then being stabbed into the ground about 3 inches on either side of where his head should be, his head’s placement having previously been verified with the rock section cane.

(ttl wc: 460+756=1216)
Ap: 291 – 40 (Genjutsu: Yuumei Shibari, potentially also: -150 (Frank Sinatra, -5 (Mark Seal), -10 (Body Flicker)
Yuumei: 115-30=85

Mitsui would be well, unfortunate. Mitsui was rather surprised at how he had lost and was completely screwed over, so to pass the short amount of time that Mitsui thought he had, Mitsui would see how many numbers he could double from the number 1. Mitsui would get started, he would first think, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 9192, 18384, 36768, 73536, 154144, 308288, 616576, 1233152, Mitsui would then run out of brain capacity. Mitsui would then think about what might happen next. Mitsui guessed that he is probably going to kumo now and Mitsui had nothing he could think of to stop it. Mitsui would wonder if he was to die or not. Mitsui would hope that Hysterio did not see Mitsui. Mitsui had no way of knowing although, Mitsui probably guessed that he was probably visible due to the ever deepening hold in the mud that Mitsui was probably making. Mitsui had no clue what to think to be honest. Mitsui would continue this mind wandering to probably end up at another wierd place. It would be Mitsui this time in the ruins of Iwagakure. Mitsui would realize that his family bloodline is probably about to end, but Mitsui could not think of what to do about it. Mitsui would be very unhappy about it but Mitsui had no clue what to do about it. Mitsui would be paralyzed and blind but would be able to hear what was going on. Mitsui would be unsure of what will happen. Mitsui would proceed to wonder what to think. Mitsui would think that it was strange what this other man did. Mitsui would be in wonder of what to think. Mitsui would be now thinking, "hurry up and make the future come faster" Mitsui would proceed to wait for whatever was going to happen next. Mitsui would proceed to feel the cold ground. Mitsui would proceed to hear these vibrations. Mitsui would be wondering what to think. Mitsui would think that probably some machine that Mitsui has no clue how to determine. This did not sound like a kind of machine that Mitsui has heard of before. Mitsui would wonder what to think. Mitsui would be rather unable to do anything about it. Mitsui would not be able to talk or be able to do anything about it. Mitsui would be rather tired of whatever weird position Mitsui would be in. Mitsui would wait for whatever to happen.....
(Total word count of 807)

Huh. Mitsui had been unable to avoid the attack. Hysterio knew because Mitsui’s steps faltered and then stopped as the paralysis inflicted upon Mitsui’s body took hold, preventing his brain from any kind of movement, much less an attack or even to release himself from the Genjutsu. Tensing up, just in case, Hysterio heard a muffle thump. He turned around. It seemed Mitsui was unlucky and had literally chosen to fall into a mud patch. Well, this made things more entertaining did it not. Hysterio approximated Mitsui’s space in the mud, from the print he could see, made a rock section cane, and walked forward as previously stated, swinging the cane side to side so that he would know where Mitsui’s body was, paralyzed on the ground. Ironically, despite his paralysis, Mitsui was still invisible. Eventually he found Mitsui’s body, and spoke as previously stated, drawing and then stabbing his two Vibro Blades into the ground on either side of Mitsui’s head or where it should be, he assumed he had not found Mitsui’s feet. After he finished speaking, Mitsui was silent, which was good, otherwise it would indicate he had escaped the genjutsu. Speaking of which, the genjutsu Hysterio had used, had not much longer. After finishing his previously uttered words, he activated his Meigan, and said “I am watching you for any sign of chakra expenditure. I will release you from the genjutsu, if you try anything funny it is off with your head. I do not know just how “well travelled” you are, or if you have any good medical jutsu, but I think you would find it rather taxing to lose your head, literally. If I were you I would not make any trouble, got that?” Hysterio released the genjutsu, Mitsui should have heard everything he said clearly, unless he had spaced out.

If Mitsui did not do anything suspicious or hostile looking, Hysterio would say “Ok, lets go to the Land of Lightning again, the Tenkage awaits.”

In the back of his mind, he was quite amazed at how quickly the technique had worked, marveling that he could do it even faster were he to attain a higher level of mastery over this genjutsu. Speaking of which, he had noticed that the Yuumei responded slower to his command, this might well have been because of the fact that Hysterio had acquired the ability to use his Yuumei only very recently, whereas he had started learning how to manipulate his chakra, studying its various strong and weak points, and its many different generation points, and characteristics, almost since he had moved to what was now the ruin of a once fine and mighty city, Tengakure. He sighed. The new place, the new Kirigakure, had better turn out well.

His Yuumei spoke up. “Hey, glad you could FINALLLY use me, sheesh! I know I do not grow on trees but this was getting ridiculous, I was beginning to wonder if you would ever use me. And if you do not spend some time regathering the Yuumei you finally deigned yourself worthy to use, your time as a true Shinkou clan member will be sorely limited, fool.” The presence of his inner Yuumei abruptly shut off, leaving Hysterio wondering exactly how he was supposed to go about regaining the Yuumei chakra he had lost. Why he had to kind of made sense, the Yuumei was not infinite and he was merely a holder of some of the Yuumei chakra, he needed to go get more now to top himself off, like a glass of water.

(ttl wc: 1216+597=1813)
ap: 251-10=241
yuumei: 85+5(noncombat post)=90

Mitsui would proceed to wake up to see these two sharp edges almost pressed against Mitsui. Mitsui would end up saying, "Yes, I guess" to  Hysterio since there was not much that Mitsui could really do. Mitsui would then think, that in this wind jutsu, Mitsui would proceed to have many layers such that he would be able to break many things apart this way. Mitsui thought about it more and tried moving the wind around. He was kind of able to do a small portion of the wind movement this way, but he would still not be making it at the scale that Mitsui had hoped to do. Mitsui did not mind, since Mitsui intended a lot of refinement. Mitsui would wonder about how he would do more with the jutsu. Mitsui realized that due to the air friction, Mitsui would probably be able to make the ball of wind heat up. Mitsui guessed that this ability would likely need a lot of chakra to make work. Mitsui realized that he might need to add some more but how? Mitsui was unsure of that. Mitsui would wonder if he would want a possible jutsu that could help Mitsui in the increasing of the chakra that Mitsui had. Mitsui would think that would likely help Mitsui but he thought, that he should probably learn this first. Mitsui thought that he was likely to want to go and finish this jutsu before he would get to the other place so that Mitsui would be able to have this jutsu learned by then. Mitsui would wonder if it would be a good idea to go ahead and see if it would be possible in any way if there was any time to do this training whilst Mitsui was up on top of Rakdos. Mitsui would find that this would likely be a good time to do it, but it would probably be a little bit hard and Mitsui would also realize that he would likely need to go and learn how to make the jutsu not attack other people. Mitsui would wonder about how he would do that since it would mean that he would need to bend the wind currents to have them go around those objects or people or whatever they were. Mitsui would be in deep wonder about how he would do that since it was clearly very complicated wind patterns. Mitsui would think that it was likely a good idea to visualize the wind patterns. Mitsui would try visualizing them and realize just how hard that was. Mitsui found it only easy in perfectly circular objects. Mitsui would then wonder how he might just have the wind particles move around the objects that need protection. Mitsui then would wonder about what this might take otherwise. Mitsui guessed that it was likely needed to go and make the wind act semiconsciously such that it would be able to move around objects by itself instead of cutting whatever was in its way. Mitsui would then wonder about how he might get the chakra out. Mitsui guessed that he would do it by way of spreading the chakra out in a sphere. Then, Mitsui would have the air that the chakra touches quickly start revolving around Mitsui since then, the wind would serve as a protective barrier. Mitsui would then wonder about how he would go about learning this. Mitsui guessed that he would have to start on doing the chakra sphere. Mitsui would cut his thoughts for a bit and summon Rakdos. Mitsui would then get on and wait for the Hysterio to get on. Mitsui would then tell Hysterio that soon the Demon will start flying. Not yet though. Mitsui would then continue thinking about the jutsu. Mitsui realized that the sphere shape will not be able to affect the ground. Mitsui realized that it was nearly impossible. Mtisui thought that the only way to attack the ground was if there was some ground sticking up like a hill, mountain or maybe a cliff face. Mitsui would realize that there was probably nothing that Mitsui could do about the flat ground. Mitsui thought that the best way to deal with that was to make a jutsu that controls the ground.  Mitsui then thought that it was probably a good idea to go and see if he could make a jutsu that could make objects out of the ground. Mitsui would then cut those thoughts out of his head so that Mitsui would be able to finish his train of thought on how to do the jutsu. Mitsui thought that the likely heat of the jutsu will likely melt metal objects like Kunai or things like that. Mitsui thought that was a good thing since that would mean that Mitsui would be able to make some objects fall apart or maybe, Mitsui could burn some objects. Mitsui would be astounded by the possibilities. Mitsui would then wonder about the next thing. This was how he would maintain a jutus that could take so much energy and chakra to use. Mitsui would be pretty exhausted about thinking about all this stuff. Mitsui would decide that it was likely a good idea to rest soon. Mitsui expected that tomorrow would be a very long day and Mitsui had a lot more jutsu to learn. Mitsui would have essentially forgot that Hysterio was there. Mitsui would get onto Rakdos and tell Hysterio, "Get on" Mitsui would then tell Rakdos to start flying. Both would take off and would have to enjoy a long ride to Kumo borders. Mitsui would be extremely nervous about this since it was extremely likely that Mitsui would have to kill at least 1 more shinobi for this since it would be extremely likely that Mitsui would have to go and hide that he is there. Mitsui would hope that this other person would be welcome to Mitsui else Mitsui would be dead. Mitsui would certainly not want that since it would be extrmely likely that Mitsui could die from this whole dangerous ordeal. Mitsui would think that he might need a few more jutsu after this so that Mitsui would be able to fight better. Mitsui knew he was a decent fighter but the next few jutsu would likely be able to make Mitsui much more powerful. Mitsui would proceed to wonder about what might happen if the other guy gets mad. Mitsui would have an extremely good guess. Mitsui thought that it was likely that Mitsui would be dead after this. Hopefully, Mitsui would not due and that this person would actually be ok with Mitsui but Mitsui did not know who this other guy was and that was likely to be a bad thing. Mitsui thought that the best thing to worry about now though, was getting to Kumo borders. Mitsui thought that it would be good to be able to talk to this other person so that Mitsui would know what he would end up doing. Mitsui would then wonder what was next. Mitsui had no clue if killing that man he did on those same borders would be something that Mitsui would regret.

Total word count of 2006, 507 ap remaining, summoning http://naruto-role-play-rpg.forumotion.com/t24878-rakdos-the-blood-thirster?highlight=rakdos, + 1000 Ryo and 2006 words towards http://naruto-role-play-rpg.forumotion.com/t26751p10-onion-routing#200412 Exit)

Hysterio listened carefully and turned off his Meigan but could detect no trace of suspicion or any suspicious behavior in Mitsui’s behavior. Nodding, he carefully pulled his swords out of the ground and put them back into the sheathes that hung at his sides. “It is time to say hello to Xyxer then." It seemed Mitsui was pausing to rest, little did Hysterio know that Mitsui was coming up with his own nasty little genjutsu.

Speaking of genjutsu… Hysterio began thinking over the Genjutsu again, analyzing it and searching for ways to reduce waste in the chakra usage. Unfortunately he was not able to find any ways to reduce the Yuumei he ended up using but at least he was beginning to see ways to improve the speed at which the genjutsu occurred, not necessarily needing hand seals for all parts of it. Yuumei… he needed to recover more of it. He sat down and began trying to reach out with his mind again, his soul searching for the Yuumei within him and attempting to pull it back into his body with reinforcements. It was a rather weird sensation, and it felt as if he some how had left his own body. Hmmm. At least he had managed to get a handle on some more Yuumei.

He climbed on the summon of Mitsui.

10 more ap restored (ttl: 100)

(exit)

(ttl wc: 1813+223=2036
claiming 2036 words towards mastering Genjutsu: Yuumei Shibari, and +10 stats)

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