Another Private Topic (P: Sal)

Checking it out with his Byakugan, Draconis was not too impressed, the technique he had used was singularly lacking in over all destructive power. To be fair though, when compared to Salzem’s technique, it was intended to be more subtle. Way more subtle. If one was not careful they would be unable to hit the tenketsu, since that required precision that other techniques could not hope to match. Draconis walked over to another tree, and held up both his hands upturned, his fore arms parallel to the ground, his palms clearly visible to his eyes, and any one else’s for that matter. He carefully formed another needle of chakra on his left hand. Slowly, making sure to form a second one while maintaining the first needle made of chakra, Draconis turned his hands over and then raised them up a bit so that his fore arm and upper arms were all facing towards the tree running straight from him in a parallel line. Maintaining the chakra needles, he ran towards the different tree, beginning to unleash a flurry of punches.

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ttl wc: 2193+180=373

1000 towards Taijutsu spec
1373 towards http://naruto-role-play-rpg.forumotion.com/t22471-v6-eight-trigrams-sixty-four-palms?highlight=64+palms)

Salzem watched as Draconis walked over to a new tree and begun unleashing a series of blows. Salzem  kept to his tree, unleashing a series of quick, light swipes against the tree bark. Acting as if the tree were a person, Salzem slammed his elbow into the scratches he made, followed by a knee strike, ending with a quick jab into the tree itself with his claws  on both hands.  The claws sunk into the  wood as deep as his fingers would allow. He tore them loose, examining the damage. Were this a real person, not only would they be dead, but over killed as well.  The claws would have bypassed the ribs, sinking into the lungs and heart, the slashes would have cut major veins and arteries, leading to a messy death, and if that did not kill, the three strikes would have smashed the ribs of the person, bone piercing whatever was left.  Salzem rubbed his hands across the  inside of his claw stabs. Smooth, deep. Good. He turned to see how Draconis was doing, observing his technique, Much more fluid , accurate. He seemed to be striking at specific spots rather than Salzem's less-than choosy method of attack.  He cocked his head to the side, watching, interested in this form of taijutsu.
"What's the name of this technique?" Salzem would ask, eyes tracking Draconis's movements.

(Sal, unless you want Brain Cancer, read only my last paragraph if the posts are long like this one. Or you WILL get a headache, trust me, I tried afterwards myself xD )

Draconis was still blasting away with his needles of chakra embedded in his palms, when the other boy approached and inquired as to the name of the technique that Draconis was using that involved needles in his palm that the other boy who had approached him had probably not been able to see without the Byakugan as he was not as special and would most likely never be able to see unless Draconis held still which he was not about to for sure, this technique also involving the practitioner throwing many dozens of punches, up to sixty four to be precise though whether these hit kind of depended on the user if Draconis had his assumptions correct about the nature of the technique which he had been practicing when Salzem a boy he had trained with never before but had gone on a mission once with which he could assume meant that in this world meant they were reasonably close friends or at least just good acquaintances, meaning that they should greet each other reasonably friendly but not too close for they are both guys and guys are not supposed to do stuff like that besides which they are ninjas mostly unacquainted as this was the first time either had thought and it seemed to Draconis that either the other boy had managed to got much stronger in a short period of time or he was holding back before or Draconis was getting fat and slow or quite possibly all of them as Draconis and the readers all very well know he spent very little time training recently due to various events and sheer laziness on the parts of more than one person, that being said it was again time to get fired up and to get stronger as this sentence was beginning to reach the end of its final destination, that being a punctuation mark known to many but not all generally speaking as a period, that most useful of punctuation marks that is largely favored by a great many writers.

Now as previously stated in the previous little block of time Draconis had been doing a bit of training for a jutsu but he could not remember what it was supposed to be called, so he tried to remember but nothing was forth coming so he continued to blast away at the tree with his bare hands, his arms suddenly moving at a far more accurate pace and the end result being that he was moving faster in this form than before sounding like a Wheeee or a Wheeew depending on whether you were in front of his hands or behind, the side not hearing much at all for some odd reason derived from the personal opinions of the creator, for that is what determines Draconis’ actions does it not, so you see while he was training, Salzem had approached and eventually spoke at some length which was long or at least longer than Draconis had wanted to know about but it was not too bad since he had seen longer from more foul mouthed bastards or chicken eggs or hell he was not sure at all frankly so it could be that this list only included chickens first or some just more irritable people like certain ninjas who will not be known which Draconis was obviously avoiding, so he decided to listen to Salzem anyway and let him speak his spiel, this spiel being a word that the author has almost never used before and had to look up just to make sure the spelling was correct; as was stated previously, to put it simply without extra frills or the like as that would seriously detract from the story, Draconis heard Salzem out and it took him more than a few moments though less than too many to decide on what he wanted to do about it which was to find a suitable answer this being the name of the technique the only issue being that he could not currently remember so he continued to whale away on the tree with the chakra needles, his thoughts being interrupted by the falling tree, his hands emitting the chakra needles had managed to cut straight through enough of the tree that the tree trunk had apparently decided it had literally drunk too much, from the water of course, and then decided it would tip over until it was more comfortable, this process known to most as logging, though to Draconis who was in the midst of this it was more like a sudden shock as he was suddenly buried by a massive tree spanning an incredible two feet across, though this did not do much to him for he immediately threw the tree off of him with a growl directed to nobody in particular, least of all Salzem Algahara or what ever his name actually was Draconis could not quite remember; so as stated Draconis threw off the tree after he accidentally let it fall on him in the midst of his training, inadvertently training his muscles a little more than he had deemed necessary, the tree thudding off into the distance and squashing a rogue ninja, unbeknownst to Salzem OR Draconis, who had been congratulating him self on a successful entry into the massive grand and derelict village called by a name that most would call Konoha, this man not being a certain Mitsui that Draconis was supposed to meet but had not yet, so while the tree flew away into the under brush Draconis stood carefully and looked around for more falling trees but saw none so he turned to Salzem and began using the muscles that would not contract in an opposite way  as to open his mouth and then he began to use the tongue muscle to help him form words combining its power with the larynx which he had not heard of in the ninja academy which incidentally was his only education but it mattered little as his ability to use his tongue and larynx was rather unimportant and for our purposes it is only necessary to mention that it helped him for words which called the technique “Eight Trigrams- Sixty Four Palms” or such this being projected in a reasonably loud but not too soft neither voice in the general direction of Salzem Alagaharahobnfongrngwre or whatever his name was he really could not remember at this point due to being slammed into the ground and needing a nap if he was so bold but who cares he is supposed to be training so he would put up with this.

To put it in short, Draconis continued his training when Salzem approached and asked the name of the technique, calling it the “Eight Trigrams 64 palms”, just after he managed to cut the tree mostly in half with the chakra needles extending from his palms, the tree falling on top of him and him throwing it off of his body, and standing up again.


ttl wc: 2373+1170=3543

1000 towards Taijutsu spec
2000 towards http://naruto-role-play-rpg.forumotion.com/t22471-v6-eight-trigrams-sixty-four-palms?highlight=64+palms)
543 towards Hiding with Camoflauge

Salzem nodded, when he heard the name. He had heard rumors of the technique but never actually saw it in action.
"'twas a graceful technique." Salzem observed as the tree fell atop Draconis. "Might want to work on tree dodging though." Salzem's sense of humor was dry at best. His attempts at humor usually ended up  being as successful as an ape piloting a submarine. As Draconis threw off the medium-sized tree from his person, Salzem looked him over for any real damages. Nothing seemed to have hurt him, at least not noticeably.
"Gentle fist hmmm?" Salzem said. "Somehow, you strike me as someone who would get a kick out of regular taijuttsu." Once again, Salzem's skill in the art of humor  left much to be desired.  "But I digress," It is a powerful move to say the least." Salzem looked back at his tree, smashing his fist into the middle, in between the claw strikes he had made. The tree groaned and fell in the opposite direction from Salzem as a hole encompassing the claw holes and where his fist struck blew out the back of the tree.
"Your move is more like a waltz where mine is something of a wild dance, if that makes any sense what so ever. Precision and targeting seems to be your focus where I aim where I feel needs cutting." With those words of... wisdom, Salzem de-focused his chakra flow into his nails and teeth, causing them to fall out and regrow. His teeth shrunk back to normal size and Salzem sat down on a flat rock, putting his mask back on, breathing in deep the filtered air it provided. Salzem had analyzed Draconis from the start of this session and a few things came to mind. His first thing was that he referred to the people using this technique as "byakugan users" and not by their name, hyuuga. Did he have some issue with his clan? Strange indeed. This was not the first thing that set off bells and it wouldn't be the last as Draconis's... less than warm approach and seemingly ignoring of him seemed to have indicated that he have touched a nerve. Had he? he did not know. He decided not to push further in this subject for both of their sakes.

“Yes indeed, very graceful. The tree liked to dance with me so much it could not stand to be apart.” Draconis had a slightly cynical grin as he spoke. Little did Salzem know that there were some extraordinarily intelligent apes who had submarines piloted for a living. Though to be fair, neither did Draconis for the long winded matter that constituted. “Yes, old fashioned knuckle sandwiches are far more my style I do admit, but the “Gentle” fist is rather useful to know, not least because the style involves subtlety, not some thing you happen to acquire normally fighting tooth and nail I am afraid.”

“By the way, let me know if I am still visible.” As Draconis was speaking he began weaving hand seals and he began to make a chakra cloak that was sprouting the tenketsu that were but a minor portion of his body that had been crafted not by gods but by Mother Nature and instant ramen, instant ramen being the name of a nearby god from when Draconis happened to be born not that he knew this to be a fact or true but not even something he knew as instant ramen happened to appear all over the place as one of the foods he ate most commonly due to the relatively low price and easy preparation, Mother Nature being a god depending on how you looked at things but if Mother Nature was a god also then that meant the building in which he grew up was also a god did it not, and any way this is all a little besides the point since as Draconis was weaving the hand seals he began to have hiccups which he was not able to control and proved quite distracting as he was trying to focus on exerting him self to push chakra out of the tenketsu those little holes in his body that let out chakra that he could control to form in to jutsu in this case the jutsu being the Hiding With Camoflauge technique which he was currently trying to train though to be fair whether this yielded any results depended heavily on what Salzem saw or might not actually quite entirely see to be frank as he had had to do some thing that would normally be impossible which was becoming invisible and Draconis’ method was to make a chloak of chakra that was formed by chakra that was extruded in many different fashions though ultimately the same idea in the end, to make a web of chakra that he could cover him self in and try to make him self invisible with the hard part being to try and make the cloak its self invisible as it was not THAT hard to make a cloak that hid the user, but the cloak it self was usually visible too unfortunately.

In short, Draconis has a cynical sense of humor he displays a little, and he tries to become invisible, using Salzem as his test observer.



ttl wc: 3543+503=4046

1000 towards Taijutsu spec
2000 towards http://naruto-role-play-rpg.forumotion.com/t22471-v6-eight-trigrams-sixty-four-palms?highlight=64+palms)
1046 towards Hiding with Camoflauge

Salzem watched as Draconis disappeared, fading into the area as he was absorbed into the scenery. The light refracted and bent around the young chuunin, absorbed  as the light swallowed him like a predator does prey.  Salzem circled the area where Draconis once was looking up and down, scanning the area for anything to give away Draconis's position. His sanguine eyes scanned the full height of Draconis  (or at least where he once stood). No, seeing him would not  work. But there was a way for him to determine his location. 
"Yes, Draconis I can't see you."  Salzem said before throwing a quick palm strike at the place where Draconis's stomach should be. Now Draconis should be fast enough to dodge,  and should he, Salzem would watch the ground, taking notes on the position of the foot prints left in the dirt. He would then use them in combination with  his other senses, Smell, hearing, touch, keeping a broad view around him to keep track of any movements.
"You see, Draconis, a simple chameleon technique is not very effective if you cannot cover your tracks."

(will post tomorrow in a bit under 11 hours I think)

Draconis apparently turned invisible, doing better than he had expected. The other boy seemed to be unable to see him at all which was fortunate as Draconis was quite not used to doing this jutsu which involved bending chakra so that light instead would also bend around the user which was in this case Draconis who was definitely trying to be invisible and he could see that it was working because the other boy appeared unable to sense Draconis’ exact location which was good so Draconis watched the other boy as he circled, using his Byakugan, the other boy seemed to be attempting to find a way to track Draconis and he seemed pretty exact too as he suddenly approached from the front towards Draconis, the other’s eyes seemed to keep glancing at Draconis’ feet or where he had last seen them anyway probably trying to watch for foot prints unless only Draconis’ feet were visible and the other boy was lying which was it self rather unlikely as the other boy had proven him self to be quite capable before so this behavior would make no sense frankly . This might have worked if Draconis was not paying attention. He was though. As Salzem approached, Draconis carefully lifted his right leg up so that he did not make any noise or disturb the ground under his foot, and so that there was no evidence, if he was invisible like Salzem Alagahara had said, that he was doing anything since other wise if he was not careful like he had been he would make some noise or kick up some dust or change the foot print and Salzem would probably notice. His foot silently raised, he waited until Salzem was closer, about a meter and a half away and then he swept his right foot about two feet above the ground aiming at Salzem’s knees during this time his left leg not moving at all so that the foot print would not be disturbed and so that he could do it more quietly. Due to his invisibility and Salzem’s apparently being unable to see his movements, Salem should be unable to see the attack coming at all and only a freak of nature would be what would likely be sufficient for him to avoid Draconis’ attack in time without knowing a suspicious amount more than he let on. If Draconis’ managed to land the invisible and pretty much silent hit on Salzem, Salzem would be tumbled over and Draconis would bring his foot back to its original spot before cancelling the technique and becoming visible to all instead of only being visible to a few who happened to be able to sense heat, body fluids, or other crap like that, no, all in this case meant that even a simple half blind civilian should be able to sense Draconis’ position without any special powers using the ocular abilities they and lal other beings were typically born with, the beings with eyes anyways for those without eyes would always have more trouble sensing Draconis in any form anyway. “Right now even if I turn invisible it might be possible for you to sense my chakra.”
 
In the back of his mind he began reviewing the steps for the explosive clone jutsu, and he was not happy with his progress so far as he often made some thing that would fizzle out because he had not made enough explosive chakra or any of a number of other potential issues that would bug him, the point being that he could and would make his attempt at the jutsu better, since to stick with the half baked half assed version that he had currently would be folly to  rather extensive degree, one not befitting even a member of the god damn Hyuuga, how he hated the name, even criminals should not be content to stick with what he had going here for him and he intended to get beyond that, so the first thing he needed to do was to learn to make more explosive chakra in rather massive quantities, one that he would be able to use more effectively while still being able to turn it by shaping it, in to a shadow clone the only difference between the original shadow clone and the new version being that the latest and so called greatest version was able to explode as well which apparently meant that it needed to cost more chakra, annoyingly enough though this was the price of having a more effective jutsu; so as stated earlier Draconis was quite interested in making a better rendition of the pitiful human shaped bombs and pint sized explosions that he had been producing before much to his chagrin, so he began trying to form explosive chakra like before, concentrating further this time and reaching into the depths of his mind to find the source of all his energy, pulling on that to lengthen and increase the size of the chakra he was forming, trying to add an explosive elemental combo of fire and wind to it but failing as he was apparently by some freak of nature not supposed to be able to do this in any official capacity without registering the new version with the city or what ever bull crap he had to follow in this universe not that he truly minded much since every one had too but it was still annoying, so as said before he was trying to concentrate the explosive chakra into his body, the part about his body most likely not being mentioned before, and he was going to try and form it into a human shaped bomb later that would still have full functionality though hopefully this was not too long in process as technically he was also fighting Salzem Algahara at the same time, did he spell the last name of his one time team mate correctly, but who cares, it mattered very little in the greater scheme of things, so he began trying to concentrate the explosive chakra again and this time he was pleased to see that he was really starting to make some progress here and there, like a piece of technology that refused to load properly his chakra was not forth coming perhaps because of his earlier fight or some thing so he decided to try and speed up the process by, you guessed it, gritting his teeth in an attempt to concentrate harder and increase the amount of training he was putting towards the technique now during this training session though it was still going to take a while he would not be utterly hope less at this hope fully by the time the end of this short block of time ended, for he had a great many other things to do and a class or two to try and attend as well so he did not have time to think at all vbery much not at all about the training he was doing all he could do was rush it in this case trying to pull up more chakra and make it explosive, though he thought he was beginning to get close to the end of the light at the end of the tunnel which was a good sign as this was much more chakra than any amount he had collected before for this jutsu especially one like this that did not involve any elements, that in it self differed it from most of the techniques he had tried to learn before, though by the time this little pocket of time was ending his kick would either be landing and hitting Salzem in the knees or it would not and he might be in trouble but only time would tell since who knows what Salzem had up his sleeve, so as he was finishing his kick he stopped thinking as much about the exploding clone jutus he had been trying to learn for so long and instead began trying to learn about how to predict the opponents attacks all the while trying to maintain a hold on his chakra without letting all the work he had put into the last little pocket of time go to waste as that would truly be quite a strategy worth forgetting and a tragedy quite worth remembering and learning from.
 
Draconis reviewed his actions in this short burst of time merely for the sake of amusement. He had watched Salzem move around watching the spot where he would have last seen Draconis, while keeping his eyes quite often where Draconis’ feet had been, the only likely reasons being that either Draconis had his feet visible, or he was watching for foot print movements or changes. As such Draconis raised his right foot without moving his left foot when the other boy began approaching, silently and being careful to not disturb the foot prints or surrounding scenery. He would then kick Salzem in the legs, toppling him over silently unless the other boy had a way to sense an invisible leg.
 






ttl wc: 4046+1517=5563

1000 towards Taijutsu spec
2000 towards http://naruto-role-play-rpg.forumotion.com/t22471-v6-eight-trigrams-sixty-four-palms?highlight=64+palms)
1046 towards Hiding with Camoflauge

1517 towards the Exploding Clone jutsu

Salzem had listened carefully, his senses had not betrayed him, but did not especially help him either. Time to kick his sensory up a notch. He closed his eyes, sensing with his chakra. He sent pulse after pulse of chakra out around him, making him able to sense where Draconis was. He was beingg careful not to alert Draconis to his knowing, pretending to still stay in a state of confusion. Salzem snapped his eyes open, jumping backwards, gaining about two meters of distance away from where Draconis struck. He did not know of the attack before he moved, but as he leaped back, he felt the breeze flow past his legs as if he head just avoided a blow. He then closed his eyes again, focusing, sending pulse after pulse of chakra. Draconis would either have to discard his cover or his stealthy approach if he was going to land any real blows. Salzem has not fought blind before. This would be a new experience for him.

(careful, in a real fight you might have to provide more reasoning for why you suddenly jump away like that)

 
Draconis knew some thing was off when the other boy’s eyes suddenly snapped open from their closed position just a few split instances earlier. His kick was a dead miss as the other boy suddenly jumped back wards. Weaving hand seals, Draconis would end up forcing the technique to stop, the invisibility one any way, as he figured that the other boy truly could not see him, his motions were far too erratic.
 

It was time to continue working on the explosive shadow clone jutsu.

(+85 wc, will make longer in a while if no post in the next few hours)