Shadow Clones! (IO, NK)

Rising slowly from his bed, Hiro would groan as the pain of his last training session set in. He had trained more than he probably should have, and ended up overexerting himself, causing him to feel somewhat like a ragdoll who had been thrown into a sharks mouth. This made the simple task of walking to his kitchen and making cereal more difficult than ever before. Pouring the cereal itself was easy enough, but the milk hurt his arm more than he liked to think about. After eating his nice breakfast of cereal, he walked sluggishly out the door, knowing he had even more training to do today. Today he was going to learn a technique he had seen Haruki use, one that let him make solid clones. This jutsu was Shadow Clone jutsu, and it was a much better varient of the basic Clone Jutsu. The key difference was that they were not an illusion, and instead were able to interact with the environment and attack or defend. This was much more useful, and completely worth the difficult training. So, he slowly jogged to the training ground, waking up as he went. Upon arrival, he would start using the basic Clone Technique, getting into the swing of it until he felt ready to make an attempt at the Shadow Clone Jutsu. His first attempt at it, he didn't do so well. He had formed the hand-seals properly, but the result was lacking in... everything. It had appeared, but was slumped over and sickly looking, on its knees and face. Quickly kicking it to dispel it quickly, Hiro would try again, causing almost the exact same result, with the exception of the skin tone becoming slightly closer to his own. This continued until he had gotten one that stood up, but barely, and it fell over quickly, dissapearing in a puff of smoke. I fucking hate training. He would say quietly, continuing with the training.

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Haruki would place his hands up to carry out the task at hand, him summoning two Shadow Clones by his sides so that they were able to roll around freely. Not a single care in the world from this point, so he was going to have to look around to see what he would find in the Training Grounds. At this point, he knew not to be too careless. There was a lot of things that could go wrong, his last mission had proven that when nearly caught in Genjutsu. The clones of himself did not seem to lack substance, and they just bladed around the training grounds happily and carelessly. It made the original chuckle before seeing the sudden disappearance of the other clone that was supposed to be made. Right next to it was a familiar partner of his, Hiro. While there was a lack of interaction between the two currently, this one was the person he was supposed to protect. After all, if they were considered teammates one time, it was likely they will be partners. The trace of the clone were gone, meaning that Hiro most likely tried to mimic the trick. Now it was time to explain, one of the Shadow Clones moving up to him. Heyo! I think you should try to focus our chakra on yourself! Who knows you better than you? Now imagine making you out of clay? What do you see? What is your personality like? And what are your abilities? Just those questions alone can increase the endurance of a clone, since the Chakra is linked to yours and is much more similar. The less like you it is, the weaker it will be and the less endurance it will have.

Taking Haru's advice into account, Hiro rethought the jutsu. The clones worked on their own, only transmitting memory and decisions after they are dispelled, so it would make sense that they are required to have your actually personality, and not just your shape. They need it so they can make the decisions you would make without you telling them to directly. Trying again, this time using this info, Hiro would make a slightly better clone, this one standing on his own with a normal skin tone. Thanks for the help Haru, seems to have improved the result a little bit. Again Hiro would try, making his clone able to move around, although slowly, on its own. It could walk and move its arms and head, but not very fast or with any real force. It was weak, but it was a clone. He would say to it, hoping to illicit a response, Hey, you there, speak. This was met with silence for a bit, but eventually got the small response of a groan. He had made, basically, a zombie. Dispelling the jutsu and trying again, Hiro would make another, slightly better, clone. It could go at a jogging pace, and move its arms at a normal speed, but alas, still could not speak. Nothing but groans and moans would come out of its mouth, seemingly unable to form the words. This was due to the fact that the words would be decided by what Hiro would say, which he was unable to put into the clone without putting his full personality into it, which was difficult for him. Focusing on everything he was, Hiro made another clone, this one appearing directly to his left, standing in the same position, hand seals and everything. They would both return to their normal pose, looking towards each other. The original would speak, greeting the clone with Hello, what is your name? The clone would respond to this in the same way that Hiro would, saying You know it already, its Hiro Raijin. This had been his first successful shadow clone, and he was proud of it. It worked, with its own memory and ability to move. He doubted it would be able to perform a jutsu yet, but that made sense, as he had only just gotten to the point where he can make it. He tested it out a little bit, having it punch his fist as he punched its, seeing how fast it can go, all of the general stuff. By doing this, he found that it was the exact same as him, physically and mentally, except for their seperate memory. Dispelling the clone, Hiro could then remember everything it did, from coming into existence, to being dispelled. It was almost the exact same as what he had just done, but still, the memory thing was cool. I'm gonna take a short break now, so yeah, just like, talk or something. Sitting down, Hiro would then look to Haru, waiting for him to say something to start a conversation.

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Heyo Hiro Raijin, I'm Haruki Akari! The Akari would explain once he had been told the name. He knew the partners name, but it was just to make a small little childish joke after the name had been brought to light once again. And who knew how to manipulate light better than he did? With that, he was then told to talk about something, which only make him tilt his head to the side. Talk about what though? It was very sudden, and a childish mentality required time in order to carry out a command, and that is IF they obey. However, there was no way to disobey anyways, and so a topic would come up to mind a few seconds later. You need to test the clone! Make it do things! If it takes a single fatal hit, it is out. So it needs to be able to think on its own, rather than force it tow ork on command. Kind of like having twins! Very fragile twins. The Akari would explain before placing his hands in his pockets. He loved talking about training and improving himself. It only made things a lot more fun. And seeing more genin now actually working, that was something that kept his smile sticky glued to his face.

Hiro hadn't thought about testing things like reaction time on the clone, so he decided he should do that now. Gonna make sure he can keep from being hit first. Ya know, since the whole one hit kill thing is in effect, I thought it would be best if he didn't get hit at all. You have a couple kunai I could borrow? Since the clone worked off of Hiro himself's skill level, then improving either of them would improve both of them. Using this logic, Hiro would start sparring with himself, using kunai if Haru had decided to give them to him. Jumping back and forth, Hiro saw that the clone used the same defenses he did, and exploited them to force the clone to come up with new ones, which would be transferred to Hiro when the clone was dispelled. That wasn't going to happen yet though, as Hiro wasn't quite done with him yet. Soon, both were tired, the clone more so due to having less energy than Hiro himself had. This caused the clone to mess up first, getting a long gash across its right arm, down to its chest. This damage caused it to be dispelled, transferring its memories to Hiro the same as the last one. It felt weird to have two sets of memories, both showing him fighting himself. This was incredibly weird to him, and he was not really enjoying it. Creating another clone, he began sparring again, this time using what he had just learned from his previous spar to improve his defenses and attacks. He had definitely improved a little bit, but not very much, which meant he had to keep going, fighting himself. It was such a weird thought, fighting himself. While thinking, he was cut on the arm by the clones kunai, snapping him out of his train of thought. He dove in for the kill, taking an opening his clone showed near the middle of his body, too busy attacking to defend from the killing blow. The clone disappeared in a cloud of smoke, once again outdone by the original. Now that he had the general fighting thing down, he was going to try and get a second clone going. Re-performing the hand seals, Hiro focused his chakra on both sides of him, causing a large cloud of smoke and two zombie clones appeared on his sides. They were unable to move properly, and couldn't perform advanced motor functions, and were useless to him. Dispelling them again, he made another pair, slightly better than the others. Dispelling these once again, he did the jutsu again, making another pair. This pair was almost to maximum ability, but not quite, still needing some more progress to make them what he needed them to be. Trying again, the cloud of smoke appearing and dissipating, Hiro noticed the clones had improved less than they normally even would have, which was already a small amount. This was annoying, to say the least. He would need roughly 3 more attempts to get it perfect, or he would end up needing a break. So, he would do it again, making his two clones, still barely improving. Dispelling it again, Hiro would sigh before forming the hand seals again, causing another cloud of smoke, and making another pair of clones that were slightly imperfect. Groaning loudly, he would make one final cloud of smoke, making his final pair of clones, which were perfect. Sitting down, Hiro would look to his friend Haru, and quietly say, So, how about Paralysis Jutsu next, huh? Hiro would then grin at him, ready to get right back on the training horse after this tiring exercise. Waiting for Haru's response to his request to learn the Temporary Paralysis Technique, which would be very, very, useful to him. It was only usable by someone who hadn't mastered it with hand seals and at close range, but would still be better than some other basic jutsu. Besides, Haru couldn't really teach him any of the other jutsu he wanted to learn.

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1500/1500 words for Shadow Clone Jutsu

Here ya go, boss! Haruki would tell him before then flicking two Kunai, one from hisleft side and one from his right before flicking one to each of them. Once that had been done, he would then place his hands in his pockets as he would watch. While it would have been a little more entertaining to watch with the Shadow Clones of his own, why did he feel the need to waste any Chakra? So he would do himself a favor and watch the show on his own. However, Hiro did not seem to have the same idea. Instead, he decided to just keep on summoning them until he reached a limit. However, it was training, and Haruki did not bother interfeering when his partner just wanted to become better. Not the slightest bit bad! When you master it, you will be able to bring out WAY more clones! But for now, you seem to have it down already! So onto the Temporary Paralysis Jutsu! Haruki would explain before then placing his palms up to form the Tiger Seal. With Tiger, you can send your Chakra over to someone and hold them still. If you have more Chakra control, this will be stronger. Just hope your opponent isn't too strong, or they won't have much trouble escaping this, aye? The Akari would ask before then point over to the scene where the clone was once. If you get caught, but had Shadow Clones beforehand, they will not feel the effect of the paralysis. Use that to your advantage if you can. Now try it on me!

Taking Haru's advice with a grin, Hiro would form the tiger seal and focus his chakra into his arms, releasing it to Haru in an attempt to paralyze him. This would have no effect however, causing the grin to disappear and Hiro to retry the technique, causing another failure. This time however, Haru would be able to feel the chakra trying to constrict him, but being too unfocused to properly form around him. This was useless for stopping someone, but was better than nothing, so Hiro would build off of it. Now knowing how to form the bonds, Hiro simply had to strengthen it, along with focusing it. Pushing more chakra into this time, Hiro would once again form the bonds, this time letting all of it into the bonds, which only caused them to grow unstable and dissipate faster. This was annoying, but Hiro had grown used to it training his other jutsu, and so didn't get angry. Instead, he simply put more focus into focusing the bonds into a more stable form, one that could hold the chakra for an extended period of time. This was difficult, but he had managed it before, and would certainly do so again. After all, he wouldn't have to do this after he learned the jutsu, since it would come naturally to him then. So, performing the jutsu again, Hiro would use it on Haru, forming some weak bonds that stayed. These would be easy to break, requiring almost no force to get past. This would quickly be dispelled and redone, made slightly stronger, the exact same as last time. So, dispelling once again, he would say to Haru, What do you think I'll do when I can keep you trapped with this? You think I'll just do it again and again so you can't leave, or just knock you out and keep you here like that? This was a joke, and would be emphasized with a small laugh as Hiro performed the jutsu once again. Without some kind of booster, He seriously doubted he would be able to keep Haru stuck with this one jutsu. Haru was much stronger than Hiro was, and would doubtless be able to break through the jutsu with ease once Hiro did learn to use it properly. The only way to learn it properly would be to continue training it, so continue training it he did, using the jutsu on Haru once again, this time working it at about half strength, showing he was progressing much faster than with the previous jutsu. This was a sign of improvement, and spurred Hiro forward with a renewed determination. Despelling and using the jutsu again, it would be obvious it was getting stronger, almost at full power. With one last attempt, Hiro would have it complete, with the full strength jutsu binding Haru, however easy it was for him to break out. Go on, break out now, I'd say training is done for the day. Thanks for the learning, see ya later, all that fun stuff. With this, Hiro would turn around and begin walking back to his house, done learning for the day.

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TWC 2047
Claiming 10 stats
Claiming Shadow Clone Jutsu and Temporary Paralysis Jutsu

Keep on paralyzing them. That would be nice if the opponent did not see it coming, but it was pretty obvious to see that an opponent would do it to them again. Probably a good idea to keep them on Paralysis if they were too weak to break from it. Haruki did feel it, but nothing else was there. It was simply, and if one of the clones were there, they could use a Chidori with this Paralysis active. This could be very useful. In fact, the Akari planned to master this technique soon. But for now, ,he was going to leave it alone seeing as it did not do too much for him yet. Once given the permission, he would then flick his pointer and middle finger up at the same time, to wave him off of course. It was like the Haruki handshake. You got it! Glad to see someone else using those clones! Hope to see you all around sometime, I'll make sure my clones report it to me. I suggest you try to master it sometime. It doesn't have to be expensive in Chakra. And with that, the Akari would make his way out from the scene, rollerblading away from the training grounds. Why was he there in the first place? In that moment, he just wanted to see if others were still willing to learn new things at the training ground. And now he left with a smile.

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Rewards:
10 AP

Jutsus? Nah x3 All full!

Approving Hiro.