The Manipulator[Hunter]

Spoiler:

The sun had slowly been falling over the village of Sunagakure and the sloth known as Iburi had been staking out the village for some time waiting for night to come. Earlier in the day he had accepted a mission to track down some idiot that had been using genjutsu to make people give him their money. While he did not blame the guy for trying to make a quick ryo, there had been some additional information that he was planning on selling some secrets of the village to foriegn buyers which had been a punishable offense...with death. Ibari had spent most of the afternoon talking to some of the people that been conned or taken advantage of by the man, gathering any sort of vague look or appearance of the man so that he knew what to look for. The trouble with that was usually if someone was going to use Genjutsu on you, they'd do it under the guise of something or someone else. Thankfully someone was able to give a general appearance, enough that he could recognize the facial features of the threat and promptly eliminate them.

Back to the present, the moon was slowly peeking over the horizon and soon his mission would start. Before he began however he was eating a few pork buns and watching the people that been walking past the rooftop he was currently occupying. Seemed rather easygoing for those that did not take up the life of the shinobi. You just worried about the regular stuff in life unless an attack or something happened upon the village. The you panicked. The life of a shinobi was definitely...filled with a lot of headaches and nuances but it was not without it merits. Every so often he would watch the movements of the moon so that he had a rough gauge of how long time had been passing him. Apparently the person liked to come out during the time the moon was at its highest since most people would be walking home from their night activities and more susceptible to his tricks. Since he had been dealing with a genjutsu user, Ibari's initial thoughts were to simply trap him in a jutsu and then knock his damn lights out. Of course if things got truly physical then...well...Ibari might as well impale the guy right? Hopefully it wouldn't come down to that and he could just apprehend the suspect and then let someone execute him.

With the moon slowly approaching its destination, Ibari stood up and activated a relatively useful technique to scout the area quickly. Opening his mind's eye, he would begin to scout an entire area of 125 meters to search for someone who had been...well doing something they shouldn't have been doing or within the area in which the crimes had been happening. Of course as he did this blips of chakra would appear, more notably one that was assisting him with this mission. Normally using a technique such as this would require one to know what to look for, but a red flag came across his radar. Someone had been under the influence of a genjutsu and this might have been his guy. He'd wait for his partner before moving from the rooftop to the streets and heading toward the area in question.

553/1000

Geriatric Menace:

wc: 350

As his partner showed up Ibari would turn to the male and give a small nod of affirmation. Seems like the mission went from capture to kill which just meant that this would be fun for all involved. As soon as Stark finished speaking, Ibari would point in the direction of where their little culprit was and turn to the direction," Well let us get on with this and make sure that we have a little fun in the process," of course the male had not known that he was actually participating in an execution with his Kage. As the two took off toward the destination of the ninja, Ibari kept his mind's eye open to make sure there were no other obstructions like stray ninjas or supporters of this criminal looming around. As the two appeared on the scene, Ibari would stop ten meters from the old man and didn't actually think of asking him their name. Instead he looked at what seemed to be a splinter and then side-eyed his partner before holding up his left index finger to point at the male's torso," Look i'll make this simple. Give up and come with us or make this difficult. Choice is yours mate," of course he'd know when the man would perform something that would escalate this shakedown. Should the male perform any type of jutsu that Ibari found hostile then he would quickly retaliate in kind to protect himself.

AP Cost:
https://www.narutoroleplaygame.com/t40909-minds-eye-of-the-kagura?highlight=Minds+Eye - 45 AP (for activation of last post) , 20 Upkeep for this post.
900-65 = 835 AP
2/6 stacks

(Taking over the NPC for Nobo. Just fyi, from discussions I had with Ayato Blood Dragon Ascension should not be able to be mastered since it doesn't have hand seals. Will just operate under that understanding.)

As he turned to face and present the self inflicted wound to the two ninja who stood 10 meters away, a steady dribble of blood began to ooze from the cut. Beautiful, it was. Yasushi was fascinated by the sight of his own blood, as he knew the potential it had. The only question was how might he use it this time? His eyes quickly flickered from Ibari to Stark, and with that he would visually "size up" his opponents. Both opponents seemed to have notably dense sources of chakra, each surpassing his own. When his eyes began to shift towards Stark, they would immediately refocus on Ibari instead. With just a quick glimpse from his peripheral, Yasushi noted that Stark's eyes were problematic. While one appeared to be a Byakugan, the other boasted a crimson aura not like his own. It was distinct.  Thus, that partial glance led him to believe the red eye could be a sharingan, as it was the only other red dojutsu he knew of. Although he was cautious to avoid looking into the eyes of Stark, he knew he would be facing an uphill battle. The strong chakra reserve combined with a sharingan would be an issue for Yasushi's genjutsu. Yet this would not deter Yasushi from standing his ground. It would just mean that his genjutsu would have to wait. 

Alas the two were clearly sharp shinobi, as they instantly called his bluff and offered an ultimatum: stand down, or die. In reality, Yasushi knew the truth behind this proposition. He was a dead man whether he turned himself in or not. And so he would refuse. Throughout his years of life, he had overcome numerous handicaps within combat. To him, this was just another battle he would seek to emerge victorious from. 

"Truth is, you both have already made the decision for me." Yasushi would let out in response to the short lived introduction of the encounter. As he began to speak, his left hand would separate from gripping his right wrist and go on to perform 5 hand seals. The timing of the final hand seal occurred upon Yasushi saying the word "me". As these actions happened concurrently, an audible sound wave of the word "me" would spawn from Yasushi's mouth and pulsate through the air towards Stark and Ibari. The sound wave would take the form of a conical beam, 5 meters in diameter and would travel 20 meters straight ahead (again towards Stark & Ibari). Although this was a relatively simple technique it was important for Yasushi to gauge the abilities of his opponents, and what better way to do that than seeing their reactions? 

As the sound wave first omitted from Yasushi's mouth, he would carefully watch the two men before him to prepare to react to how they might counter. Yet upon initiation of the sound wave, he already began to stage his next attack. Utilizing the blood from his hand, he performed 3 hand seals (tiger, hare, serpent) and spawned a blood copy of himself directly behind his own body (1 meter) who would remain on standby pending the response from Ken and Ibari. Yasushi would continue to emit the sound wave while he created his blood clone. 

(WC: 542)

Actions & AP:

His eyes never left the male as he held his index finger toward his chest still, his other hand moving upward as a just in case because he felt this would go south and when it did he would be prepared. Ibari could see that the male had been sizing both him and Stark up, a mistake he probably shouldn't have done considering the two knew who was the strongest, but Ibari was no push over. As the male spoke to them he could feel the male's chakra surging due to Mind's eye still being active and once his hands began to move toward one another so too did Ibari. He didn't give the man the time to finish his sentence as Ibari quickly made two hand seals and prepared himself for battle. Unknown to the man in front of them a brown substance would begin to appear a meter behind him at a rapid pace slowly pulling his feet under unless he had the strength to move under it. Due to how the brown substance had been forming it would be without sound and unless the male had looked down, it would be too late. The thick brown substance would continue to appear under him, behind him and to his sides for up to ten meters ensuring his demise. As a secondary precaution, his hands would perform two more hand seals as six heads of demonic fire would spawn around Ibari, five meters around him to be exact, and five meters around Stark so that they could not and would not harm his partner in anyway. The heads floated idly waiting for their master's direction as he watched the swamp take their quarry.


AP:
https://www.narutoroleplaygame.com/t40909-minds-eye-of-the-kagura?highlight=Minds+Eye - 20 Upkeep for this post.
https://www.narutoroleplaygame.com/t29257-swamp-of-the-underworld-v6-remake 45 ap (60 Base, 90 power and speed due to chakra scaling)
https://www.narutoroleplaygame.com/t27046-fire-release-demon-lantern (85 power/85 Speed) 35 AP

Current AP: 735+10 (due to natural berserker) = 745

3/6 Nature Stacks

(Just a heads up, I believe the rule of thumb is that offensive techniques cannot be spawned within 5 meters of an opponent. So with that being said I’ll just operate under the presumption that the swamp of the underworld spawned 5 meters behind me rather than 1 meter behind me.)

When his left hand had initially began to form the handseals, Yasushi noted the reactions of his opponents. Ibari was wasting no time in his reaction and thus began to form his own seals as well. In the meanwhile, Stark had begun to take several steps back and weave hand seals of his own while doing so. Based on the fact that Ibari remained in his current position while Stark retreated back a few steps, Yasushi had figured that either one of two things were happening: 1) Stark was moving backwards to prepare for a long range assault, 2) Ibari was remaining ahead of his comrade in an attempt to handle Yasushi on his own. “Hmph, the arrogance” Yasushi thought to himself of the second scenario as he continued his actions in stride.  

Thus, Yasushi would modify his original plan as it had become slightly interrupted. With his left hand still performing the five seals required for the sound wave, his right hand simultaneously performed the three hand seals required for the blood clone technique. Due to the speed, quantity requirements, and timing of each users’ hand seals, Yasushi’s blood clone would spawn 1 meter directly behind himself at the same time as Ibari’s technique would spawn 5 meters behind Yasushi (4 meters behind the clone). Shortly after, Yasushi himself would proceed with emitting the sound wave from his mouth which would still surge straight towards Ibari and Stark. For reference, the clone would have been created halfway through Yasushi’s original sentence (upon saying “already”) while the sound wave was emitted in unison with the last word of his sentence (“me”). While the wave began to emanate towards his opponents in the previously described fashion, the clone would begin his own technique.

Once the clone was formed, he would rapidly (at full speed) travel several steps back until he was 2 meters total behind Yasushi, all the while formulating the three, necessary hand seals for the Earth Release – Rock Pillar Spears (referencing the C rank, V7 revamp as I cannot access the previous version). Upon completion of the hand seals, the clone would dip down towards the ground and place his hands firmly upon its surface. Once completed, 4 earth spears (2 on his left, 2 on his right; the furthest spears each within 1 meter from the clone’s location) began to originate from the ground and protrude vertically upwards alongside the clone. However once they began to propel from the ground, them along with the clone would begin to sink into the ground.

Through feeling and sensing the disturbance to his clone, Yasushi immediately recognized that Ibari’s handseals performed earlier had spawned a jutsu behind both himself and his clone. And that very same jutsu had caught his clone, who would be subject to an unescapable submersion. A small price to pay, as his clone’s suffering and destruction had aided him with a valuable warning.

“Clever” he thought to himself as he swiftly pieced together a plan to avoid the eminent danger behind him. At full speed, Yasushi focused the chakra in his feet and ran diagonally straight towards a wall of the house (6 meters tall) adjacent to him, which was 2 meters to his left. Upon approaching and making contact with the wall, his feet would first plant themselves firmly upon it and he would in turn begin to run 3 meters up the side of the wall. As he did so, his head still remained turned and focused upon Ibari and Stark while he continued to emit the sound wave from his mouth. Upon reaching 3 meters up the side of the house, or if he would be interrupted along the way, he would re-analyze the situation accordingly to determine if his current path was a safe one. If so, then in his current position, he would find himself out of harm’s way from the swamp of the underworld technique.

Note that during his time running, Yasushi would had sunk his unkept and jagged nails deep into his previous splinter wound, so much so that the once trickle of blood from the cut had now graduated into a continuous stream which ran down his right hand.

At this point Yasushi was closer to Ibari than he was to Stark, yet he also maintained the high ground (for reference Yasushi is 1 meter to Ibari’s right, and perched 3 meters above ground level). Once he ended his motion, he would also end the projected sound wave. If at any point up to this moment had the sound waves reached Ibari or Stark and if they had not shielded themselves from the audible assault, they would find themselves suffering temporary hearing loss. Yet still Yasushi would pause in his current location to see how his opponents might have responded up until this point. It is worth noting that at this point, Yasushi had subtly activated his Ketsuryugan in an attempt to get the genjutsu party started. His eyes would take on a crimson hue whereas their irises were a firm black and the pupils resembled red horizontal dashes, as they awaited on the next move.

(WC = 857. Total: 1399)

Actions & AP:

(So i'm not sure if your jutsu would be able to be activated since if you are using one handed seals to create them and i don't see any indication of you making the mandatory seal of confrontation to activate them, i don't believe they go through)

Ibari was prepared for whatever would come from this and he kept on his toes as he continued to prepare his techniques. When the old man created his blood clone, the technique would ping off of his mental radar as he had intended, sensing that it was going to do a jutsu as well he prepared the mental command for the demonic heads to make their move. For some reason he had miscalculated the distance for his swamp, but since it had caught the clone and stopped its jutsu from coming to fruition he counted it as a win and focused fully back onto the more imminent threat. The male had thought his sonic wave would begin to form, and Ibari could sense the chakra building but soon it dispersed. Maybe it was because of a mental error or he had performed the wrong handseal, no matter the issue Ibari had capitalized on the error. The six heads would converge on the male in a 2 meter cone attack, 2 being on the left, 2 in the middle (one head being a meter up and a meter dow) and two on the right in the same formation. This was to assure if he tried to use the houses or terrain to his advantage it would prove to be a fool's idea. Since the male would have been trying to run to the home, by the time that they would have put their feet onto the wall, the heads closest to him (the left) would preemptively explode cutting off his escape and causing the house to come down as a result. To ensure that the old man would not be able to escape the other heads would explode exactly one second after the others causing a chain explosion that would catch the elder male.

With his mind's eye still active he would be able to see where the old man would go just in case he tried something to escape. Meanwhile the swamp would continue to expand, heading toward the area of the house and extending outward until it had reached its maximum distance. Luckily Ibari would be paying attention to the spreading of the swamp and move as it came closer toward him and his partner. The explosions should have marked the end of the old man but anything was possible.

(391)
AP:
https://www.narutoroleplaygame.com/t40909-minds-eye-of-the-kagura?highlight=Minds+Eye - 20 Upkeep for this post.
https://www.narutoroleplaygame.com/t29257-swamp-of-the-underworld-v6-remake 20 ap upkeep (60 Base, 90 power and speed due to chakra scaling)
705 AP remaining (715 AP due to jugo bl)
4/6 nature charges
(OOC: Had to go through the npcs stat page to realize you were using one handed seals and because you didn't use the seal of confrontation on Sound wave it wouldn't go through)